After the success of the defender of the Algerian national team, Djamel Benlamri, in his new club in the French football championship, Olympique Lyonnais (OL), posted a video of him resurfaces and made the buzz on Algerian social networks by collecting a number of views that it had not been able to attract at the time of its initial posting.
The player is very appreciated and madly popular with supporters of the Greens, and African champion in 2019 with the selection of Algeria, Djamel Benlamri, who currently shines in Ligue 1 under the jersey of Olympique Lyonnais (OL), creates the buzz on the web and it is in this context of the effervescence of football fans, enthusiastic about his performances despite his age, that Algerian internet users have unearthed a video of him which dates back several years. We see him in the video speaking into the microphone of a television station. The footballer was then at the home of the three young USMH supporters who died tragically.
They had gone to Chlef to attend a match played away by their favorite team. Djamel Benlamri appeared very touched by the tragedy. He had shown his entire compassion and solidarity with the family of the deceased. Benlamri then called on the young Harrachis to stop traveling with the local team at the risk of their lives. “Just watch the matches taking place at Lavigerie,” he said to the people around him. In reality, this video is only a sample. Many others, as old as this one, manage to register millions of views recently.
Djamel Benlamri… An idol, a reference for young Algerians
Djamel Benlamri has become an icon in the eyes of Algerian youth. The defender who was not spoiled by the nomenklatura of Algerian football was able to regain his footing and move forward. Beyond football, his career today symbolizes the value of work and faith in oneself. A great lesson in life that teaches you to always have hope and to continue to work hard. Young Algerians admire the insistence of a Benlamri who has never stopped believing in it.
If now, he is nicknamed “the warrior” in Lyon, it is not at all a coincidence. Oh no! Djamel Benlamri, who was born one day in December 89 and grew up in the eastern suburbs of Algiers, is thus transformed into a source of inspiration still in motion. His European experience, which began at the age of 30, shows that “when you want you can”. The enthusiasm of young Algerian internet users for their football star is understandable. It is a real obstacle course which brought him back, in fact, to rise in the “rank”.
