The Algerian national team begins its preparations to confront Somalia – New Algeria

Today, Monday evening, the Algerian national football team, at the National Technical Center of Sidi Moussa, will start in the southern suburb of the capital, in anticipation of his last two matches for the African qualifiers for the 2026 Football World Cup.

Algeria is at the top of the seventh African liquidation group of the 2026 World Cup, with 19 points, 4 points behind its direct ancestors, Uganda and Mozambique. Al -Khidr has become only three points to win the qualification visa to the FIFA World Cup, scheduled for next summer, in the United States of America, Mexico and Canada.

It is very likely that the national team will win these three points next Thursday when the Somalia team will meet Miloud Stadium, “Bouhran”, by drawing the ninth round of the qualifiers, before facing the Uganda team on October 14th at the “Hussein Ait Ahmed” stadium in Tizi Ouzou.

The “Al -Khidr” team will take place, on Monday evening, its first collective share in one of the fields of the Sidi Moussa Center, and it will be followed in two stakes today, one morning and the evening, which is allocated by the technical staff of the two technicians and the psychological, before Riad joined Rejected And his colleagues in Oran next Wednesday for a single training session, on the eve of the decisive match against the host Somalia team.

After the end of this match, which may know the official qualification of the Algerian national team to the World Cup 2026 finals, the team will return to the Sidi Moussa Center, to continue preparing for the last match of the qualifiers, against the Ugandan national team.

The national team coach, Vladimir Betkovic, had invited to participate in this camp for26 players4 of them are new faces. The matter is related to Luca Zidane, the goalkeeper of the Spanish club Granada, who recently changed his sporting nationality from French to Algerian, the right back Rafik Ballali (Hilas Verona), defender Samir Sharqi (French Paris Club) and the back of the families Mahdi Dorfal (Barry Italian). The national voter also returned to the ranks of “Al -Khader”, the two young attackers, Badr al -Din Bounaani, and the Secretary of Shayakha.

It is worth noting that the Somalia team chose to receive its Algerian counterpart in Diyar, “its guest”, because it was not available on approved stadiums by the International Football Association.