Inauguration Stade 5 Juillet 1972 (Alger)

Tournament to celebrate the opening of the Stade 5 Juillet in Alger

Semifinals [Jun 17]
Maghreb XI 2-0 Budapest XI
  [Filali 51, Tazi 77]
  [Maghreb XI: Allal, Boudjemaa, Zenir, Khedis, Barkat (Melliti),
     Filali, Betrouni, Lalmas, Chekroun, Akid (Tazi), Mustapha;
     coach: Kamel Lemoui (Alg);
   Budapest XI: Szentmihaly, Torok, Meszoly, Vertig, Tmmerki, 
     Malmouzy, Kamuves, Repas, Toth, Szabo, Feervari;
   att: 60,000;
   ref: Ahmed Khelifi (Alg)]
Palmeiras  1-0 AC Milan 

Third Place Match [Jun 18]
AC Milan   1-0 Budapest XI

Final [Jun 18; att: 55,000]
Maghreb XI 1-0 Palmeiras
  [Chekroun 32]
  [Maghreb XI : Allal, Boudjemaa, Zenir, Khedis, Melliti, Filali, 
     Betrouni, Lalmas, Tazi, Mustapha, Chekroun; coach: Kamel Lemoui;
   Palmeiras: Raul Marcel, Zé Carlos, Luís Pereira, Zeca, Dudu, 
     Alfredo Mostarda, Ronaldo, Madurga, César Maluco, Ademir da Guia,
     Nei; coach: Oswaldo Brandão]


NB: Maghreb XI consisted of:

Allal Ben Kassou [Morocco], Boudjemaa Benkhrif [Morocco], 
Abdelwahab Zenir [Algeria], Mohamed Khedis [Algeria], 
Mohamed El-Filali [Morocco], Ahcene Lalmas [Algeria], 
Mohamed Ali Akid [Tunisia], Abdellah Tazi [Morocco],
Mustapha Choukri [Morocco], Mourad Barkat [Algeria], 
Moncef Melliti [Tunisia], Omar Betrouni [Algeria], 
Ezzeddine Chakroun [Tunisia]; 

Hadefi and Tahar, the regular central defenders of Algeria at 
the time, did not take part because they were selected for the 
Africa squad which was playing at the same time in the 
Copa Independencia do Brazil 1972.

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Thanks to Neil Morrison

Prepared and maintained by Ahmed Laïdi for the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation

Author: Ahmed Laïdi
Last updated: 28 May 2020