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Ex-Algerian Football Manager Claims Algeria Let Egypt Win African Cup 2010 Semi-Final
In what is sure to be the craziest news in football today, former Algerian football manager Rabah Saadâne has revealed that the reason why Egypt beat Algeria 4-0 in the 2010 African Cup of Nations semi-final is because Algeria let them win.
“The match was 100% gifted to Egypt,” claimed Rabah Saâdane on an Algerian TV show.
“I will explain it to you, they sent me the message to lose to Egypt and I declined to do so. They told me that our Egyptian friends need to win the Africa Cup of Nations and we are going to the World Cup, let them have it so that they don’t get more problems back home,” revealed Saâdane.He claims that the Algerian team was instructed to lose the match against his will, and that if it wasn't for him, the loss would have probably been more embarrassing. “It was just two months after Omdurman. I refused to sell my country. I was in charge and I refused. When we went on the pitch I understood what was going to happen from the performance, it doesn’t matter if we lost 4-0, 5-0 or 6-0."
“I have no regrets, it is in the past,” concluded the 72-year-old.
This match came just two months afte
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World Cup 2010: Rabah Saadane plans to make his point proud and clear
Saadane has revived a declining team
That is the domain of the only African coach at this World Cup; the man who is plotting to upset England.
Rabah Saadane, 64, who is in his fifth stint in charge of Algeria, talks repeatedly of pride and responsibility. He and his team feel both, he says, as they prepare for tomorrow’s Group C match in Cape Town.
Saadane is proud to be the only coach from the continent where the tournament is being staged for the first time. But with that comes the onus of trying to prove Algeria were right to give the job to one of their own.
Of the six African teams taking part, Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon and Ivory Coast have all entrusted their hopes to European coaches. Hosts South Africa have a Brazilian in charge. Saadane believes African associations should “trust more in our own skills” and that it is advantageous for teams to be coached by someone “from the same cultural background and with the same mentality”.
That was not a dig at Fabio Capello’s England. Nor is Saadane embarrassed by the fact 17 of his squad are French-born. He has enough to concentrate on with all the “pride and responsibility” stuff. The players feel both, he said, as representatives of both Africa a
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Saadane - Fortune in determination hands
Algeria governess Rabah Saadane says his side's fate is cut down their at ease hands at the of their clash clatter USA.