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Rabat – Algeria’s Ennahar TV has announced Algeria’s support for Morocco’s 2026 World Cup Bid. The North African country has also allowed its former football star Lakhdar Belloumi to represent Morocco as its bid ambassador.
In an interview broadcasted by Algerian Al Haddaf TV, Belloumi previously announced that he refused Morocco’s offer to become an ambassador for the country’s 2026 World Cup Bid.
The offer, according to Algerian news source Algerie-focus, was addressed to Belloumi by Hicham El Amrani, member of Morocco’s 2026 bid committee. After receiving the invitation, Belloumi declined the offer to avoid contradiction with “the decisions of the high instances,” referring to the official Algerian position, a close source told Algerie Focus.
The Algerian legendary footballer said in the interview that he refused Morocco’s offer because “It is a shame to leave his country to work somewhere else.”
He also expressed his disappointment in the absence of a commensurate employment offer in his homeland, Algeria, after being offered a job opportunity in Morocco.
Last month, Kheireddine Zetchi, president of the Algerian Football Federation (FAF) told Algerian TV channel Ennahar that “Algeria will stand with Morocco and help it to clinch the rights to host the World Cup,” on the sidelines of the 40th Ordinary General Assembly, which took place in Casablanca on Friday, February 2.
