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Abdelhamid Kermali
	Abdelhamid Kermali
Personal information
Date of birth	April 24, 1931 (age 78)
Place of birth	Sétif, Algeria
Playing position	Striker
Senior career1
National team
Teams managed
	Algeria
	1 Senior club appearances and goals; counted for the domestic league only.; * Appearances (Goals)

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.^[1]^[2]

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Much of the content of this article comes from the equivalent French-language wikipedia article, accessed December 1, 2006.

^ The scarred French messiah
^ Le Buteur magazine May 7th, 2005

Barreaud, Marc (1998). Dictionnaire des footballeurs étrangers du championnat professionnel français (1932-1997). L'Harmattan, Paris. ISBN 2-7384-6608-7.

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[0] The scarred French messiah

[1] Le Buteur magazine May 7th, 2005

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