Algeria coach Rabah Saadane has confirmed the additional five players to make up his preliminary squad.
Saadane reveals full preliminary squad
Algeria coach Rabah Saadane has confirmed the additional five players to make up his preliminary squad.
Saadane previously named a 25-man party, but he has now added to that to take him to his full compliment, which must be trimmed to 23 by 1st June.
He has included a trio of players from Algerian champions Entente Setif in the shape of Lazhar Hadji Assia, Hocine Metraf and Khaled Lemmouchia.
There were also call-ups for defender Mohamed Meftah of Kabylie and stiker Amri Chadli, who recently joined Kaiserslautern.
Algeria preliminary squad:
Goalkeepers: Faouzi Chaouchi (Entente Setif), Lounes Gaouaoui (ASO Chlef), Rais Ouheb Mbouli (Slavia Sofia), Mohamed Lamine Zemmamouche (Mouloudia
Defenders: Habib Belaid (Boulogne-sur-Mer), Nader Belhadj (Portsmouth), Majid Bougherra (Rangers), Rafik Halliche (Nacional), Abdelkader Laifaoui (Entente Setif), Carl Medjani (Ajaccio), Mohamed Meftah (JS Kabylie), Djamel Mesbah (Lecce), Hocine Metref (Entente Setif), Antar Yahia (VfL Bochum)
Midfielders: Djamel Abdoun (Nantes), Lazhar Hadj Aissa (Entente Setif), Riad Boudebouz (Sochaux), Adlane Guedioura (Wolverhampton Wanderers), Fouad Kadir (Valenciennes), Medhi Lacen (Racing Santanader), Khaled Lemmouchia (Entente Setif), Yazid Mansouri (Lorient), Mourad Meghni (Lazio), Hassan Yebda (Portsmouth), Karim Ziani (VfL Wolfsburg)
Forwards: Amri Chadli (Kaiserslautern, Germany), Rafik Djebbour (AEK Athens), Abdelkader Ghezzal (Siena), Karim Matmour (Borussia Moenchengladbach), Rafik Saifi (Istres)
