{"id":84572,"date":"2025-12-12T14:43:39","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T14:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/when-football-fought-colonial-rule-game-theory\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T14:43:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T14:43:39","slug":"when-football-fought-colonial-rule-game-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/when-football-fought-colonial-rule-game-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"When football fought colonial rule | Game Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Football, under French colonial rule, was built to exclude them. So Algerians built their own club. The Sports Association in <!--more--> Constantine may have laid the foundations in 1898, but it was MC Alger, founded in 1921 who was the first football club that sparked a statement of identity, resistance and belonging. Samantha Johnson looks at how a football club fought colonial rule.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our channel  <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/AJSubscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/AJSubscribe<\/a><br \/>\nFollow us on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AJEnglish\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/AJEnglish<\/a><br \/>\nFind us on Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/aljazeera\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/aljazeera<\/a><br \/>\nCheck our website:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/<\/a><br \/>\nDownload AJE Mobile App : <a href=\"https:\/\/aje.io\/AJEMobile\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/aje.io\/AJEMobile<\/a><\/p>\n<p>#Algeria #MCAlger #ColonialHistory #FootballResistance #FrenchColonialRule #AlgerianIdentity #SportsAndPolitics #Constantine #AfricanFootball #HistoryOfResistance #AlJazeeraEnglish<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Football, under French colonial rule, was built to exclude them. So Algerians built their own club. The Sports Association in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}