The French Football Federation announced that Aurelien Chouamini, the Spanish Real Madrid midfielder, has been excluded from the national team’s roster during the current international break due to him suffering from a muscle injury.
Tshwamini (26 years old) did not participate in any match with his country’s national team under the leadership of the new coach, Zinedine Zidane, as he also missed the previous international break due to physical problems.
The French player joined his country's national team roster this month in preparation for playing two matches against Italy and Turkey in the European Nations League competitions.
Chouamini was present at the Clairefontaine Center, the training headquarters of the French national team, but it was decided after consultation with doctors to exclude him from the camp.
The French Football Federation confirmed, in its statement, that no replacement for the former Monaco player would be called.
The Algerian Football Federation announced on Tuesday the absence of midfielder Hicham Boudaoui from the national team squad due to injury before the two matches against Togo on November 14 and 17 in the third and fourth rounds of the 2027 African Cup of Nations qualifiers.
The Algerian Federation said in its account on the “X” platform about the French Nice player: “The player suffers from back pain, as a result of which he underwent an MRI examination on Tuesday evening, the results of which proved his inability to join the two matches.”
He added: “As a result of this, the national voter, Ibrahim Hammadi, decided to release him from training camp and summon Adam Zarqan (Belgian Royal Charleroi player), with the latter joining the National Technical Center in Sidi Moussa during the evening.”
The Algerian Federation announced on Monday the absence of Mohamed Bashir Belloumi and Joan Hajjam from the national team squad due to injury as well, to join goalkeeper Abdel Latif Ramadan, who was exempted from being in the camp due to the death of his father.
Brighton defender Hajam sat on the bench in his team's 2-0 win over Brentford in the English Premier League on Sunday, and striker Belloumi missed his team's 1-0 defeat by Hull City, the defending champion, Arsenal on Saturday.
The Algerian Federation said in a statement that coach Hamdani decided to summon defender Fahim Ben Issa Yahya, a player from Montova, competing in the Italian second division, to compensate for Hajam’s absence.
Al-Ittihad had previously announced that goalkeeper Ryan Wesley, Olympic Agbo player, would replace Abdel Latif Ramadan.
Algeria leads Group Nine with four points from two matches, one point ahead of Zambia and Togo, while Burundi is at the bottom of the standings with one point.
Italian Lorenzo Mozzetti, seeded third in the Stockholm Open Tennis Championship (250 points category), began his campaign in the competition with an easy victory over Briton Toby Samuel, to qualify for the quarter-finals of the tournament, which is held on hard courts inside an indoor hall.
Muzzetti needed only an hour and 11 minutes to defeat his British opponent with a score of 6/1, 6/4.
In the quarter-finals, the Italian star is waiting to face the winner of the match between Frenchman Ugo Hombre and Croatian Borna Goyo, which will be held on Wednesday evening.
Muzzetti, who has advanced to the quarter-finals for the seventh time in his various participations in this year's tournaments in 2026, hopes to continue his journey in Stockholm, to improve his current ranking by the end of the season, as he currently ranks 25th in the world.
The Italian player is armed with his good results recently, as he won 9 of the last 11 matches he played in all tournaments.
In another match in the round of 16, Argentine Thiago Agustín Tirante advanced, benefiting from the withdrawal of his compatriot Thomas Martin Echeveri, the fifth seed in this tournament.
In a third match, Russian Alexander Shevchenko defeated Frenchman Adrian Mannarino with a score of 6/1 and 6/3 in the round of 32 competitions.
Shevchenko will play in the round of 16 against Norwegian Casper Ruud, the second seed in the tournament.
Italian Lorenzo Sonego defeated Frenchman Quentin Alles with a score of 6/4 and 7/6, qualifying to face Chilean Alejandro Tabello, ranked fourth in this tournament.
With great difficulty, Serbian Miomir Kekmanovic defeated Frenchman Arthur Renderknesh after a three-set match, which ended with a score of 7/6 (7/4), 4/6, and 6/4.
Kekmanovic will play in the round of 16 against Danish Holger Röhn, who qualified by defeating Belgian Zizo Berges with a score of 6/3, 6/4.
The total prize money for the Stockholm Tennis Championship is 723,435 euros.
