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Interference of Al Jazeera Sport: Amman called the channel to provide evidence
Jordan Sunday called on Qatari satellite channel Al-Jazeera to provide evidence to substantiate its accusations against the Kingdom, to whom the channel reproaches of having scrambled the broadcasting of the World Cup football in June.
Madjid Bougherra selected in the team of the week
ALGIERS - Algerian international defender of Glasgow Rangers (Scottish Div 1), Madjid Bougherra, was retained in the team of the Champions League in Europe, after the 2nd day, Dzfoot site reported Saturday. ...
Professional league (Ligue 1 - 2e d): results and ranking
ALGIERS - Partial results and ranking after the second day of the football professional Championship, League I, played Friday night: ...
Lemouchia: "I didn't apologized to the FAF, I solved my problem with Saadane"
Algiers- The Algerian Football Federation (FAF) confirmed yesterday what has been reported in our previous editions about the convening of the midfielder of ES Setif, Khaled Lemouchia to join the national team for the training camp, scheduled October 3 in preparation for the match against the Republic of Central Africa for the qualifications of the CAN 2012....
Canoe Kayak: Arab championship: 5 athletes to represent Algeria
ALGIERS- Five Algerian athletes will take part in the second edition of the Arab Canoe Kayak championship (senior men and women), scheduled from October 1 to 3 in Tunisia, National Technical Director Djamel Hamoui announced Wednesday. ...
Benchikha wants Lemouchia back, but FAF requires his apology first
Algiers- The national coach Abdelhak Benchikha wants to convene officially the midfielder of the « Greens », Khaled Lemouchia. The Algerian Football Federation (FAF) has forwarded to the President of ESSetif, Serrar, the decision to reintegrate Lemouchia in national team. ...
Wolverhampton - Algerian Guedioura suffered a fractured tibia
The Algerian midfielder of Wolverhampton, Adlene Guedioura, suffered a fractured tibia on Sunday at his club's defeat against Aston Villa (2-1) and could be out for six months, said Monday the English club....
Death of the President of MC Oran football club
Algiers- The President of the Mouloudia Club of Oran, Kacem Belimam, who had been evacuated in serious condition in the emergency of Oran Hospital last Thursday morning, died this evening as a result of his illness....
Raouraoua will sue Hannachi in court
Algiers- Sources close to the Algerian Football Federation (FAF), and according to "al arabia.net", the Federation has undertaken measures enabling her to institute legal proceedings against Hannachi....
Algeria Championship - 1st day results
ALGIERS - Results of the 1st day Algeria football championship, played Friday and Saturday:...
President of Wifak of Collo football club escaped a terrorist attack
The President of Wifak of Collo, Hedibi Messaoud, has miraculously escaped an assassination attempt by a terrorist group on the national highway 132, near Laouinet....
The "General" wearing blue Shanghai, loves to play cards
Algiers- General when it comes to football but a simple and modest man in everyday life. This is how appears the new national coach, Abdelhak Benchikha, whom Ennahar met at the Cafe des Sports, near El Biar stadium of....
First professional football championship: 16 teams on the line of departure
ALGIERS - Sixteen teams will be Friday and Saturday on the starting line of the first professional football championship of the Algerian League 1, with the legitimate ambition to win the title of this version, introduced after 47 years of amateurism....
CAN-2012/Qualif. - Morocco: Rally in Amsterdam before Tanzania
Moroccan football selection will meet Monday in Amsterdam before leaving for Tanzania, where she will play a qualifying match to the African cup CAN-2012 October 8, said Friday the assistant coach of the Lions of the Atlas, French Dominique Cuperly....
Hannachi: "We will boycott the championship, if all the clubs agree"
Algiers- The strong man of JS Kabylia (JSK), Mohand Cherif Hannachi has opened again fire, on the sidelines of the signing of sponsorship with Nedjma, on the president of the Algerian Football Federation (FAF), Mohammed Raouraoua....
Tunisia - Sanctions against three clubs and a coach
Tunisian League of Professional Football (LNFP) Wednesday announced sanctions against three clubs in the national championship and a coach for throwing smoke bombs and indiscipline. ...
Zidane is "not really for the video referee"
Zinedine Zidane is "not really for the video referee," which would make matches "endless", according to remarks issued Wednesday on TV5 Monde....
Raouraoua plays with fire!
Algiers- the president of the Algerian Football Federation (FAF), Mohamed Raouraoua persists and opens several fronts in the sports’ milieu by a number of problems he himself created, because of lack of a good vision and mastery of football affairs in our country. ...
Season 2010/11: Raouraoua’s message to the clubs on the eve of kickoff
ALGIERS - President of the Algerian Football Federation (FAF), Mr. Mohamed Raouraoua sent a letter to the clubs, just before the start of the first professional championship League 1 and 2 reported Tuesday FAF on its website....
Karim Ziani unavailable for 2 to 3 months
Algerian international Karim Ziani of Wolfsburg will have to undergo hip surgery and will be sidelined for two to three months, announced Tuesday the 1st Division club. ...
JSK, closer to the objective
Algiers- JS Kabylie will face Mazembe Englebert (DR Congo) for the semi-finals of the African Champions League. This is guaranteed to finish second in the group behind Esperance of Tunis, which will meet in the semifinals the Egyptian Al-Ahly of Cairo, ranked second behind JSK....
Champions League: Heartland Nigeria - JS Kabylie (1-1)
JS Kabylia and Heartland of Nigeria have made a draw (1-1), Sunday in Owerri (Nigeria), in a match counting for the 6th and final day of group stage (group B) of the African Champions League....
Benchikha repeats the same errors as Saadane
Algiers- Names change but not the policy. That is what we have seen in the case of the new national coach after the establishment of the list of players for the match against the Republic of Central Africa....
The General summoned 23 players for the match CAR-Algeria
The new National Coach, Abdelhak BENCHIKH selected twenty three (23) players for the match Central African Republic (CAR) - Algeria, taking place October 10, 2010 in Bangui and counting for the second day of qualifying for the CAN 2012....
Benchikha: "Stop calling me General, we are not in a barrack"
Algiers- The new national coach, Mr. Abdelhak Benchikha said he had not yet signed a contract with the Algerian Football Federation (FAF), although the latter has formally announced the designated the "General" as he is called, at the head of the national team until 2012, date of the preliminaries of the CAN-2012. ...
Algeria at the 35th place: a strange FIFA Ranking
The Algerian national team has tumbled in the monthly ranking of FIFA to the 35th place, and that by losing two seats. Last month, the Fennecs ranked 33rd. ...
Benchikha: "I am a man of challenges"
Algiers- The new coach of the national football team, Mr. Abdelhak Benchikha, said that the urgency right now is to win the next game against Central Africa, scheduled for October 10 in Bangui, accounting for the 2nd Day Playoff CAN-2012. ...
FIFA fines Rafik Saifi
FIFA imposed a fine of 3,000 Swiss francs (2,300 euros), to the Algerian striker Rafik Saifi for slapping a journalist at the end of the game Algeria-United States (0-1) at the 2010 World Cup, we learnt Wednesday from the governing body of football....
Rafael Nadal wins the U.S. Open
The Spaniard Rafael Nadal, world No.1, beat Serbia's Novak Djokovic, head of series No.3, 6-4, 5-7, 6-4, 6-2 Monday to win his first U.S. Open, the only one of the four grand slams that was missing to his prize list....
Benchikha appointed new Coach of the national team until 2012
Algiers- Abdelhak Benchikha was appointed yesterday to the post of national coach until 2012, in replacement of Mr. Rabah Saadane who had resigned according to the site of the Algerian Football Federation (FAF)....
Abdelhak Benchikha new coach of national team
Algiers- The Algerian Football Federation has appointed Mr. Abdelhak Benchikha to the post of national coach in place of Mr. Rabah Saadane who had resigned....
Champions League - winners
Champions League winners (C1, European Cup of Champions Clubs until 1992) and record of victories...
The assassins of Hisham Lounès arrested
Algiers- The public prosecutor at the court of El Harrach ordered Sunday the remand of two minors and a youth of about twenty, suspected of killing the player of the Junior team of El Harrach, Hicham Lounès, which took place last Thursday and has upset the whole region of Eucalyptus....
UNAF Cups: Draw on Tuesday in Tunis
General Secretariat of the North African Football Union (UNAF) announces that the ceremony of drawing lots of semi-finals for the next edition of UNAF clubs and club champions cup winners, will be held on Tuesday September 14 at 7 pm in Tunis....
Heavy weight: Vladimir Klitschko wants to face David Haye
Ukrainian Vladimir Klitschko, IBF, WBO and IBO heavyweight champion wanted Sunday after his victory against Nigeria's Samuel Peter, to face Briton David Haye, the reigning WBA, who begins to "tire him with his provocations."...
Champions League: ES Setif 2 ES Tunis 2
Despite the confidence of the Italian Coach of the Entente Setif Sports (ESS), Giovanni Solinas, about the ability of players to challenge and win the match which opposed tem to Esperance of Tunis...
Algeria eliminated from CAN 2011 U17
The national team was eliminated Saturday from the African Cup of Nations CAN 2011 qualifiers after a 0-0 draw achieved at Dar El Beida Stadium in Algiers against Gabon for the return phase meeting of the first qualifying round of CAN 2011. ...
Lounes Hicham, El Harrach junior team player murdered
The local resident of "Erradio", in the Municipality of Eucalyptus (Algiers) has been shaken following the assassination yesterday of the junior team player from USM El Harrach, Lounès Hicham, 15 years old. ...
World-2010 (- 90 kg): Algerian judokas miss their entry
Algerian judokas Amar Benikhlef and Lyes Bouyakoub engaged in the under 90 kg, could not go beyond Friday's second round of the 2010 World Championships in judo who compete in Tokyo, Japan....
