{"id":20494,"date":"2025-11-13T14:10:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T13:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=20494"},"modified":"2025-11-13T14:10:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T13:10:56","slug":"algeria-faces-zimbabwe-in-friendly-match-ahead-of-afcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=20494","title":{"rendered":"Algeria Faces Zimbabwe in Friendly Match Ahead of AFCON"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jeddah, Saudi Arabia<\/strong> \u2013 The Algerian national football team, affectionately known as \u201cLes Verts,\u201d will face Zimbabwe in an international friendly match today, Thursday, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The game offers crucial preparation ahead of the upcoming Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON).<\/p>\n<p>National coach Vladimir Petkovic will use this opportunity to assess the readiness of his squad and experiment with different tactical approaches. With several key players unavailable for this training camp \u2013 including <em>Bensebaini, Tougai, Chaibi, and goalkeeper Luca Zidane<\/em> \u2013 the match provides a platform for other players to showcase their abilities and stake a claim for a place in the final AFCON squad.<\/p>\n<p>The match is scheduled to kick off at 17:30 local time at the Prince Abdullah Al Faisal Stadium in Jeddah. Algerian fans can follow the game through various channels including the terrestrial and sixth Algerian channels, and the Algerian television channel on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>This friendly international serves as a valuable opportunity for Algeria to fine-tune their preparations and build momentum as they gear up for the challenges that await them at the prestigious Africa Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?cat=40\">More Sports 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>Jeddah, Saudi Arabia \u2013 The Algerian national football team, affectionately known as \u201cLes Verts,\u201d will face Zimbabwe in an international friendly match today, Thursday, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The game offers crucial preparation ahead of the upcoming Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20495,"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":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20494","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=20494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20496,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20494\/revisions\/20496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}