A record of the "repulsive responses" .. Gamal Belmadi man of confrontation even in press conferences

Mohamed Amari

Since the first press conference held by coach Gamal Belmadi, it was clear that he would not differ in his style from Gamal Belmadi. As he had connections with rivals in the field of football, he had "strong and strong" positions and responses at press conferences where he faced embarrassing or provocative questions.

With the club and the "combat" he was known for in his career with big teams like Olympique Marseille, Manchester City in the 1990s, or with the Algerian national team at the beginning of the current millennium, Blamadi became the coach of many journalists' On several occasions strongly and fiercely.

Close your phones!
About 10 years have passed since his training, both with Qatari clubs such as Lakhwia and Al-Dahil (established after the unification of Lakhwia Club and the Army Club), or with Qatar's youth and senior teams, and finally with the Algerian national team. As well as in front of journalists' cameras and microphones, stood in front of her with the ferocity of the Paris suburbs where he was born in March 1976 and grew up.

The seriousness and severity of the desert warrior's coach has been reflected on many occasions with journalists. On one occasion, while making a statement to Algerian journalists in the open amidst a stampede and chaos, he decided to withdraw angrily without finishing his press statement.

At a press conference in Algeria, too, and alarmed at the frequent ringing of journalists' phones, he burst into their faces: "Please, we are at a press conference. They have closed your phones. We have told you this before, or I will also open my phone and you will find that I will not have time to talk. You asked for this press conference and asked for information and clarifications, and the time limit is forty minutes, and then you can occupy your phones as you like. This is unbearable. "

You are a journalist and I am a coach
As the press in all countries of the world, a period in which Algerian journalists criticized the choices of coach Belmadi and criticized his focus on professionals and "neglect" of those playing in the Algerian championship was his reply at a press conference that the tournament is weak and not at the level, he is telling the truth.

"I'm going to play, I'll watch the matches, I'll choose the players, but I will not just choose the ones you write about, you're journalists, you see me, I'm a coach and I have a different vision. I took this job just weeks ago and you saw me in the stadium. To European clubs, do your job but let me do my job as well. "

"When the local players are chosen, you ask the professionals, and when the professionals are chosen to ask the locals, stop this double message," he said at the same press conference. During the seminar, and after a few embarrassing questions, he said with a kind of irony: "You have been carefully chosen." One of them asked him: "Does this bother you?" "Never never bothers me."

Foolish witty
It seems that he is applying in the press conferences what former Algerian international player Lakhdar Beloumi said on the day of Cannes Balmadi, sparkling with the Algerian national team between 2000 and 2004. "He uses all his abilities and spares no effort and does not affect," he said. Pressure on him. "

As a brilliant elusive player, a player in European clubs or with the Algerian national team, he is also a fluent and fluent speaker. He is also good at drawing the attention of the opponent and dragging him to a place where he can not be expected. Fixed "are sometimes shocking.

Once asked how the Algerian team would build on international player Riad Mehrez as the centerpiece of the team. "I do not build a team on anyone no matter what, no one can be considered a hub, the team is the same axis, can not be one player the whole team axis."

"You are here to ask questions and I am here to answer. You can ask the question you want and I will answer the answer that I want. We are at a news conference and we are not in court," he told a press conference. "You repeat the same questions at press conferences , I hope you have enough imagination to diversify your questions. "

Senegal squad
The press conferences held by Bellmadi during the current African Nations Championship were not without such answers and "strikes". One of them received a provocative question. The debate tried to direct the journalist to the fact that these kinds of questions were not appropriate. Let him complete, and do not be afraid, I know how to act and how to respond. "

"You have to learn first how to ask questions, there are questions and there are verbal attacks. This question is a verbal assault. I did not understand your question. It is unclear. Maybe because you did not understand what I said. Sport like the rest of your teammates, this is the best way to accept defeat, not verbal abuse on the opponent's coach. "

A Senegalese journalist also tried to lure Balamadi to reveal his squad against Senegal in the group stage. I asked him if there would be any changes in his team. "You want to know about the Algerian team, do not you? I will give you the national team if you want."

He then began to list his expectations for the squad the Senegalese team could play and guess what plan the coach would play and then said: "Now you want a squad?

He also asked a Senegalese journalist to ask him if he expected defeat in the final. "Yes we can really lose in this game, we will face a team that reached the final, and the first African level in the FIFA rankings, and played in the last World Cup, while we were not lucky."

"I understood your question very well, but I answered it the way I want it and not the way you want it," he said sarcastically.

This is the task of the mouse and not your task
"In Algeria's match against Ivory Coast, Rami Ben-Sebaini grabbed the hand of Zaha and Shifa," said a player from the team who played in the semi-finals of the semi-final against Algeria. His face and fell on the ground in an attempt to deceive the referee to punish him with a yellow card, what do you think of this behavior? Did you talk to him? Do you see that this behavior is acceptable in such a tournament?

"I do not think this is the place to talk about such things. If you are trying to pressure us, this is not the right way to do it, try to win us in another way, not in this bad way. The mouse (ruling video assistant), and it is not your job to talk about such things. "

In a press conference following Nigeria's confrontation, a Nigerian journalist repeated his colleague's question. "This is a question you may not like, but I think it has to be put forward. Yesterday at the press conference, my colleague asked you about your player's behavior in the Ivory Coast match. And a coach now do not see that this behavior should be condemned? ".

"What are you asking, my friend, we're talking about the semi-final, are you a Nigerian? You have your coach, they played a very good game, and you talk about these things?"

Numerous positions Balamadi lived with the press revealed his "strict Algerian face," and highlighted a coach who knows how to invest the art of maneuver he practiced in the fields, and move him to the arena of "stampede" with the press to face the troubles of the owners of the trouble profession.