He has the proud gaze of Emir Abdelkader, a lofty gaze commensurate with the Algeria for which he would give his life. This Algeria that he led to the summits of Africa and the Arab world.
For 3 years that he has been the coach of the “Greens” he has only had the word homeland in his mouth. Every victory is dedicated to him. And victories, my God! there was only that. Shovel. Do you want some, here are some so good that we have become spoiled children. That’s the word: the spoiled children of Belmadi.
He gave us back the taste of this happiness that disappeared with the team of 82, partially felt with that of 2014 before taking the tangent. Until the arrival of Belmadi. When I learned of his appointment as head of the “Greens”, I thought it was a good omen because the name often sums up the character: Belmadi, in Arabic means the son of the sharp, the sharp .
And God how much he has since justified his name by making a moribund team the pride of an entire people who recognized themselves in it and in its coach who alone sums up the quintessence of the Algerian: always standing, always valiant , putting the homeland above everything.
This winning spirit, this commando spirit, this almost mystical fervor displayed by Belmadi and his troop amazed the world. I read here and there, heard here and there the European and Arab specialists, all, I mean all, are amazed by this transcended team, inhabited by the nation, in a state of almost trance.
For 3 years, therefore, it made us proud and happy, making us forget our daily dramas, even putting this formidable enemy that is covid in the background. She even gave back not happiness, it’s too much to ask of her, but the taste of life, to some bereaved. She was our psychotherapist, our comforter. She made us dream with our eyes open. Dreaming that anything is possible. Even the impossible.
And here she is skating and here she is falling in front of smaller than her. Fall ? no. Never. She stumbles, nothing more. A cold, that’s all. The tear in the eye, hardly repressed by Belmadi at a press conference is the same as that of this supporter from the South, West, East and Center, the same as that of the diaspora in the 4 corners of the world and whose national team is the link and the beating heart.
Tomorrow the national team will face Côte d’Ivoire. It’s not a big hill to overcome for the African champions. An effort, a goal, goals, and there she is at the top of the summit. She has the technical means and the heart, especially the heart, this heart so valiant when it comes to Algeria and so generous when it comes to offering it happiness.
I have the certainty that good blood cannot lie and that we will cross this course. But whatever happens tomorrow, in a week, in a month or in a year, we must keep our eternal gratitude to Belmadi and his troupe. They are now part of our history, this history that certain heroes have written with their blood, they have marked it with their guts. Kassaman for the brave.
Translated by hope from https://www.tsa-algerie.com/pour-djamel-belmadi/
