Head of Algerian Football Federation: Fair play will prevail

The head of the Algerian Football Federation, Mohammed Raouraoua recalled back the tragic events that preceded the match that opposed Egypt to Algeria last November, when the Greens’ bus was attacked by fans wounding several Algerian players.

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• He stressed that today’s semi-finals will not trespass the sporting context, indicating that the three last matches between the two teams took place amid a total fair play on the pitch and that the attacks were masterminded from the outside putting the blame on his Egyptian counterpart, Samir Zaher.
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• “ We overstepped our qualification to the World Cup and Cairo’s events”
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• Talking to Radio Monté- Carlo , Mohammed Raouraoua has declared “ Now we have got over the qualification’s euphoria and our ordeal in Cairo, after the vicious stratagem used by the Egyptians in order to destabilize us through the cowardly attack on our bus and other mean behaviours… Our players fulfilled their duty in Khartoum and showed their prowess on the pitch versus Ivory Cost, whom many regarded as the main favourite to snatch the trophy, and proved to sceptical that our squad deserve their qualification to the world Cup and will be good Arab and African ambassadors in South Africa”.
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• February 22, will show who’s the victim and who’s the convict”
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• Mohammed Raouraoua slammed his Egyptian opposite number Samir Zaher, laying the blame on him and accusing him of being responsible for the tragic events “ The three matches between Egypt and Algeria took place in a an all-out fair play on the pitch, but the situation degenerated outside thanks to Samir Zaher… On February 22, we’ll know who is right and who is wrong”.
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• As to the match, Mohammed Raouraoua went on saying “ We will play a match nothing else and our players a ready to accept everything with fair play, the problem lies outside the pitch not inside”.