It is clear that the good start of the Algerian national team in the 2025 African Cup of Nations finals made the “Greens” coach, Vladimir Petkovic, change his main goals from participating in the continental competition.
The Algerian national football team had early secured its qualification to the final round of Cannes 2025, which Morocco is hosting from December 21 to January 18, after winning its first two matches for Group E, against the two national teams. Sudan (3-0) last Wednesday and Burkina Faso (1-0), yesterday evening, Sunday. The “Greens” also ensured that they would lead the group regardless of the result of the third and final match, drawing the same group, scheduled for next Wednesday, against the Equatorial Guinea national team.
After he was the national team coach, Vladimir Petkovic had stated before leaving Algeria for Morocco that the main goal of the national team was to overcome the group stage. He had raised his ambitions publicly, in light of his team’s ideal start in the African Championship, so that he indicated, yesterday, Sunday, that he was aiming to win the continental title.
Petkovic said, yesterday evening, Sunday, during Press conference What followed the confrontation with Burkina Faso: “We had a real fight against Burkina Faso… He was a very strong competitor, and he put a lot of pressure on us… Frankly, I was surprised by their great level, and I think they will win many matches if they continue in this way.”
The Swiss coach added: “After we won and qualified first, it can be said that we are a team competing to win the African Cup of Nations.”
It is worth noting that Algeria, after being crowned champion of the African Cup of Nations in 2019 in Egypt, was eliminated on two successive occasions from the first round of the competition, during “Cannes 2021” in Cameroon and “Cannes 2023” in Côte d’Ivoire.
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