Abdelhamid Kermali

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Abdelhamid Kermali (born April 24, 1931 in Sétif, Algeria) is a former Algerian footballer and football manager of the Algerian national team.

He played in several Algerian clubs like USM Alger as a striker before leaving for France to play for FC Mulhouse, AS Cannes and the Olympique Lyonnais.

As a manager, he was the head of the Algerian national team during the 1990 African Cup of Nations hosted in Algeria. He is known in particular to have refused to select the young Zinedine Zidane to play for the Algerian national team in early 1990's under the pretext that he was not fast enough.[1] This rumor was dismissed by Zidane himself saying it was not possible for it to happen as he had already played for France before. [2]

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Much of the content of this article comes from the equivalent French-language wikipedia article, accessed December 1 2006.

  1. ^ The scarred French messiah
  2. ^ Le Buteur magazine May 7th, 2005
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