The draw for the European League championship on Thursday last week puts Maccabi Tel Aviv and Portugal’s FC Porto in the same group during the qualifiers for the European Champion’s League, along with Chelsea FC and FC Dynamo Kyiv.
Algerian media reports that Yacine Brahimi, who plays for FC Porto as well as in Alegria’s national team, will need to play against Maccabi Tel Aviv on its home turf at the Bloomfield Stadium.
According to TSA, an Algerian website, a heated debate rages in the local media in Arabic and social media outlets in the country on whether Brahimi should play in Israel or not.
Some say Brahimi, known as a champion of the Palestinian cause, should not mix politics and sports, while others say he should act as player Rafik Halliche did in 2012, when he claimed to not be able to play due to an injury.
According to TSA, Brahimi is also unsure how the management of FC Porto will react. The match is scheduled for November 4.
Porto’s Yacine Brahimi controls the ball during the soccer Champions League quarterfinal second leg match between Bayern Munich and FC Porto at the Allianz Arena in Munich, southern Germany, Tuesday, April 21, 2015. (Michael Probst/AP)
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