The FIFA World Cup page has sparked widespread controversy, after it reviewed, through its Facebook account, the numbers of the Algerian and Moroccan teams ahead of their confrontation, yesterday, Saturday, in the Arab Cup.
And the FIFA page wrote in its post, that the Moroccan team, which is participating in the reserve team in the Arab Cup championship currently held in Qatar, outperforms its Algerian counterpart, who is also participating in the tournament with the second team, in terms of the number of consecutive matches without defeat, at the level of the team Primary, local and supplementary.
The page stated that the Moroccan team had not been defeated in the last 26 consecutive matches, while the Algerian team had 20 unbeaten matches in its record. At a time when most of the Algerian media were talking about the “Desert Warriors” approaching a historic record equation for Italy, which has the longest “undefeated” streak for world teams, with 37 matches.
Before the Morocco match, Algerian newspapers and sports websites reported that the “Greens” team reached the 36th match in a row without receiving any defeat, after winning two meetings and drawing in another, in three matches in the group stage of the Arab Cup.
After the Algerian national team kidnapped the visa to qualify for the Arab Cup semi-finals, after its victory over its Moroccan brother, on penalties (5-3), after the end of the original and additional times with a positive draw (2-2), FIFA returned to delete the post he had published before The confrontation of the two neighboring teams, to raise questions and discussions about the fact that Algeria equaled the Italian record.
Did Algeria equal Italy’s record?
“kooora” website said that although the Arab Cup is recognized by the International Federation of the Game and organized under its banner, the Algerian team’s journey in the tournament will not be added to the number of the first team led by coach Jamal Belmadi, with 33 matches without a loss.
He added, the Algerian national team, in order to avoid defeat in the next five matches, needs to break the “Azouri” number, which managed earlier to reach the barrier of 37 games without a loss.
According to the “kooora” website, the “warriors” team will be able to break the Italian team’s number, during its participation in the upcoming African Nations Cup finals, to be held in Cameroon early next year.