Sport

History

Algiers is a city which played a major part in the development of the sport in Algeria. It always holds a major role in the diffusion and ḻorganisation as well of traditional sports modern : football with the Vietnamese soldier considering CAD while passing by the judo, the basketball, or tennis. The totality of the national federations were born there and there have their seats, c’est also where the seat of the Algerian Olympic committee is. The capital accomodated the Mediterranean plays in 1975, the Panafrican plays in 1978, the ḏAfric cut  of the Nations of Football in 1990, the ḏAfric cut of the nations of Handball in 2001, the ḏAfric cut of the nations of Basketball in 2005  without forgetting the plays panarabes during the same year and the world cup junior by volley ball.  Aujourd’hui, the of Algiers sporting calendar counts several events d’importance like the price of the president of the republic for ḻequitation, meeting IAAF d’Alger in athletics, the international cross-country race d’Alger, l’open international d’Alger in judo or many stages of cuts or championships of the world in fencing and tennis.

With regard to the practice, Algiers counts approximately 100 000 bachelors in the various sporting disciplines on its 3,5 inhabitants million and as much d’amateurs who do it for the pleasure or to maintain the form. It touches all the layers of the company, most underprivileged with richest, smallest with the veterans, and as well the men as the women. All this population of sportsmen revolves around three axis principal : the school and university sport including more than 10 000 practise, the sport in company (sport and work) with a manpower of 15 000 practise and the competitive sport through all the disciplines and which counts a little more  than 70 000 members. So d’encourager the practice of the sport like for ḻorganisation of the various sporting events, the capital lays out d’un annual budget from 30 to 35 billion centimes mainly allocated by the ministry for youth and the sports.

Dimensioned infrastructures, the plays Mediterranean of 1975 mark  the vast beginning d’une period  with the realization  of Olympic complex OCO Mohamed Boudiaf including/understanding the Olympic stage of July 5 (70000 places), the stage annexes ḏathletism, the Olympic swimming pool, ‘la coupole’ who is a room multisports (6000 places), a splendid course of cross-country race country, a golf of 18 holes like several courses of tennis. With that one can add the room Harcha Hacène : this general sports complex of 6200 places  devastated mainly by a fire in 2001  was renovated in 2002, it answers the international standards (wall screen, electronic posting, simultaneous translation, vidéosurveillance, air-conditioning, fire protection fight) and c’est l’une of most beautiful and more modern rooms ḏAfric. Algiers counts a second sporting complex certainly less large than l’OCO but quite as beautiful, c’est that of Caroubier. Laying out d’un stage d’entraînement for the Football in natural grass, of rooms of musculation, and especially d’un hippodrome or is held many equestrian demonstrations. By sporting discipline, the capital is been useful well as it is necessary : for the practice of the Football, the many of Algiers clubs lay out in more of the stage July 5 d’une ten stages approved for the matches 1st and the 2nd division (August 20, 1955, Omar Hamadi, Rouiba, Benhaddad, November 1, 1954, …) like more than 80 communal stages. Concerning the collective sports, put aside the room Harcha and the cupola there exist 32 general sports rooms on the levels of the 31 leagues of wilaya which Algiers account ; for swimming, the swimmers of l’algérois has of three Olympic swimming pools and three other semi Olympic and concerning the sports combat which are practised in the various general sports rooms, Algiers s’est equipped in July with l’année 2005 d’un dojo (offering of the Japanese government) obeying to the standards in strengths on the level with the commune of Bouzaréah and which became the center of preparation of the national teams. Tennis n’est not about it remains, since the tennismen and tenniswomen  have several sites inter alia with the level of the tourist complex of Sidi Fredj, on the level of the Olympic complex of July 5, on the level of Hydra for tennis club  of Sonatrach without forgetting the complex of Bachjarah. Lately, Algiers saw the construction of the national sporting college on the level of the commune of Draria which national reception l’élite in all the sports, it offers all the conveniences for our young sportsmen so qu’ils succeed and S ‘épanouissent as well scolairement as sportivement.