Pendant la Coupe du monde, une ville universitaire du centre du Kansas, Lawrence \u2014 environ 96 000 habitants \u2014, a pris une nouvelle identit\u00e9 : celle du camp de base de l’\u00e9quipe nationale d’Alg\u00e9rie.<\/p>\n
L’Alg\u00e9rie y a install\u00e9 son camp de base pour la Coupe du monde, et toute la ville a tout simplement adopt\u00e9 cette s\u00e9lection nord-africaine comme la sienne. Le centre-ville s’est couvert des drapeaux vert, blanc et rouge de l’Alg\u00e9rie, les habitants ont multipli\u00e9 les soir\u00e9es de retransmission, et les gens du coin ont m\u00eame appris les chants de l’\u00e9quipe.<\/p>\n
Le plus dr\u00f4le et le plus attendrissant : l’Universit\u00e9 du Kansas (KU) poss\u00e8de un cri de ralliement l\u00e9gendaire, \u00ab Rock Chalk Jayhawk \u00bb. Cette fois, tout le monde en a r\u00e9\u00e9crit les paroles pour scander \u00ab Rock Chalk Algeria \u00bb. La fanfare de l’universit\u00e9 a jou\u00e9 l’hymne national alg\u00e9rien, et l’artiste local Stan Herd a utilis\u00e9 des mat\u00e9riaux naturels et organiques \u2014 plantes et terre \u2014 pour \u00ab faire pousser \u00bb un immense drapeau alg\u00e9rien sur la pelouse du campus.<\/p>\n
Le s\u00e9lectionneur de l’Alg\u00e9rie, Vladimir Petkovic, a confi\u00e9 aux journalistes que l’\u00e9quipe ressentait tout cet amour. \u00ab Nous avons eu de tr\u00e8s bonnes ondes \u00bb, a-t-il dit \u2014 pas seulement de la part des Alg\u00e9riens du coin, mais aussi d’Am\u00e9ricains de souche venus les encourager.<\/p>\n
Une \u00e9quipe, une petite ville inconnue, r\u00e9unies par la Coupe du monde. Certains y voient la plus belle histoire d’amour inattendue de ce tournoi. C’est bien l\u00e0 la magie du football : il peut transformer deux endroits qui n’ont rien \u00e0 voir en une grande famille.<\/p>\n
Sources :<\/strong> ABC News \/ Good Morning America, \u00ab Kansas town adopts Algerian team during World Cup \u00bb (lien<\/a>) ; KCUR (NPR), \u00ab Lawrence is now ‘Little Algeria’ for the World Cup \u00bb, 24 juin 2026 (lien<\/a>) ; reportage vid\u00e9o Reuters.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Pendant la Coupe du monde, une ville unive\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lc_last_content_reviewed_at":"2026-07-20T10:00:00Z","_lc_last_fact_checked_at":"2026-07-20T10:00:00Z","_lc_fact_check_status":"verified_with_corrections","_lc_source_grade":"A","_lc_source_titles":"","_lc_source_publish_dates":"","_lc_source_accessed_at":"2026-07-20T10:00:00Z","_lc_claims_checked":"date_time: 2026\/06\/24","_lc_claims_corrected":"Unsupported material claims removed from public display; original content retained in protected post meta; URL retained as noindex historical archive.","_lc_unresolved_claims":"","_lc_correction_note_required":"1","_lc_reviewer_notes":"","_lc_fact_check_source_urls":["https:\/\/www.goodmorningamerica.com\/living\/story\/kansas-town-adopts-algerian-team-world-cup-133955004","https:\/\/www.kcur.org\/podcast\/kansas-city-today\/2026-06-24\/lawrence-is-now-little-algeria-for-the-world-cup"],"_lc_affiliate_widget_allowed":"","_lc_affiliate_widget_type":"","_lc_affiliate_widget_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45,227,720],"tags":[],"lc_primary_section":[777],"lc_location":[808],"lc_topic":[817],"lc_freshness":[833],"class_list":["post-8685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-cup","category-wc-news","category-world-cup-stories","lc_primary_section-historical-features","lc_location-canada","lc_topic-sports","lc_freshness-historical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lets-canada.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lets-canada.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lets-canada.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lets-canada.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8685"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lets-canada.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12094,"href":"https:\/\/lets-canada.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8685\/revisions\/12094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lets-canada.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lets-canada.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lets-canada.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8685"},{"taxonomy":"lc_primary_section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lets-canada.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lc_primary_section?post=8685"},{"taxonomy":"lc_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lets-canada.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lc_location?post=8685"},{"taxonomy":"lc_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lets-canada.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lc_topic?post=8685"},{"taxonomy":"lc_freshness","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lets-canada.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lc_freshness?post=8685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}