Abdelhamid Kermali

Infobox Football biography
playername = Abdelhamid Kermali


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dateofbirth = birth date and age|1931|4|24
cityofbirth = Sétif
countryofbirth = Algeria
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nickname =
position = Striker
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years =

1953-1955
1955-1958
clubs = USM Alger FC Mulhouse AS Cannes Olympique Lyonnais
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nationalteam = Algeria
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manageryears =
managerclubs = Algeria

Abdelhamid Kermali (born April 24, 1931 in Sétif, Algeria) is a former Algerian footballer and football manager of the Algerian national team.

He played in several Algerian clubs like USM Alger as a striker before leaving for France to play for FC Mulhouse, AS Cannes and the Olympique Lyonnais.

As a manager, he was the head of the Algerian national team during the 1990 African Cup of Nations hosted in Algeria. He is known in particular to have refused to select the young Zinedine Zidane to play for the Algerian national team in early 1990s under the pretext that he was not fast enough. [ [http://specials.rediff.com/sports/2006/jul/10sld-zid1.htm "The scarred French messiah"] ] [ [http://img106.imageshack.us/my.php?
] May 7th, 2005]

References and notes

"Much of the content of this article comes from [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdelhamid_Kermali the equivalent French-language wikipedia article] , accessed December 1 2006."cite book
author=Barreaud, Marc | title=Dictionnaire des footballeurs étrangers du championnat professionnel français (1932-1997) | year=1998 | publisher=L'Harmattan, Paris | isbn=2-7384-6608-7