Lakhdar Belloumi: "Hull City is a football school!" (video)
After Bachir Belloumi's first start with the Greens, his father Lakhdar reacted with pride and responded to the controversy surrounding his statements.
Present at the Hocine-Aït-Ahmed stadium in Tizi Ouzou, Lakhdar Belloumi closely followed Algeria's victory against Zambia (3-1), during Brahim Hemdani's first match in charge of the Greens. A special evening for the legend of Algerian football as his son, Bachir Belloumi, experienced his first start with the national team on this occasion.
Starting on the right wing, the Hull City player played for 70 minutes before being substituted. Very active, available between the lines, and capable of provoking, Belloumi was dangerous but could not be directly decisive. An encouraging performance for someone who arrives in the national team after an excellent start to the season in the Premier League.
After the match, Lakhdar Belloumi preferred to call for patience regarding this new era: "It's the first match, we cannot change either the team or the coach. Slowly, we will get there, inchallah." When asked about his son's performance, the former number 10 responded humorously: "Bachir is here, he is present. The main thing is that he makes good passes like his father (laughs). That's the most important."
The African Ballon d'Or winner of 1981 finally wanted to emphasize the collective over individual talents: "He will have a bright future, inchallah. There are players like him, or maybe better than him. The main thing is the national team." A measured discourse, as Bachir Belloumi now tries to establish himself permanently with the Greens.
Finally, regarding the comments attributed to him about his son deserving better than Hull City, he said, "These are people who do business on TikTok who came up with that, they do it for money! I don't know what to call them, it's better to forget them," before continuing, "Hull City is a football school, proof of that is Bachir, he learned and grew up there. How do you want me to criticize them?"