Algeria's Islam Slimani dreams of the 2022 World Cup
Islam Slimani.
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No longer called up for selection since November 2019, Islam Slimani is finding playing time with Lyon.
Recruited last month by Olympique Lyonnais, Islam Slimani scored his first goal in his new colors Tuesday, February 9 in the Coupe de France against AC Ajaccio (5-1).
For the winner of CAN 2019, the main selection objective remains the Next World Cup in Qatar in 2022. “We are winning a series of victories, we are on a good dynamic.
I hope that we will continue like this to obtain a qualification for the World Cup ”, suggests the one who had participated in the epic of the Greens in Brazil in 2016. The qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup begin next June for the Africa zone .
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