Kamel Soufi

Goalkeeper - USM Alger
26 Jan 2027
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Marked for Kamel Soufi

22 Edition

The USM Alger Chronicle

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match26 Dec 2026

Whatever happens, USM Alger do not lose

18 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Match28 Dec 2026

USM Alger up to position 1

41 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Player ratings28 Dec 2026

A brace, and Ghiles Guenaoui takes the afternoon — 8.35

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Ghiles Guenaoui provided it, and the 8.35 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Player ratings28 Dec 2026

Ricardo Mathias, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 8.46

A mark of 8.46 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Match26 Dec 2026

USM Alger make home a hard place to visit

10 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Squad28 Dec 2026

Ali Ghazal falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Match26 Dec 2026

Ghiles Guenaoui the difference as USM Alger beat ES Mostaganem

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Ghiles Guenaoui. 3‑1 against ES Mostaganem, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad28 Dec 2026

Ghiles Guenaoui in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at USM Alger this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The terraces28 Dec 2026

The crowd has taken to Dramane Kamagaté

At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

In brief

Back issues
18 Edition

The USM Alger Chronicle

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match30 Nov 2026

USM Alger are in among the leaders

Position 1 and 31 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Match28 Nov 2026

Still nobody has beaten USM Alger

The unbeaten run reaches 14. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Player ratings30 Nov 2026

Ricardo Mathias, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.76

A mark of 7.76 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad30 Nov 2026

Kamel Soufi keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” USM Alger may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad30 Nov 2026

Ali Ghazal in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at USM Alger this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad30 Nov 2026

Words at USM Alger training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ricardo Mathias is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

The terraces30 Nov 2026

USM Alger supporters have found a favourite in Ricardo Mathias

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Ricardo Mathias has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Match28 Nov 2026

USM Alger make home a hard place to visit

8 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Match28 Nov 2026

Ricardo Mathias sends USM Alger past Olympique Akbou

It finished 1‑0, and it was Ricardo Mathias’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to USM Alger.

In brief

17 Edition

The USM Alger Chronicle

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match21 Nov 2026

A 2-goal lead gone for USM Alger

It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. JS Kabylie kept coming because nothing stopped them, and USM Alger will be asked about the last half hour all week.

Match21 Nov 2026

Whatever happens, USM Alger do not lose

13 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Squad23 Nov 2026

Tempers go at USM Alger

Ghiles Guenaoui was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad23 Nov 2026

Words at USM Alger training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Zakaria Draoui is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad23 Nov 2026

Camilo Mancilla gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad23 Nov 2026

Costly mistake from Kamel Soufi

An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Kamel Soufi knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.

In brief