If the priority of the Algerian Federation is to find a successor to Djamel Belmadi, the name of Zidane is mentioned again on the Fennecs side.
Algeria is waiting. Two weeks after the traumatic elimination in the group stage of the African Cup of Nations and the announcement of the departure the next day of Djamel Belmadi, the leaders of the Algerian Federation are still looking for the new coach of the Fennecs. And the task does not seem simple for Walid Sadi and his teams.
The president of the Federation dreamed of attracting Zinedine Zidane. But despite his affection for Algeria and his desire to find a bench, almost three years after his hasty departure from Real Madrid, the former playmaker politely rejected the advances of the Fennecs through his agent, Alain Migliacco, who met emissaries of the Federation in a Parisian hotel.
“ It won’t happen, but it’s logical. I had a hard time believing it. I think that the Algerian football federation would have been wrong to deprive itself of this possibility, from the moment when an affect can come into account, with its binationality…” confided Walid Acherchour, RMC columnist to 10sport on this subject. But according to him, another Zidane would be in the Fennecs’ little papers: his son, Luca. “I know that there was also the case of Luca Zidane, his son, who could perhaps choose Algeria.”
He gave priority to the Blues but…
The Team revealed last spring that the second son of Zinedine Zidane, who plays at Eibar, a resident of the Spanish second division since the summer of 2022, had received calls from Algeria to find out if he was interested in joining the selection of the country of origin of one’s paternal grandparents.
Questioned in the columns of the sports daily, the man who played in all the French youth teams up to the U20s and was crowned European champion with the under-17s seemed to give his preference to the Blues. “I would like to experience Ligue 1 one day. It’s a goal, like that of believing in the Blues. I am ambitious. I am a competitor. I know what I want “then confided the 25-year-old doorman.
