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…
I know, again it’s been a while since I posted on my website, so the next few posts will be a catch up on some of the highlights that have happened in the last few months. So by far the biggest news, on September 2019 Algeria became official members of the International Ice Hockey Federation. This is probably the biggest…
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…
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…
I’m back on after a while with a lot of news to update on. Hockey Algeria has organised three fixtures in Laval, Canada. There was a series of two games against Morocco and an exhibition game against Lebanon in the Bell Centre. The Morocco series ended 1-1, Morocco won the first game and Team Algeria won the second game 2-1. The game against…
My African Clubs Cup 2016 captured in photos, some on the ice some off the ice. Looking back I wish I took a few more pics and vids and did some vlogs but it was all pretty hectic playing and managing the team, great times all the same.
A behind the scenes look at our visit to the beautiful Algerian embassy in Morocco, click the gallery images to enlarge. Thank you to Ambassador Mr Benyamina, Premier Secretary Hamid Mekki and all the embassy staff for the kind hospitality.