Africa Cup of Nations: 6 coaches passed through the Algerian League

The 35th session of the African Cup of Nations Football Championship, which will be held in Morocco until next January 18, will witness; Participation of six coaches who have previously passed through the Algerian league.

24 teams are competing in the continental competition, including the first national team under the leadership of Bosnian Vladimir Petkovic.

Bommel returns to the African continent

Patrice Baumel is one of the most successful foreign coaches who have registered their presence in the first professional league championship in recent years.

The Frenchman was able to lead Mouloudia Algiers to win the local title in the 2023-2024 season.

Bommel currently supervises the coaching staff for the Angolan national team, as it was drawn in Group Two alongside Egypt, South Africa, and Zimbabwe.

The 47-year-old coach has sufficient experience to raise the challenge in the stadiums of the African continent.

Bommel’s arrival to Angola to assume the position of assistant to Portuguese coach Manuel Josi in 2010 was a real launch for his career after he had only played two experiences in France with Montpellier as a physical trainer and then as an assistant in Nimes.

Things changed for the better when his compatriot Hervé Renard summoned him to join his technical staff.

Through four different experiences, the two men succeeded in winning two continental titles, the first with Zambia in 2012 and the second with Ivory Coast in 2015.

Bruce, Dean of Instructors

Veteran Belgian coach Hugo Bruce (73 years old) is living with the South African national team an experience different from the one he knew in Algeria 11 years ago.

The coach of the Bafana Bafana national team is completing his sixth year, with his contract expiring after the next World Cup.

In previous statements, Bruce revealed his regret for training both Shabab Al-Kabylie and then Nasr Hussein Dey.

The coach who won the 2017 African Cup of Nations with Cameroon did not succeed; His working days in the Algerian league, when he was dismissed from his position by the late president of the youth team, Mohand Sherif Hannachi, to later take over as coach of Nasr Hussein Dey.

Mixed results for the rest

The former coach of USM, the Belgian Bout, was close to embracing the African crown in the 2013 edition in South Africa.

The Burkinabé national team then lost the final of the tournament to Nigeria by a single goal.

Bout, who passed through the Federation in the 2016-2017 season, coached several African teams and is considered the third oldest coach in the current edition of “Cannes” after Bruce (73 years old) and German Gerno Rohr (72 years old).

CR Belouizdad supporters remember well Miguel Angel Gamondi, who coached the team on two occasions (2010-2011 and 2013-2014).

The Argentine almost returned to the club for the third time last summer, before the management chose German Sead Ramovich.

The Tanzanian Federation hired Gamondi a month ago, entrusting him with the task of leading the first team to compete in Group C with Nigeria, Tunisia and Uganda.

It should be noted that Gamondi also supervised USM for a short period (6 matches) during the 2012-2013 season.

JS Saoura terminated the contract of its French coach, Sebastien Dusaber, just two months after his appointment at the start of the 2016-2017 season.

The management of the southern Algerian representative at the time attributed the reason to Dusaber’s preoccupation with secretly negotiating with one of the African teams.

The current coach of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is doing a great job, as he is close to reaching the 2026 World Cup finals.

Next March, the Congolese national team will compete in the global playoff final against the winner of the New Caledonia-Jamaica match.

Malian Eric Schall left Mouloudia Oran club last January, three months after his appointment, after the Nigerian Federation expressed a desire to recruit him to the first team.

Sheil failed to achieve his first goal of qualifying the national team for the 2026 World Cup, after losing the African playoff final to the Democratic Republic of Congo.

While he has no other chance to maintain his position except to win the current African Cup of Nations, where the Green Eagles team participates as runner-up in the last tournament.