Algeria: Belmadi, a tyrant? New revelations

After the new disappointment of the Algerian team, exited in the first round of CAN 2024, coach Djamel Belmadi is under fire from critics, who is notably criticized for communication considered disastrous.

“A climate of terror”

Belmadi, who led Algeria to the coronation during CAN 2019, was not spared the day after a pitiful elimination that the supporters found very difficult to swallow. “What we saw at the press conference after the match against Mauritania was Djamel Belmadi in the text. It is: ‘The enemies of the people, the enemies of Algeria against me. I am alone in the face of the world. I defend Algeria. You, you don’t defend Algeria’, thunders journalist Hamza Rahmani at the microphone of RMC, he who comments on CAN 2024 on beIN Sports. Ok, maybe not all analysis or questions are good to hear. But for years, Djamel Belmadi has been riding the 2019 African Cup, which he won brilliantly. Since then, he has created a climate of terror during press conferences. »

“His press conferences are soporific. For what? Because no Algerian journalist dares to get into him on sporting issues, continues the African football specialist. When we ask him about the game, he doesn’t respond with the game. He will say: ‘Excuse me, Mr. Journalist, you don’t have the physique of a former football player, I imagine that you’ve never played football’. And when these same journalists talk outside of football, he will say: ‘Ah yes, but you never talk about the field, you never talk about sport, what interests you are the side effects’. We saw it again this time. It’s the same refrain, ‘Such a journalist is against me’… Talk about balloons! Talk about football! Belmadi never does it…”