Algeria often goes under the radar in the ice hockey world, but our nation has quietly made history in the sport. Although African countries South Africa and Morocco were IIHF members long before us, Algeria has quickly established itself with several firsts on the global stage. It all began in June 2008 at the Arab Cup in Abu Dhabi when…
Like most countries Algeria has been massively affected by covid-19, so naturally sport and ice hockey drop very low in peoples priorities. Right now as I write this Algeria is still locked down, borders closed and no sport being played at all. For us unfortunately it came at a pretty bad time as we’ve been making great progress only recently…
After long discussion with the sports ministry, the director of sport for Setif and directors of Park Mall Setif, it has been agreed to base Algeria’s first ever ice hockey school in Park Mall, in the city of Setif. Setif is quite a fitting city to have ice hockey, in winter it’s very cold and often snows a lot. It’s…
Amazing trip to Abu Dhabi and Dubai for the Arab Club Championship, was so busy so didn’t take many photos but here’s a few behind the scenes.
When I started the whole Algerian hockey project the dream was of course to create a national team and play for this national team and put this national team into competitions such as the World Championships and more unrealistically the Winter Olympics. That was the idea, the dream, but whilst making this dream a reality it became clear that this…
This week two new videos came out relating to Algerian and North African ice hockey. The first is a long video from a North African conference in Montreal, where a panel discuss North African sport. The panel included our goalie Hichem Bourebrab along with players from Morocco and Tunisia. If you can understand French it gives a good insight into…
In the latest edition of French hockey magazine ‘Slapshot’ there is an article on Maghreb (North west Africa) hockey. Myself and Algeria get a mention, and it touches on a potential game between Algeria and Tunisia in France. Click the image below to see a larger readable version of the article (in French).
I can exclusively reveal that in July 2016 Morocco will host the first ice hockey African club cup tournament. So far it’s looking like there will be two teams from Morocco, two from Egypt and one each from Tunisia and Algeria. There was initially talk of South Africa and Kenya sending teams but in the end they decided not to…
Here’s a sneak peak of my teams logo. The team name and logo has historical relevance to the city of Algiers. Full announcement of the team name, logo and uniform will be released soon.