When coach Vladimir Petkovic spent his contract with the Algerian Football Federation, in March 2024, he agreed with the president of “FAF”, Walid Sadi, to achieve several main goals.
The Swiss Petkovic assumed the presidency of the technical staff of the Algerian national football team, at the beginning of March 2024, succeeding Djamel Belmadi, whose duties were ended after the early exclusion of the “Greens” team from the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations finals, which took place at the beginning of 2024, in Côte d’Ivoire.
The contract that Petkovic signed with FAF included several clauses, including the necessity of achieving several main goals and determining the value of the financial grant for success in each mission.
So far, Petkovic has succeeded in achieving two main goals. They qualify the Algerian national team to the finals of the two African Cup of Nations football competitions “It was 2025” And the 2026 World Cup. He is close to entering the fray of achieving the third goal, when he participates in the final session of the African Cup of Nations, scheduled in Morocco from December 21 to January 18 next. The national team will compete in the first round of the African competition within the group, along with the teams of Burkina Faso, Sudan and Equatorial Guinea.
Petkovic is required to achieve better than his predecessor
It does not include the contract concluded between Vladimir Petkovic and the Algerian Football Federation, any clause that explicitly speaks about the role that the Swiss coach must reach in the “Cannes 2025” finals, but only set for him the task of “going as far as possible in the competition.” This sentence can be given several interpretations, but the common point in all possible interpretations is, without a doubt, passing the first round.
If the Algerian national team succeeds in qualifying for the second round of the “Cannes 2025” finals, it will be a better achievement than the results achieved in the two previous final rounds, “Cannes 2021” in Cameroon and “Cannes 2023” in Côte d’Ivoire, when the “Greens” left the competition in the first round.
It is noteworthy that if Petkovic succeeds in leading the Algerian national team to win the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations, he will receive a grant of 200,000 euros from FAF, in addition to the one he received after the team qualified for the final tournament, which is estimated at 50,000 euros.
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