Egypt victory will not affect Algeria’s chances to qualify to World Cup, says defender Heliche

Algeria’s defender Rafik Heliche said his national team does not care about the victory of Egypt over Rwanda while he stressed the necessity of beating Zambia and Rwanda.

• What do you think of the victory of Egypt over Rwanda in Sunday’s match?
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• Though the Egyptians won with a large score but we do not give them big importance. Egypt played in home and could not beat Rwanda only in the last minutes of the second leg. The most important thing for us is to win Zambia and then Rwanda.
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• How did you find the level of the two teams in the match?
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• Honestly, I did not watch the entire match. I think that Egypt found a big difficulty in beating Rwanda as they could not score goals in the first leg.
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• After this victory, the Egyptians have now to qualify to the World Cup 2010.
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• Yes sure. But we will work on beating Zambia and Rwanda without waiting for the results of the matches between Egypt and the other teams.
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• Don’t you think that Egypt tightened the noise on you after he had won Sunday’s match?
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• They are free to think of whatever they want. There are still three other matches to play. We should be realistic and aware of our responsibility. We will keep going gradually until we make the Algerian people’s dream come true by qualifying to the World cup 2010.
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• Tell us about offers you get from Europe.
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• At present, I am in vacation with my family. As for offers, there are some but I do not want to talk about any of them at present. I am going to study them with my manager. I let you know that I have offers from Portuguese and French clubs.