Algeria's rebel footballers
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Le Felene and the Algerian Nationalists
Rachid melufi was one of france's best playmakers at the time, alongside monico's star defender and fellow algerian, mustafa situni. But now both had turned their backs on playing for france. The idea of the f l n was not to go and play football. It was to mount a really extraordinary p r cou it was an act designed to astonish people and to make people ask, why did these players, who had everything, why did they leave for the french?
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