Deadly Games: Algeria and Tunisia's ultra football fans | Al Jazeera World Documentary

"Somebody said that football’s a matter of life and death to you. I said, listen, it's more important than that."
When the legendary Liverpool football manager Bill Shankly came out with his now-famous quote on TV in 1981, he might have been talking about the Algerian and Tunisian fans in this documentary. For many, football really is much more than a game. Some see themselves as not just supporters but part of a wider movement. They say that on the terraces, they find a sense of belonging and a camaraderie otherwise absent from their daily lives and that as supporters they also represent the dispossessed of the poor suburbs of Tunis and Algiers.
Sometimes, however, football passions can have life-changing consequences. In March 2018, 19-year-old Omar Labidi from the southern suburbs of Tunis clashed with police outside a busy stadium. The victim’s brother claims that police used tear gas to force Omar into a nearby river where he drowned. Three years after his death, his family continues to seek justice.
In Algeria, Raouf Zerka has only vague memories of the game that changed his life in November 2016. In the 70th minute of a local derby match in Algiers, a burning flare hit him in the face. After eight days in a coma, he discovered he had lost his left eye.
This film follows Tunisia’s and Algeria’s most passionate fans, buying tickets on the black market, travelling vast distances to away matches, and doing whatever it takes to support the teams they love. But it also highlights the price of football passion and asks if the cost of extreme fandoms is worth the risk.
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[@floridaguy3246]

You guys love football as much we Latin Americans do.

[@spongebobby6027]

Everybody loves football except the US Americans

[@shounakbelurgikar6128]

@@spongebobby6027 and south asia

[@Risklander]

@@spongebobby6027 USA is better than Algeria and Tunisia

[@ibtissempharm8800]

@@Risklander in football ? I highly doubt that. Go watch the Arab cup final tomorrow 😁

[@Risklander]

@@ibtissempharm8800 yes I’m pretty sure USA would beat Algeria and Tunisia

[@Nom_Prenom]

تحية للمولودية وشباب قسنطينة إخوتنا من مناصر للترجي التونسي، العتيق عتيق والقديم قديم والغبار يعشق الجلد اللي ينام عليه! تزهى الأيام ويزهى الفيراج إن شاء الله Congrats from Switzerland

[@ClubisteM]

Club Africain 🇦🇹 خونا عمر ان شاء الله في الجنة

[@joshr24]

Why tf are you in Austria? Go back to your own country

[@ClubisteM]

@@joshr24 1st - No, I'm not in Austria 2nd - Where I live, is none of your business, go and fix your life problems 3rd - The Austria flag emoji is used by fans of Club Africain on social media because it represents the colour of the football club, in this specific situation it's seen as emote, not as flag of a country

[@HadouOfRivia]

@@joshr24 bruh

[@beniwal.mayank]

Sports games are there to get stress free not to start riots period🙏🙏🙏

[@kazz9919]

Guessing you will never get this feeling from cricket

[@khikhanoseb1204]

Love Football by Heart not By violence 🙏🙏🙏

[@harouna1051]

we Tunisians love our football teams more then our country

[@lilium5434]

talk about youself we're not all traitors

[@yourmom-ly8bs]

this made me laugh 💀💀

[@Yasmin-jt1ux]

It's kinda understandable though.... Because to the youth their teams are the only thing that won't disappoint them... But the leaders of Tunisia will always do that.. Btw soccer fans in Tunisia were the first to participate in the 2021 revolution and they've always been the ones to fiercely call out police brutality and corruption in their chants...no wonder they banned them now.. They don't want another revolution....

[@-thebulldozer5711]

في تونس لا يوجد جمهور و حركية يوجع شعب وجمهور النادي الافريقي فقط وتصحيحا لمعلوماتكم أول مجموعات التراس في إفريقيا والوطن العربي هي افريكان وينرس النادي الافريقي 1995

[@SJCmasjid]

north africa have the most die hard football fans

[@k.m.ibeats4443]

No to violence in algerian stadiums

[@osimshonnota5433]

What a shame Al jazera report They published regarding other country But they can't talk a single comment about lies of qatar

[@wooow9676]

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[@labosanmurmu4960]

Hi

[@visakiviniemi2923]

Hi

[@labosanmurmu4960]

@@visakiviniemi2923 Hi

[@tunisiangladiator6509]

Bye.

[@gigiout7895]

@@tunisiangladiator6509 hh

[@c.s.m4590]

EST ❤❤❤❤

[@Oujdii]

Go to Morocco and you will see real football passion

[@San17_]

We are literally the same ._.

[@Oujdii]

@@San17_ no bro Morocco is a another level of a passion

[@San17_]

@@Oujdii we almost started a war with egypt in 2010 that's how much people like football

[@rezguirami3262]

@@Oujdii only idiots never change their mind

[@mightydeadsun928]

Lol Tunisia is your professor 😜 Always watch and learn