L'insistance des Algériens à parler dans leur langue officielle

Bravo Djamel Belmadi and his player Youssef Attal, as well as some journalists, CAF officials after speaking in Arabic during the press conference held on the eve of the upcoming confrontation against Equatorial Guinea on Sunday for the second round of the 2021 African Nations Cup.

CAF officials had demanded and prevented Belmadi and the players from speaking in Arabic during the press conference, before facing Sierra Leone in the first round. Earlier, CAF media officials rejected Djamel Belmadi and Algerian journalists’ statements during the last press conferences of the Algerian national team in Arabic.

This sparked a storm of criticism in Algeria, specifically on social media platforms, which made the “Desert Warriors” coach and the Algerian media respond in their own way to this decision by speaking in Arabic during the press conference he held, today, Saturday, to talk about a match. Equatorial Guinea.

Although the Confederation of African Football officials, during the press conference held by Jamal Belmadi, did not provide translation service in Arabic, and were satisfied with providing translation in French and English, the media coordinator of the Algerian national team, Saleh Bey Abboud, and Jamal Belmadi translated for other foreign media present at the conference. The journalist, in a move that highlights the insistence of Algerians to speak in their official language.

شَـعْـبُ الْجَـزَائِـرِ مُــسْــلِــمٌ ….. وَإِلىَ الْـعُـرُوبَةِ يَـنْتَـسِـبْ

مَنْ قَــالَ حَـادَ عَـنْ أَصْـلِـهِ ….. أَوْ قَــالَ مَـاتَ فَـقَـدْ كَـذَبْ

An Algerian journalist translated a question into Spanish

The translation services that the Algerians carried out during this press conference did not stop there, and went beyond it to an Algerian journalist translating a question for a journalist from Equatorial Guinea to Djamel Belmadi that was asked in Spanish, the official language spoken by the people of Equatorial Guinea, which confirms the many shortcomings in How the Confederation of African Football has organized press conferences since the beginning of the tournament.