50th Anniversary of the FLN team
After the promulgation of the decisions of the Soummam Congress, including the creation of organizations under the National Liberation Front, such as the General Union of Algerian Muslim Students and the General Union of Algerian Workers, created respectively in July 1955 and February 1956, the National Liberation Front deemed it necessary to set up a sports organization which bears its name and which will be its ambassador in the authorities international.
The decision was therefore made to create a football team made up of Algerian players playing in the French championship. The National Liberation Front launched an appeal to all Algerian players asking them to join the ranks of the Revolution.
Following this call, the Algerian players left France towards Tunisia. Upon their arrival on April 12, 1958, the National Liberation Front football team was officially formed.
The FLN team formed just two months before the sixth edition of the Football World Cup, organized in Sweden in 1958, received significant media attention on the international scene.
After its formation under the leadership of “Boumezrag”, the FLN team represented the Algerian cause at the international level. She participated in 91 meetings in the following capitals: Tunis, Tripoli, Rabat, Baghdad, Oman, Moscow, Beijing, Budapest, Warsaw, Belgrade, Hanoi and Prague, like other capitals which made it possible to raise the Algerian flag high. Over the 91 tournaments, the FLN team recorded 67 victories, 15 draws and 07 defeats.
She continued to play her militant sporting role until independence to constitute the first core of the Algerian national football team.
The FLN team was made up of the following players:
MAKHLOUFI Rachid – BOURTAL Hacène – CHABRI Hacène – HADDAD Said – BENTIFOUR Abdelaziz – MAZZOUZ Abdelkader – BOUMEZRAG Mohamed El Mokrani – BENFEDDA Ali – ZITOUNI Mustapha – BOUCHOUK Abdelhamid – ZOUBA Abdelhamid – MAOUCHE Mohamed – BOUBAKEUR Abderrahmane – KERROUM Abdelkrim – BRAHIMI Said – BOUCHACH Cherif – DOUDOU Ali - BOUCHACH Hocine – BOURICHA Mohamed – BEKHLOUFI Keddour KERMALI Abdelhamid – DEFNOUN Dahmane – SOUKANE Mohamed – ARIBI Mokhtar – OUALIKENE Mokrane – SOUKANE Abderrahmane – ROUAI Amar – OUDJANI Ahmed – IBRIR Smaine – IBRIR Abderrahmane – HEDHOUD Abdallah said SETTATI – AMARA Said and gentlemen TALEB Chaib, ALEM Mohamed and FERROUKHI Mustapha as political leaders.
The decision was therefore made to create a football team made up of Algerian players playing in the French championship. The National Liberation Front launched an appeal to all Algerian players asking them to join the ranks of the Revolution.
Following this call, the Algerian players left France towards Tunisia. Upon their arrival on April 12, 1958, the National Liberation Front football team was officially formed.
The FLN team formed just two months before the sixth edition of the Football World Cup, organized in Sweden in 1958, received significant media attention on the international scene.
After its formation under the leadership of “Boumezrag”, the FLN team represented the Algerian cause at the international level. She participated in 91 meetings in the following capitals: Tunis, Tripoli, Rabat, Baghdad, Oman, Moscow, Beijing, Budapest, Warsaw, Belgrade, Hanoi and Prague, like other capitals which made it possible to raise the Algerian flag high. Over the 91 tournaments, the FLN team recorded 67 victories, 15 draws and 07 defeats.
She continued to play her militant sporting role until independence to constitute the first core of the Algerian national football team.
The FLN team was made up of the following players:
MAKHLOUFI Rachid – BOURTAL Hacène – CHABRI Hacène – HADDAD Said – BENTIFOUR Abdelaziz – MAZZOUZ Abdelkader – BOUMEZRAG Mohamed El Mokrani – BENFEDDA Ali – ZITOUNI Mustapha – BOUCHOUK Abdelhamid – ZOUBA Abdelhamid – MAOUCHE Mohamed – BOUBAKEUR Abderrahmane – KERROUM Abdelkrim – BRAHIMI Said – BOUCHACH Cherif – DOUDOU Ali - BOUCHACH Hocine – BOURICHA Mohamed – BEKHLOUFI Keddour KERMALI Abdelhamid – DEFNOUN Dahmane – SOUKANE Mohamed – ARIBI Mokhtar – OUALIKENE Mokrane – SOUKANE Abderrahmane – ROUAI Amar – OUDJANI Ahmed – IBRIR Smaine – IBRIR Abderrahmane – HEDHOUD Abdallah said SETTATI – AMARA Said and gentlemen TALEB Chaib, ALEM Mohamed and FERROUKHI Mustapha as political leaders.