Algerian official media said that the country’s president Abdel Majeed TebbouneHe received with great sadness the news of the passing of Algerian football legend Rachid Makhloufi, player of the historic National Liberation Front team, coach of the first team, and former president of the Algerian Football Federation.
Tebboune offered his sincere condolences to the family of the deceased and to the family Algerian football My sincere condolences.
And the legend is gone Rachid MakhloufiOnly Dahmane Dafnoun and Mohamed Maoush remain from the historic FLN team.
Makhloufi is considered one of the brightest stars of Saint-Etienne in France. After his football career ended in 1970, he moved to the world of coaching, where he supervised… Algerian national teamWith whom he won the gold medal in the Mediterranean Games in 1975 in Algeria at the expense of France (3/2 after extra time), and the gold medal in the African Games in 1978 by defeating Nigeria 1/0.
The deceased was also a member of the technical staff of the Algerian national team in the 1982 World Cup finals Spain.
In addition to the Algerian national team, the deceased previously coached Bastia of France, Nejmeh of Lebanon and Marsa of Tunisia.
