Djamel Belmadi looked like a bad day after Algeria's underperformance for its entry into contention against Sierra Leone on Monday (0-0).
However, the coach of the Fennecs did not expect to see a journalist insist on the weather conditions to explain the reasons for this first hitch.
"
If you had played at 6, 7 or 8 pm, would you have farted the Sierra Leone team?"
», Asked a local journalist at a press conference, prompting the Franco-Algerian to question.
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The manager of the Greens had insisted on the importance of the climate during the press conferences before the competition.
"
Today it was very humid, very hot, but that's no excuse
," Belmadi said.
But it weighs on the body of players who are used to playing in Europe.
(...) I did not insist, I said that we had to do with it.
"
And the journalist in question, causing laughter from the room, has already planned on ... CAN 2023, which will be played in Côte d'Ivoire, where it is also very humid at this time of the year.
"
You are comparing something that is incomparable
,
"
replied Belmadi before concluding, laconic: "
You are a journalist, not a meteorologist.
"
