{"id":47556,"date":"2026-01-17T02:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T01:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=47556"},"modified":"2026-01-17T02:00:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T01:00:24","slug":"boulbine-laments-refereeing-injustice-against-algeria-at-afcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=47556","title":{"rendered":"Boulbine Laments Refereeing Injustice Against Algeria at AFCON"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Algerian national team player, Adel Boulbine, has asserted that <em>Les Verts<\/em> (The Greens) suffered blatant refereeing injustice during their quarter-final match against Nigeria in the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview, Boulbine stated that the Nigerian team did not need the assistance they received from the Senegalese referee, Issa Sy, considering their own strength as a team. He expressed his disappointment, emphasizing the perceived bias that impacted Algeria&#8217;s progress in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We suffered refereeing injustice, and Nigeria is a great team that doesn&#8217;t deserve the referee&#8217;s help,&#8221; Boulbine stated. &#8220;Thankfully, we have turned the page on the Africa Cup and will look to the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting on his first experience in the continental competition, Boulbine added: &#8220;The experience of participating in the Africa Cup was very positive. I achieved my dream of playing with the first team, and I will continue to work to develop my capabilities in order to help my team and the national team in future matches.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead, the Al-Duhail SC star also spoke about the 2026 World Cup, saying: &#8220;The World Cup is a global tournament and different from the Africa Cup. We will try to enter it strongly, God willing, and make the Algerian people happy.&#8221; Boulbine&#8217;s comments highlight the team&#8217;s ambition and determination to succeed on the world stage, despite the setbacks experienced at AFCON.<\/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>Algerian national team player, Adel Boulbine, has asserted that Les Verts (The Greens) suffered blatant refereeing injustice during their quarter-final match against Nigeria in the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations.In an interview, Boulbine stated that the Nigerian team did not need the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47557,"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-47556","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\/47556","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=47556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47558,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47556\/revisions\/47558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}