"K" sends two shocks to the Algerian national team.. Will it bid farewell to the African nations early?
Algeria coach Djamel Belmadi.
AFP
Dubai-UAE today.
The Confederation of African Football "C" sent two shocks to the defending champion Algeria after it decided to reject its request to change the stadium for its match against Ivory Coast scheduled (8 pm UAE time) on Thursday in the third and final round of Group D of the African Nations Championship, and also appointed a referee for him. He has bad memories with the Desert Warriors, in one of the national team's most important matches.
And the Algerian team is required to win over its rival Ivory Coast first in order to ensure that it continues its way to defend its title, otherwise it will find itself outside the tournament early, especially since it did not collect from the past two rounds only one point, losing from Equatorial Guinea 1-0 and drawing with Sierra Leone Without goals to bottom group rankings.
It is also possible that the Algerian national team will enter into other accounts that may keep it away from the competition, even if it beats its opponent.
Algeria and Ivory Coast requested that the Jaboma stadium in Doula be changed to the Ahmadou Ahdego stadium in Yaounde, but the African Union refused their request.
And “what makes matters worse” with the Algerian national team is that the “CAF” appointed the Botswana referee, Joshua Bondo, to manage the match with Ivory Coast, which prompted the Algerian Federation to submit an objection, especially since this ruling is linked to bad memories with the “Desert Warriors”.
The referee Bondo had officiated the match between Algeria and Burkina Faso in the World Cup qualifiers scheduled for Qatar 2022, and it ended in a 1-1 draw, as he did not award a correct penalty kick to international star Riyad Mahrez, so that the referee faced heavy criticism from coach Jamal Balmadi and the Algerian public, who expressed his anger.
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