ALGERIA
Coach: Vahid Halilhodžić
Road to Brazil: Nr.1 in africa-gr.H
Beat Burkina Faso in Play-off.
Honours: none
WC-app.: Four (Incl.this) First WC: 1982 Association:
www.faf.dz
Algeria has
qualified for four
World Cups in 1982,
1986, 2010, and
2014. Algeria has
also won the African
Cup of Nations once
in 1990, when they
hosted the
tournament. The team
caused one of the
great World Cup
upsets in 1982
tournament with a
2–1 victory over
reigning European
Champions and later
WC-finalist West
Germany. Algeria
have though never
reach the scond
round of a World
cup.
The traditional
rivals of Algeria
have been Morocco,
Tunisia and Egypt.
However, more
recently, Egypt has
become the main
rival after a number
of incidents
involving the two
teams, most recently
during the 2010 FIFA
World Cup
qualification, in
which Algeria
defeated Egypt 1-0
in a tense
tiebreaker in
Omdurman, Sudan to
qualify to the World
Cup.
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