Two days before their entry in the African Cup of Nations, Djamel Belmadi’s Greens have arrived in Douala, Cameroon.
If the grand opening ball of the 2022 Africa Cup of Nations (in reality 2021 postponed to 2022) will take place today with the match Cameroon – Burkina Faso, Algeria, it will not enter the competition in the competition. until the day after tomorrow, facing Sierra Leone (2 p.m. Paris time).
Les verts bien arriver a Cameroune, que les victoires s’enchaine inshAllah 🇩🇿 #CAN2021 pic.twitter.com/1Kklx9UusF
- AlgNews (Alg_News) 9 يناير 2022
Following a strange preparatory stage in Doha, obviously disturbed by the covid-19 pandemic and by the reluctance of European clubs to release their players, also following the only friendly match played and won against Ghana (3-0), that against With Gambia having been canceled, the National Team took the plane yesterday to Douala, second largest city in Cameroon. The Greens will stay there in anticipation of their three meetings against Sierra Leone, Equatorial Guinea (January 16) and Côte d’Ivoire (January 20).
The Algerian Football Federation decided to take organizational and security measures to fortify the residence Algerian National Team In the Cameroonian city of Douala, during the period of participation of the “greens” in the Africa Cup of Nations, in order to avoid mixing and exposing his players to any possibility of infection with the Corona virus, and specifically its highly contagious mutant “Omicron”, in order to avoid any unpleasant surprise that might confuse coach Djamal Belmadi’s papers.
قرر المنتخب الجزائري البقاء في فندق “أونومو” بمدينة دوالا ، بعد أن وضعت السلطات الكاميرونية عددا محدودا من الفنادق تحت تصرف الفرق المشاركة في “كان” ، المشجعين والمنظمين على حد سواء ، مما يعني أن ستكون هذه الفنادق متاحة للفرق والمشجعين والضيوف العاديين في نفس الوقت ، على عكس ما يحدث في العديد من المسابقات الكبرى حيث يتم عادةً تخصيص فندق كامل لكل فريق للحفاظ على تركيز اللاعبين.