Belmadi replaces Soleimani, who was injured with the “butcher” – Al-Hiwar Al-Jazaeryya

Djamel Belmadi decided to replace Islam Soleimani, who was injured with the Belgian club Anderlecht, in the list of the national team concerned with facing Niger next Thursday at Nelson Mandela Stadium, with another goal.

Soleimani was injured with Anderlecht the day before yesterday in the Belgian Championship, when the Algerian international suffered a bruise on the leg level in his team’s match against host Odd Leuven. The Anderlecht coach replaced Soleimani in the 75th minute of the powerful match that took place at the “Dean Drive” stadium.

Therefore, Belmadi found himself forced to replace him with the former player and scorer of the national team, Baghdad Bounedjah, who joined the national team yesterday evening, and who has been absent from the team since the African Cup of Nations, as he missed the 2022 World Cup qualifiers against Cameroon, and then continued to be absent from the qualifiers against Uganda, And Tanzania, as well as in the two friendly matches against Sweden and Mali, after the terrible decline in his level with the Qatari club Al-Sadd and the national team.

Despite the strong beginnings of “The Butcher” as he is called, with Al-Sadd Club in the Qatari League, Belmadi did not call him to the final list, and preferred to keep him on the reserve list, as he summoned him when the need arose.