"Football, under French colonial rule, was built to exclude them."
"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."
"So Algerians built their own club."
French colonial football structures excluded Algerians, prompting local communities to form their own clubs as a response to exclusion. The Sports Association in Constantine provided early foundations around 1898, but MC Alger, established in 1921, became the pivotal club that articulated identity, resistance and belonging. MC Alger transformed football into a site of collective assertion, linking sport to anti-colonial sentiment and communal solidarity. The club offered a platform for Algerians to organize socially and culturally, challenge exclusionary colonial practices, and express a shared sense of national and political identity through athletic participation.
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