A huge France-Algeria on the program?

At a time when diplomatic relations between France and Algeria are more and more tense, a football meeting between the two countries, intimately linked since French colonization in this Maghreb country for 132 years, seems difficult to organize. The two sports federations have no interest in programming a friendly meeting which could cause serious tensions both at the Stade de France and Algiers (or Oran and Tizi Ouzou).

France and Algeria clashed only once in history, during a meeting that marked the spirits. On October 6, 2001 in the enclosure of Saint-Denis, the Blues World Champions in title with Zinedine Zidane welcomed the Greens led by Djamel Belmadi in a deleterious atmosphere. La Marseillaise was copiously hooked and, above all, while the score was 4-1 for the locals, an impressive invasion of land in the 74th minute put an end to the meeting. Since then, the two selections had to meet in November 2009 but France played its 2010 World Cup dam against Ireland and Algeria the famous support match against Egypt.

It is precisely at the next 2026 World Cup that the two teams could find themselves if they are on the appointment. The Blues of Didier Deschamps will start their eliminatory campaign next September, with Ukraine, Iceland and Azerbaijan as opponents. It will be necessary to finish to qualify for the tournament organized in Canada, the United States and Mexico. The Greens now led by Vladimir Petkovic have well left in the Africa zone. They just beat Mozambique 5-1, their dolphin, to take the head of the group alone. The qualifier will have to be validated in the last four games against Botswana, Guinea, Somalia and Uganda.

What potential opponents for France at the World Cup?

Second in the FIFA ranking behind Argentina, France will be part of the head of the heads of the starters alongside the three organizing countries as well as the Albiceleste, Spain, England, Brazil, Portugal, Belgium and Italy. So many importance selections as Kylian Mbappé and his teammates would avoid during the draw. If all these beautiful people qualify. It will then be necessary to avoid Germany, which will be the scarecrow of the second hat according to the projections of the X account

Football Rankings. Morocco semi-finalist of the 2022 World Cup and Senegal appear virtually in this second hat.

It is therefore in hat 3 that we find Algeria among the 12 possible teams. The FIFA ranking is such that France has one in two chance to come across an African qualified in this pot, in this case Egypt, Côte d'Ivoire, Tunisia, Cameroon and South Africa in addition to the Algerians. For this first World Cup at 48 (12 groups of 4 and then of the 16th finals), Africa will have nine representatives pending the victory of an African selection during the intercontinental dams. Ghana and DR Congo would thus be part of the fourth hat in the event of qualification for the 2026 World Cup.