Noel Le Graet Responds ….
If the French team wins the Euro, are we going to have a friendly match against our African champion alter ego? Are we finally going to do this France-Algeria?
I completely share your wish. I still want to do it, but politics prevents me from doing it.
Is it still in the pipeline? Because you were close to getting there, but ultimately nothing …
It’s not France, it’s Algeria … Because I want to go there. Play the game here, we can do it, they would come. But I would love to go there because it’s been fifty years anyway … It’s the only country in the world you can’t meet. I received Gianni Infantino yesterday or the day before, we talked about it again, we may go there together one of these days, to see the political and security side instead. But yes, I would like to play this game.
“Me, I want to go and play in Algeria because that would be a strong sign. Getting them to come to Paris, no problem, we fill the Stade de France, we make money, that’s not the problem. But I want to play there. ”
And to set a good example and that Algeria invite France in return, why not do it again here?
Because they have been here before.
It’s been a while anyway …
Listen, you’re asking me the question. Your opinion does not interest me. Me, I want to go and play in Algeria because that would be a strong sign. I go to Algeria often, and over there, on the screens, they watch the matches of our championship. Getting them here is easy anywhere. I find it difficult, not to have a permanent refusal, but not to be able to go and play football. Getting them to come to Paris, no problem, we fill the Stade de France, we make money, that’s not the problem. But I want to play there.
It’s not like we played them three years ago in France (the last France-Algeria dates back to 2001) …
My answers matter. I say “I want to go to Algeria”, so don’t go back.
We have the right to come with our questions.
(Communication manager: “Yep, that’s what you are doing and he gave you an answer.”)
I want to go play in Algeria and I will do everything I can.
When you tell us that it’s easy to organize the game here, we want to say to you: “Well, why not do it? “And then if you answer us:” Because I want to go there “, we are fine, but we find the answer curious. All right,
well you’ll notice that. Okay listen, we’re gonna stop. It doesn’t feel like you’re asking questions out of nowhere.
What is the problem with having a France-Algeria match?
(The communications director: “Nothing at all, he just told you, he wants to do it there.”)
I told you that I wanted to do it in Algeria because it would be a strong sign and that I think that despite everything, France is loved there. At the political level, there are indeed difficulties between the two countries. But sport, and especially football, can help matters.
Perfect.
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