When football fought colonial rule
When football fought colonial rule
Samantha Johnson explores how MC Alger used football to challenge French colonial rule.
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Football, under French colonial rule, was built to exclude them. So Algerians built their own club.The Sports Association in Constantine may have laid the foundations in 1898, but it was MC Alger, founded in 1921 who was the first football club that sparked a statement of identity, resistance and belonging. Samantha Johnson looks at how a football club fought colonial rule.
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Published On 12 Dec 2025