{"id":80003,"date":"2026-09-26T00:05:03","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T23:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=80003"},"modified":"2026-09-26T00:05:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T23:05:03","slug":"dzw-a475f0993e9475d189ea344b00cb4de91446447a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=80003","title":{"rendered":"Hamdani Era Begins with Strong 3-1 Victory for Algeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"dzsl-auto-link dzsl-internal\" data-dzsl=\"internal\" href=\"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?cat=1\">Algeria<\/a>&#39;s national <a class=\"dzsl-auto-link dzsl-external\" data-dzsl=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fifa.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">football<\/a> team secured a dominant 3-1 victory over Zambia on Friday evening in their opening match of the 2027 <a class=\"dzsl-auto-link dzsl-external\" data-dzsl=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.au.int\/en\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Africa<\/a> Cup of Nations (CAN) qualifiers. Played at the Hocine A\u00eft Ahmed Stadium in Tizi Ouzou, this decisive win marks a successful beginning for the national team&#39;s campaign in Group Nine and the first test under new coach Ibrahim Hamdani, who took charge in September.<\/p>\n<p>The Desert Foxes made an immediate impact, with Jaouen Hadjam opening the scoring in the second minute. While Zambia&#39;s Fashion Sakala managed to equalize in the 57th minute, Algeria quickly regained the lead through Ibrahim Maza in the 67th minute. Anis Hadj Moussa then solidified the victory by netting a third goal in the 74th minute, ensuring the home side claimed all three points.<\/p>\n<p>This performance places Algeria at the top of Group Nine with three points, ahead of Togo on goal difference, after Togo also secured a 1-0 victory over Burundi in another group fixture. The strong start positions Algeria favorably as they continue their pursuit of a spot in the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations finals, which will be jointly hosted by Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Algeria&#8217;s national football team commenced their 2027 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying campaign with a strong 3-1 victory over Zambia at the Hocine A\u00eft Ahmed Stadium. This opening match marked a successful start under new coach Ibrahim Hamdani.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80002,"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-80003","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\/80003","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=80003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80004,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80003\/revisions\/80004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/80002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}