This is a hot topic in Algeria for years: the concept of binationality continues to fuel debates. Recently, the choice of Rayan Cherki to evolve in the French team has for his international career has caused many misunderstandings.
But the opposite situation can also be poorly perceived. Some footballers who grew up in France and come from French training have made the decision to represent the Algerian selection. Like the former Lyonnais Houssem Aouar, two players from Olympique de Marseille illustrate this situation: Amine Gouiri and Ismaël Bennacer.
Rayan Cherki, French neo-international.
This trend is not unanimous within a great institution such as the national selection of Algeria. Historical framework of the Greens, Islam Slimani made very vehement remarks with regard to the players who made “a choice”.
Slimani, the violent cropping
« Who are you to choose? Have you chosen to be Algerian? Have you chosen to be French or to be English? No, thundered the former AS Monaco striker in the Kampo podcast. We don't choose Algeria! If you were born in France, you lived in France and you have made all your career in France … But play for France, why are you playing for Algeria?« .
« For me, you have to put a rule, continued Slimani. We call you once, you come. If you refuse, you are no longer selected. When I hear 'choice', I want to cry. You come on vacation because it is your country, it is the country of your parents. But are you coming to play football? Never life!“. An outing that has not gone unnoticed in the country. Did Slimani target Rayan Cherki directly? Or players who have made the opposite way? In view of the terms chosen, the Algerian international seems more upset by the concept of binationality. A point of view that is not shared by some of his compatriots.
