ALGERIAN FOOTBALL STADIUM IS NAMED AFTER NELSON MANDELA (PHOTOS + VIDEO)

Wed 21 December 2022:

Algerian Sports Minister Abdel Razzak Sabkak announced on Tuesday that the new football stadium currently under construction near Algiers will be named after the late South African leader Nelson Mandela, Anadolu news agency has reported. Sabkak made the announcement at a press conference.

The new Nelson Mandela Stadium boasts an official capacity of 40,784- a number slightly lower than the similarly named Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in South Africa – and its construction is reported to have cost around €280 million (05.1 billion).

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— Algérie Football Média 🇩🇿 (@DZFOOTBALLDZ) December 16, 2022

Algerian Sports Minister Abdel Razzak Sabkak announced on Tuesday that the new football stadium currently under construction near Algiers will be named after the late South African leader Nelson Mandela. pic.twitter.com/vTeUHgwpQK

— INDEPENDENT PRESS (@IpIndependent) December 21, 2022

Algerian Sports Minister Abdel Razzak Sabkak announced on Tuesday that the new football stadium currently under construction near Algiers will be named after the late South African leader Nelson Mandela. pic.twitter.com/U8mQ6nxNfm

— INDEPENDENT PRESS (@IpIndependent) December 21, 2022

Mandela was a revolutionary politician who struggled against the apartheid regime in South Africa. After his release from prison and the fall of apartheid he served as president between 1994 and 1999. He had a special relationship with the Algerian Liberation Revolution (1954-1962).

In 1961, Mandela received his first military training in the ranks of the National Liberation Army in Algeria. He also sent a number of African National Congress resistance fighters to Algeria to receive military training, before and after Algeria’s independence in 1962.

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