Algerian ice hockey and the Corsaires hockey club appeared in several press and media reports around the Arab Club Championship, here’s a selection of them: 3 x Islington Gazette articles, UK (english), two of which are about me #1, #2, #3 The National, UAE (english) https://www.thenational.ae/sport/other-sport/juma-al-dhaheri-excited-to-lead-abu-dhabi-storms-in-arab-clubs-championship-ice-hockey-tournament-1.718119 Abu Dhabi Sports Committee (english) http://www.adsc.ae/en/media-center/press-releases/ice-hockey-1/ AlIttihad, UAE (arabic) http://alittihad.ae/details.php?id=25002&y=2018&article=full Romford Recorder, UK (english) http://www.romfordrecorder.co.uk/sport/an-honour-to-play-for-algerians-in-bid-to-raise-profile-of-our-great-sport-1-5473865 Videos Alghad TV (arabic) France 24…
With 3 weeks left until the tournament I now have a few more details to release. Firstly it’s been given an official title, it will be known as the 1st Arab Club Championship, and we have an official logo (above), which gives it a nice professional feel. The tournament will be from 3rd-7th of April, and involve 6 teams, split…
A month or so ago I received an invitation to an Arab Cup in Abu Dhabi. It is now 10 years since the last Arab Cup I played in, in Abu Dhabi. This Arab Cup will not involve national teams though, it will be the first Arab Clubs Cup, following an African Clubs Cup which took place in Morocco in…
In this Brownbook Magazine Article towards the end it quotes me as saying – ‘None of that “new year, new me” around here,’ Kerbouche tweeted at the beginning of 2016. ‘I just [want to] carry on where I left off. Excited to see what 2016 brings.’ 2015 had been a good year and I was excited to see what would happen in…
British television channel ITV sent me around 2 hours raw footage of my team training and playing at the African Club Cup, this weekend I had a chance to edit a bit and upload it to YouTube. The first of a few vids is some GoPro footage of one of our training sessions. Harond Litim was wearing the GoPro camera…
I’ve achieved quite a lot so far in my life, but this is possibly my biggest achievement. For those of you that follow this blog you’ll be aware that I’m the creator and owner of Algeria’s first ever hockey team, HC Alger Corsaires. So following our participation in the first ever African Clubs Cup, this week my team’s jersey has…
I intended to blog and vlog on a daily basis while in Morocco but I initially had no internet and when I finally did get a Moroccan sim with some data I was then too busy playing and managing the team to write more than a little tweet or facebook status update. As I’ve said before I’m not much of…
So as you may or may not be aware, in July there will be the first ever African Club Cup tournament, in Rabat, Morocco. This competition will feature teams from Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt and Algeria. The Algerian club involved will be Corsaires d’Alger, this is my team, my creation. I’ve wanted to create an Algerian hockey club for a while…