{"id":721288,"date":"2026-06-07T15:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T15:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/721288\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T15:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T15:46:10","slug":"football-soccer-algeria-keep-faith-with-petkovic-extend-deal-to-2028-ahead-of-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/721288\/","title":{"rendered":"Football: Soccer-Algeria keep faith with Petkovic, extend deal to 2028 ahead of World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>June 7 (Reuters) &#8211; Algeria have extended the \u2060contract of national team coach Vladimir Petkovic \u200cand his technical staff until 2028, the country\u2019s football federation said on Sunday, days before the World Cup \u200bin North America, with his \u2060previous deal due \u2060to expire immediately after the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Petkovic, who took \u2060charge \u200cin February 2024, has overseen a strong turnaround, leading Algeria to 21 \u2060wins, four draws and three defeats in \u200b28 \u200cmatches and guiding the team to qualification \u2060for the \u200b2026 World Cup, after their absence from the 2018 and 2022 editions.<\/p>\n<p>Algeria also reached the \u2060quarter-finals of the 2025 Africa Cup \u200bof Nations after consecutive group-stage exits in 2021 and 2023, while climbing from 43rd to \u206028th in the FIFA world rankings and from seventh to fourth in Africa during the Bosnian&#8217;s tenure.<\/p>\n<p>The federation said the extension reflected &#8220;stability \u200band confidence in the work \u2060accomplished&#8221;, with Algeria set to open their \u200bWorld Cup Group J campaign \u200cagainst Argentina on June \u200b17 before facing Jordan and Austria.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting Ashraf Hamed Atta; editing by Clare Fallon)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"June 7 (Reuters) &#8211; Algeria have extended the \u2060contract of national team coach Vladimir Petkovic \u200cand his technical&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":721289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,13201,596,85,21418],"class_list":["post-721288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fifa","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/721289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}