Algeria's football team is known as the Afnak or the Desert Foxes, and the team is also known as Desert Warriors or Greens, a team of the Algerian Football Federation. Founded on April 13, 1958 during the French occupation of Algeria, four years before the independence of Algeria in 1962, he joined FIFA in 1962 and the African Football Confederation in 1964.
Algeria participated in the World Cup four times in 1982, 1986, 2010 and 2014 qualified for the sixteenth round in 2014, and participated 16 times in the African Nations Cup won the 1990 version hosted at home. He reached the final in 1980, third place twice 1984 and 1988, and fourth place twice 1982 and 2010.
Algerian national team in the World Cup
World Cup 1982
Algeria participated in the 1982 World Cup in the second group, which included the Algerian side of the following teams: "West Germany, Austria and Chile."
Everyone remembers what happened on June 16, 1982 at the Elmolunen Stadium in the Spanish city of Gijon when the Algerian team in their first match faced West Germany and managed to beat it 2-1. Algeria scored two goals: Rabeh Mager and Lakhdar Beloumi. The event was a major surprise and was one of the highlights of the 1982 World Cup, which was then called the Gijon Saga. In his second match against Austria, the Algerian team lost 2-0.
In the third match, which took place on 24 June 1982, the Algerian team faced the Chilean team and managed to win a 3: 2 win. It increased to 4 points (at that time the winning points were only 2 points), but the four points were not Enough to qualify for the Algerian team.
Because of the famous conspiracy against the Algerian team. On the day after Algeria's victory over Chile, West Germany (who had two points by beating Chile and losing to Algeria) against Austria (who had four points in two consecutive wins on Chile and the second on Algeria), where the two teams conspired against the Algerian team to prevent him from qualifying for the next round by the agreement of the elected Western Germany victory over Austria, and that is what happened already ended the match with the victory of West Germany to Austria (1: 0) raising the number of points to 4 points and ranked first .
And qualify the German and Austrian teams to the next round, and eliminated the Algerian national team. Germany's recognition of its plot against Algeria came about 25 years after the incident by players Bringle and Crankle.
Since that incident and because of that famous conspiracy and manipulation of the outcome of the match , FIFA has decided to hold both rounds of the third round of the first round at the same time so as not to conspiracies or manipulation of the results.
World Cup 1986
Algeria qualified for the 1986 World Cup in Mexico and participated in the fourth group, which included strong teams: Brazil, Spain and Northern Ireland. Under the leadership of coach Rabah Saadane, the Algerian team was unable to achieve good results,Because of the problems have been dispersed from the team and this led to a modest return, despite the draw with Northern Ireland (1: 1) and the historic game lost by the Greens against Brazil with a goal came after a mistake in the defense ,With the clarity of the control of the Algerian national team so much that he who overlooks the color of the dress does not differentiate between Algeria and Brazil and then lost Greens to the team of Spain as a result of fatigue and exhaustion. The Algerian team is eliminated.
World Cup 2010
The qualification came after the famous match between Algeria and Egypt in Omdurman
May be considered the worst participation of the Algerian national team in the history of World Cups he played. Algeria came in a group that includes: England, Slovenia and the United States of America, where Algeria came out with a free of goals and one point after a historic draw with England and two losses 1-0 to Slovenia in the first game and America in the last game.
World Cup 2014
Algeria is the only Arab representative at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. They played Group H (8 or H) against Belgium, Russia and South Korea. He collected her first encounter with Belgium and ended with a 2-1 loss despite a good performance by Algeria's players in the match. Their second game against South Korea was a 4-2 win, with Algeria becoming the first African and Arab team to score four goals in one World Cup match since its inception. With this victory, Algeria has strengthened their chances of qualifying for the next stage. Especially after Algeria's 1-1 draw with Russia.
This is what the Algerians have for the first time in their history of the knockout stage. Algeria is thus the third Arab team to qualify for the post-group stage after Morocco, which topped its group in 1986 and Saudi Arabia in 1994.
In the semi-finals, the second-ranked German team struggled to beat Algeria. The end of the game ended 0-0, which called for two more matches, after which the score changed to 2-1 after the Germans scored two goals and the Algerians reduced the score to one goal.
The supporters of the Algerian
The Algerian team has a large fan base worldwide. It includes the whole country as well as the expatriates all over the world. Some of them are in London, some in New York and others in South Africa. The majority of them are in France, and they are also found in the Gulf countries such as Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Lebanon, Egypt and even occupied Palestine.
A new phenomenon has been witnessed in some of the world's stadiums: raising the Algerian flag in the Camp Nou, Santiago Bernabeu, San Siro, Allianz Arena and all of France, and is believed to support the Algerian players active in European leagues.
Advocacy is transmitted to the Internet through forums, sports sites, social networks and others.
These are the top 10 players in the history of the national team, according to an English website
The site "sportsmole" evaluated the best Algerian players throughout history and the classification is as follows:
- Rachid Makhloufi
Rachid Makhloufi is the player who started his career with the French national team before he decided in 1958 to join the FLN team. FIFA did not recognize him. The player who scored five goals with this team spoke about the Algerian national anthem, saying: "The value of this anthem is more precious than all gold Located in the world. "
Antar Yahia played in the French squad for the French national team before leaving behind the Bahamas law which gave him the opportunity to play for Algeria. His goal was to be one of the best players in the Greens, the captain of the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa. He scored six goals with the national team The most important was against the Egyptian team that allowed Algeria to participate in the 2010 World Cup.
- Antar Yahya
Antar Yahia played in the French squad for the French national team before leaving behind the Bahamas law which gave him the opportunity to play for Algeria. His goal was to be one of the best players in the Greens, the captain of the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa. He scored six goals with the national team The most important was against the Egyptian team that allowed Algeria to participate in the 2010 World Cup.
- Ali bin Sheikh
He was one of the great winners against Germany in the 82nd World Cup. In addition, he was wanted at the French club Nantes before the Algerian authorities stopped negotiations.
- hasan lalmas
The best scorer for the Algerian championship several times and a sniper by instinct, the former player of Blouzdad scored three goals out of five goals scored in the African Cup 68.
- Majid Bougherra
A strong defender from San Alexandra, Sheffield and Charlton to the Scottish Rangers, he showed his great abilities against England four years ago as he did with Rangers.
- Gamal Menad
The 1990s were the most beautiful of the times for Gamal Menad in the Algerian national team, especially in the 1990 African Cup. He spent five goals helping the national team achieve the African Cup.
- Saleh Asad
Former Barcelona player and Brazilian star Ronaldinho has been known to elicit 'Flip Flop', but the Algerians say that the first to take the shot is Saleh Asad. The outstanding player who carried the Paris St Germain shirt still has a record in his country for two goals in the 82nd World Cup.
- Abdul-Hafiz Tasfawat:
the best scorer in the Algerian national team thanks to 12 years spent with him,
Unfortunately, the Greens could not qualify for the World Cup. He suffered a serious injury during the 2002 African Cup of Nations, which almost ended his career.
- Lakhdar Beloumi
Is a real hero for the Algerian public, especially as he scored the goal of winning against the German team, which allowed Algeria to win, you get many titles, including the best African player in 1981 in addition to the title of the fourth best African player of the century.
- Rabeh Majer
One of the most famous and talented players in the Algerian public,
Player Porto And the only Arab who managed to win the European Champions League when he scored in the back against Bayern Munich in 1987 in the historic final
The current players of the Algerian national team:
Riad Mehrez:
Sufian Figouli
Yasin Brahimi
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