Press reports have questioned again the historical streak of unbeaten Algeria, which currently stands at 35 games in a row, and only two games away from the world record that it holds. Italy national team With 37 games, Algerian National Team Second place in the list of teams that have achieved the best unbeaten streak in history, along with my national team Spain And Brazil.
The skepticism came this time through the novel by the American magazine “Sporting News” specialized in “baseball”, and one of its journalists (Kyle Boone), prepared a report on the historical series of the Algerian team without loss, and its approach to breaking the world record, based on sources who said She is from FIFA, and she assured him that the current unbeaten streak does not exceed 25 matches in a row.
Calculating a defeat for the Algerian national team for local players
The American journalist returned to the loss of the Algerian national team to the local players 0-3 against its Moroccan counterpart, on October 19, 2019 in the qualifiers for the African Championship for local players, and said that his sources consider this loss in the series of the first Algerian team and its coach, Jamal Belmadi.
The correspondent in Algeria, quoting analysts concerned with sports affairs, confirmed that this defeat cannot be considered in the first team’s record, because they are two separate teams with different coaches and different players, with evidence that the first team, led by Mahrez and Belmadi, played 4 days before that date a friendly match in France against Colombia and won 3-0.
It seems that the American magazine relied on the same sources that sparked great controversy during the FIFA Arab Cup Qatar 2021When the official account of the International Football Association “FIFA” on “Twitter” published a tweet talking about a number that did not correspond to the number of the real series of the Algerian national team, before it was forced to withdraw it after the intervention of the Algerian Football Federation officials, and “FIFA” considered what happened at the time just jurisprudence. He is responsible for managing his official Twitter account.
A report full of inaccuracies.. Calculating matches and disregarding others
And winwin sources quoted that the report of the American magazine, which said that it relied on sources in FIFA, neglected to count all the matches of the Algerian national team and was satisfied with only some of them. The counting began after calculating the results of the first team led by Djamel Belmadi and some matches of the reserve team led by Majid Bougherra, which raises more than one question mark about the seriousness of this report.
For example, this report calculated the result of one friendly match for Algeria’s reserve team against Liberia in the series, which was held on June 17, 2021, without calculating the results of other matches for this team against Syria, Burundi and Benin (won), and against New Zealand (lost). Before participating in the Arab Cup with two goals to one, although these friendlies are classified by FIFA, the same classification as the Liberia match. He also did not count the results of the reserve team in the Arab Cup with six consecutive victories that led to the crowning of the title.
