Soccer World Cup 2010 / Algeria

This article covers the Algerian national football team at the 2010 World Cup .

qualification

The team of coach Rabah Saâdane qualified for the World Cup in South Africa through the qualifying games of the African Football Association CAF .

In the second qualifying round Algeria met in Group 6 on Gambia , Senegal and Liberia . After six games, Algeria rose to round 3 as group winners.

There the Algerian national team met in Group 3 against Egypt , Zambia and Rwanda . After six games, Algeria and Egypt were in first place in the group, but had the same number of points as the Egyptian national team and the same goal difference. Furthermore, the two teams scored the same number of goals in the six qualifying games with nine goals each. In the two direct duels against each other, each team was able to win once and also achieved a goal difference of 3: 3, which is why the World Cup final participant was determined after renouncing the drawing of lots by means of a decision game in a neutral country. Algeria won 1-0 in this game played in Sudan and thus qualified for the World Cup finals.

After the qualifying match between the two teams on November 14, 2009, there had already been serious riots by the fans of both teams. After the play-off on November 18, further attacks by both supporters took place.

Second round

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Algeria	7: 4	10
2	Gambia	6: 3	9
3	Senegal	9: 7	9
4th	Liberia	4:12	3

May 31, 2008 : Senegal - Algeria 1-0 (0-0)

June 6, 2008 : Algeria - Liberia 3-0 (2-0)

June 14, 2008 : Gambia 1-0 Algeria (1-0)

June 20, 2008 : Algeria 1-0 Gambia (1-0)

September 15, 2008 : Algeria 3-2 Senegal (0-0)

October 11, 2008 : Liberia 0-0 Algeria

Third round

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Algeria	9: 4	13
1	Egypt	9: 4	13
3	Zambia	2: 5	5
4th	Rwanda	1: 8	2

March 28, 2009 : Rwanda 0-0 Algeria

June 7, 2009 : Algeria - Egypt 3: 1 (0: 0)

June 20, 2009 : Zambia - Algeria 0: 2 (0: 1)

September 6, 2009 : Algeria - Zambia 1-0 (0-0)

October 11, 2009 : Algeria - Rwanda 3: 1 (2: 1)

November 14, 2009 : Egypt - Algeria 2-0 (1-0)

Playoff

November 18, 2009 : Algeria - Egypt 1-0 (1-0)

Algerian contingent

The Fennecs lost 3-0 in a preparatory game against Ireland at the end of May . On June 6th they beat the national team of the UAE in Fürth with a goal by Ziani 1-0.

As of June 1, 2010, coach Rabah Saâdane has named the following final squad:

No.	Surname	Club before the start of the World Cup	birthday	Games	Gates
goalkeeper
1	Lounès Gaouaoui	ASO Chlef	09/28/1977	0	0	0	0	0
16	Faouzi Chaouchi	ES Sétif	05.12.1984	1	0	0	0	0
23	Raïs M'Bolhi	Slavia Sofia	04/25/1986	2	0	0	0	0
Defender
2	Madjid Bougherra	Glasgow Rangers	07.10.1982	3	0	0	0	0
3	Nadir Belhadj	Portsmouth FC	06/18/1982	3	0	0	0	0
4th	Anthar Yahia	VfL Bochum	03/21/1982	3	0	1	1	0
5	Rafik Halliche	Benfica Lisbon	09/02/1986	3	0	0	0	0
12	Habib Bellaïd	US Boulogne	03/28/1986	0	0	0	0	0
14th	Abdelkader Laïfaoui	ES Sétif	07/29/1981	0	0	0	0	0
18th	Carl Medjani	AC Ajaccio	05/15/1985	0	0	0	0	0
midfield player
6th	Yazid Mansouri	FC Lorient	02/25/1978	0	0	0	0	0
7th	Ryad Boudebouz	FC Sochaux	02/19/1990	3	0	0	0	0
8th	Medhi Lacen	Racing Santander	03/15/1984	3	0	2	0	0
13	Karim Matmour	Borussia M'gladbach	06/25/1985	3	0	0	0	0
15th	Karim Ziani	VfL Wolfsburg	08/17/1982	3	0	0	0	0
17th	Adlène Guedioura	Wolverhampton Wanderers	11/12/1985	3	0	0	0	0
19th	Hassan Yebda	Portsmouth FC	05/14/1984	3	0	2	0	0
20th	Djamel Mesbah	US Lecce	10/09/1984	1	0	0	0	0
21st	Foued Kadir	Valenciennes FC	05.12.1983	3	0	0	0	0
22nd	Djamel Abdoun	FC Nantes	02/14/1986	1	0	0	0	0
striker
9	Abdelkader Ghezzal	AC Siena	05.12.1984	2	0	1	1	0
10	Rafik Saïfi	FC Istres	02/07/1975	2	0	0	0	0
11	Rafik Djebbour	AEK Athens	03/08/1984	2	0	0	0	0
Trainer
	Rabah Saâdane		05/03/1946

Preliminary round

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	United States	4: 3	5
2	England	2: 1	5
3	Slovenia	3: 3	4th
4th	Algeria	0: 2	1

In the preliminary round of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, the Algerian national football team met in the Group C of England , the United States and Slovenia . Algeria was unable to take advantage of the first World Cup on its home continent. Only against England managed to score a goalless 0-0, the other two games were just lost. Without a goal, the Algerians landed on the bottom of the table after the preliminary round and were eliminated.

• Sunday June 13, 2010; 1.30 p.m. in Polokwane
  Algeria - Slovenia 0: 1 (0: 0)

• Friday June 18, 2010; 8:30 p.m. in Cape Town,
  England - Algeria 0-0

• Wednesday June 23, 2010; 16:00 in Tshwane / Pretoria
  USA - Algeria 1: 0 (0: 0)

Web links

• All matches in the preliminary round at a glance ( memento from September 29, 2010 on the Internet Archive ) on FIFA.com
• FIFA World Cup South Africa 2010: Algeria squad ( Memento from June 8, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
• Christoph Sydow: »Mummified Pharaohs«. Press review of the playoff between Algeria and Egypt. In: Zenith Online - The Orient on the Net. Archived from the original on December 5, 2009 ; Retrieved February 25, 2016 . 

Notes and sources

1. ↑ Match report. (No longer available online.) Algerian Football Association, formerly the original ; accessed in 2010 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.