Algerian Journalist Slams Football Federation and National Coach Amid U17 Team’s Defeat

Hafid Derradji is not happy with the FAF leaders and national team coach Hafid Derradji who have remained indifferent to the online lynching of which U17 coach Arezki Remmane is a victim, and whom he holds responsible for the current situation of Algerian football. "It’s not possible to make the players or the coaches take the blame when there have been three federation presidents in three years and when the national coach interferes in the choice of who chairs the FAF," he explains in a contribution published on the Arabic-language website Algérie Maintenant without naming Djamel Belmadi.

The beIN Sports journalist cited "parties who have influenced the members of the FAF general assembly to vote in favor of a candidate (Djahid Zefizef, EDITOR’S NOTE) responding to Djamel Belmadi’s wish." He also accused the former president Kheïreddine Zetchi without naming him of being behind the bankruptcy of the Algerian Football Federation.