FLN football team

FLN football team
Shirt badge/Association crest
Home stadiumVarious
First colours
Second colours
First international
 Tunisia 1–5 FLN Algeria
(Tunis, Tunisia; 3 May 1958)
Last international
 Yugoslavia 1–5 FLN Algeria
(Belgrade, Yugoslavia; 29 March 1961)
Biggest win
 Tunisia 0–8 FLN Algeria
(Tunis, Tunisia; 15 April 1958)
 Morocco 0–8 FLN Algeria
(Casablanca, Morocco; 8 October 1959)
Biggest defeat
China Tianjin XI 5–1 FLN Algeria
(Tianjin, China; 25 October 1959)

The FLN football team (in Arabic: Lire  فريق جبهة التحرير الوطني لكرة القدم,[1] in French: Équipe du FLN de football), also known as Le onze de l'indépendance (English: The eleven of the Independence), was a team made up mainly of professional players in France, who then joined the Algerian independence movement of the National Liberation Front (FLN), and assisted in organizing football matches against national football teams. The FLN linked African football to anti-colonial resistance using the idea of Pan-Africanism as a legitimizing tool and symbol of national identity.

  1. ^ Pronunciation in Arabic is fariq jabhate al-taḥrir al-watani