🚨 Riyad Mahrez announces his international retirement

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3 July 2026

A legend takes a bow.

In the wake of

Algeria’s 2-0 defeat to Switzerland in the 2026 World Cup Round of 32

on Friday morning,

Riyad Mahrez

announced that he is retiring from international football!

–

Friday, 3 July 2026

The 35-year-old winger will no longer wear the Algerian national team shirt.

With 119 caps to his name, Mahrez bids farewell to the Greens as an absolute legend of Algerian football.

The winner of AFCON 2019, he had sent his country into the final that year thanks to his mythical free-kick against Nigeria in the very last second.

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence.

You can read the original version in 🇫🇷 here.

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