The Algerian national football team are to donate their entire World Cup prize fund to the embattled people of Gaza, it has been reported.
According to quotes attributed to Algeria’s star striker Islam Slimani, the team will give up all of the estimated $9 million (£5.25 million) they received as valiant losers in the round of 16.
Though Slimani himself plays for Sporting Lisbon and is touted for an even bigger move this summer, the reported donation will be a greater sacrifice for members of the squad based at more modest clubs in Algeria, Tunisia, the lower French leagues and Watford.
Yet according to the Jordanian football writer Waleed Abu Nada, Slimani said: "They need it more than us."
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