Raouraoua-Saâdane… sealed reconciliation !

The chairman of the Algerian Football Federation (FAF), Mohamed Raouraoua, and former national football team coach, Rabah Saâdane, have finally agreed to bury the hatchet and go beyond their differences for the sake of a good showing by the Algeria football squad in the upcoming World cup football tournament to be hosted by Brazil next June.

The two men met for several hours in Algiers together with other sports officials and personalities in a bid to clear the air and scrap some lingering  bilateral divergences in expectation of the forthcoming FIFA World cup contest.

The broad-based meeting allowed for a frank reconciliation between the two men who had been literally locked in a “cold war” since the autumn of 2010,  because of deep divergences over the coaching and management of the national football squad.

 Rabah Saâdane threw up the towel as head coach after bitter criticism from the FAF chairman over the one-all draw versus Tanzania in the qualifying round for the Africa cup of nations tournament co-hosted in 2011 by Gabon and Equatorial Guinea.

 Since then, the fur has been flying between Raouraoua and Saâdane through acrimonious press statements, but now this untoward situation seems to have been straightened out for the good of the Algeria football line-up.