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…
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…
In my last post all the way back in January I listed some of the things I wanted to achieve in 2017. So in May I got out to Algeria after a long time. It was a visit generally for non-hockey purposes but I did manage to have a meeting with American ambassador to Algeria, Joan Polaschik, at the American…
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…
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…
Growing up around Islington and Hackney areas of London it always means a lot when the local newspapers recognise my achievements and want to discuss my accomplishments. Earlier in the year I was in the Hackney Today newspaper, and this week there’s an article in Islington Gazette, a newspaper thats been around for over 100 years and I remember it growing…
This week I received a large package in the post from Sweden, a company called Marsblade sent some special frame kits. I’m particularly interested in this product, with the lack of ice facilities in Algeria it’s really important to find off-ice alternatives. There have been many people using rollerblades in Algeria for many years, it’s nothing new and there’s some really…