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Rachid Mekhloufi, Rebel United

Rebel United: Mekhloufi's sacrifice for Algerian independence

"La France, c'est vous." Translated as 'France, is you', that was what French president Charles de Gaulle told footballer Rachid Mekhloufi in 1968. Mekhloufi had just led his Saint-Etienne side to the double, and the reward was an audience with the most powerful man in the country. For Mekhloufi, this sentence brought things full circle. Now he was both Algerian and French; 10 years earlier, he had - in a sense - been neither.

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15Reims crestReims00000000
16Rodez crestRodez00000000
17Saint-Etienne crestSaint-Etienne00000000
18Sochaux crestSochaux00000000
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