By Mathilde von Bülow, Guest Author
An epic World Cup encounter between Germany and Algeria in Brazil's Porto Alegre traces its roots to Algeria's resistance to French colonialism and a secret history of Algerian-German football relations that helped the North Africans achieve independence.
For Algerians, the match in which they were knocked out of the 2014 World Cup also was an opportunity to replay a World Cup game of 32 years ago that was widely seen to have been fixed by Germany and Austria. Austria was accused of deliberately playing a 1:0 score line against Germany in a successful bid to ensure that the two teams progressed to the next round at Algeria's expense.
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