{"id":19538,"date":"2025-11-11T16:12:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T15:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=19538"},"modified":"2025-11-11T16:12:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T15:12:29","slug":"tough-blow-for-petkovic-as-tougai-ruled-out-of-friendlies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=19538","title":{"rendered":"Tough Blow for Petkovic as Tougai Ruled Out of Friendlies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Algiers<\/strong> \u2013 National team coach Vladimir Petkovic has suffered a setback ahead of the upcoming training camp, with confirmation that defender Hichem Tougai will miss the friendly matches against Zimbabwe and Saudi Arabia due to injury.<\/p>\n<p>Sources within the national team&#8217;s medical staff have indicated that the Esperance Sportive de Tunis player is suffering from a thigh muscle injury. This necessitates a period of mandatory rest lasting several days, effectively ruling him out of the two upcoming fixtures.<\/p>\n<p>According to the same sources, Tougai will undergo a specialized rehabilitation program at his club&#8217;s facilities in Tunisia, under the supervision of their medical team. His condition will be reassessed before the start of the next national team gathering.<\/p>\n<p>Tougai is considered a key pillar in the national team&#8217;s defense, having delivered strong performances in recent matches. His absence will undoubtedly present a challenge for Petkovic as he prepares the team for these important friendly encounters.<\/p>\n<p><em>DZWatch will continue to provide updates on Tougai&#8217;s recovery and any further developments within the national team.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?cat=1\">More Algeria articles on DZWatch<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\">DZWatch &#8211; Your News Portal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Algiers \u2013 National team coach Vladimir Petkovic has suffered a setback ahead of the upcoming training camp, with confirmation that defender Hichem Tougai will miss the friendly matches against Zimbabwe and Saudi Arabia due to injury.<br \/>\nSources within the national team&#8217;s medi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-algeria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19540,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19538\/revisions\/19540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}