FLN football team
The FLN football team (in Arabic: فريق جبهة التحرير الوطني لكرة القدم, in French: Équipe du FLN de football), also known as Le onze de l'indépendance (English: The eleven of the Independence), was a team made up mainly of professional players in France, who then joined the Algerian independence movement of the National Liberation Front (FLN), and assisted in organizing football matches against national football teams. The FLN linked African football to anti-colonial resistance using the idea of Pan-Africanism as a legitimizing tool and symbol of national identity.
| Home stadium | Various | ||
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| First international | |||
| Tunisia 1–5 FLN (Tunis, Tunisia; May 3, 1958) | |||
| Last international | |||
| Yugoslavia 1–5 FLN (Belgrade, Yugoslavia; March 29, 1961) | |||
| Biggest win | |||
| Tunisia 0–8 FLN (Tunis, Tunisia; April 15, 1958) Morocco 0–8 FLN (Casablanca, Morocco; October 8, 1959) | |||
| Biggest defeat | |||
| Tianjin XI 5–1 FLN (Tianjin, China; October 25, 1959) | |||
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