Algeria's U21 national football team secured the gold medal at the Mediterranean Games Taranto 2026, triumphing over Tunisia with a 2-0 victory in the final match. This significant win ends a 51-year wait for Algeria in the football competition at the Mediterranean Games, marking a historic return to the top podium since 1975.<\/p>\n
The young Algerian squad demonstrated a dominant performance throughout the tournament, remaining undefeated across all five matches played. In the final, Ahmed Kohili opened the scoring early, finding the net within the first minute of play. Kohili then sealed the victory in the 80th minute, converting a penalty to secure his second goal of the match and ultimately become the competition's leading scorer with five goals.<\/p>\n
This gold medal represents a noteworthy achievement for Algerian football, highlighting the talent within the national youth teams and offering a promising outlook for future senior selections. The football gold is one of three gold medals secured by Algeria at the Taranto Games, contributing to a total of 20 medals for the national delegation, comprising three golds, five silvers, and twelve bronzes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Algeria’s U21 national football team clinched the gold medal at the Mediterranean Games Taranto 2026, defeating Tunisia 2-0 in the final. This victory marks a historic achievement, being the first football gold for Algeria at the Games in 51 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70202","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\/70202","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=70202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}