Due to the deaths of the team bus driver and goalie of a top-tier Algerian club, the national federation has decided to postpone all of this weekend’s games.
The Algerian Football Federation claimed that ten more MC El Bayadh players were hurt in the collision while the club was traveling north to Tizi Ouzou for their weekend match against JS Kabylie.
The bus crashed at Tiaret, some 90 miles (150 kilometers) from the Mediterranean shore, according to the federation, but it did not specify why.
It said that as a mark of respect it had decided to “suspend all footballing activities nationwide this weekend across all leagues and competitions”.
It added that the draw for the next round of Algeria’s main cup competition, which had been scheduled for December 26, would now be held at a later date.