Abdelhamid Kermali

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Abdelhamid Kermali
Personal information
Date of birth	April 24, 1931 (1931-04-24) (age 77)
Place of birth	Sétif, Algeria
Playing position	Striker
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1953-1955 1955-1958	USM Alger FC Mulhouse AS Cannes Olympique Lyonnais
National team
	Algeria
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]}

Sporting positions
Preceded by Rabah Saadane	Algeria Men's National Team Coach February 1990 – February 1992	Succeeded by Meziane Ighil
Preceded by Abdel Djaadaoui Mircea Radulescu	Algeria Men's National Team Coach alongside Hamid Zouba and later Aït Djoudi March 2001 – July 2001	Succeeded by Rabah Madjer

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