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While his name is mentioned by some to take the reins of the Algeria team, Zinedine Zidane would have been rejected by the Fennecs when he was a player.
Zinedine Zidane new coach of Algeria? Some people dream of it. This is particularly the case of Nabil Djellit. “ A challenge worthy of him », Wrote the France Football journalist, recalling that“at the end of his career, Zidane chose, with an emotional visit to his parents’ land, to reconnect with his roots. »
The Marseillais may well be looking for a new challenge, but it is nevertheless unlikely that he will be seduced by the Fennecs. And all the more so since, according to some Algerians, the national team would have failed the former Bordeaux player when he was a player. “ They said he was slow and players like him, we have 100 of them in Algeria, he played in the French team, while he wanted to join the national team, they said former Algerian international Rafik Djebbour in comments relayed by Fennecfootball. Algeria won the African Cup, and then we had players and they didn’t choose Zidane. I don’t think it would have been good for Zidane. We also witnessed the civil war. Our thoughts were not on football.”
This thesis was also supported by Stanislas Frenkiel, lecturer in sports history at the Faculty of Sports of Artois, “Zidane came to Algeria to do a test with the junior national team. He was rejected by the manager at the time because he was considered too frail. he confided in comments reported by La Voix du Nord in the spring of 2022. Questioned on the subject during his visit to Algeria in December 2006, Zinedine Zidane was content to explain “having made all the categories in the French team, from minors to seniors”.
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