Coach Aziz Doufikar, who was the first Moroccan player to recognize the Dutch Football League, revealed that he saved the Atlas Lions star Hakim Ziash from deviation after his father's death, and returned him to practice the ball after neglecting it and became involved with bad friends in the way of alcohol and drug addiction.
Ziash admitted to the Dutch newspaper "De Volkskrant" that he suffered early when his father died when he was ten years old, leaving his studies and neglecting to play football, and engaged in an unhealthy life saved by his former coach Doviegar.
Ziyash said that his father "was suffering from a chronic and terminal illness that made him unable to walk and lost the ability to eat and speak, until he died in the middle of one night while I was sleeping with him on the edge of his bed."
"And at three in the morning I heard the family crying after my father passed away, to stop going to school, and leave everything behind, even football."
It is noteworthy that the English club Chelsea included Ziash from his Dutch club Ajax Amsterdam, starting next summer, for 40 million euros.