Summoned by Vladimir Petković for the next international break, Mitchell Weiser therefore joins the great family of Algerian football… like his grandfather.
Her family, through her grandfather’s cousin (the link is distant), contributed to the independence of Algeria. Saliha Ouatiki, her distant great-aunt, is a martyr, assassinated in December 1960 in Belcourt, Algiers.
Mitchell Weiser does not know Algeria, and his link with it is not obvious, it is true. However, his grandfather played in the youth teams of JS Kabylie. He then married a woman of German nationality and transmitted the nationality to his daughter, then to his grandson. It will surely take a lot more for Mitchell Weiser, who could carry the Ouatiki name in the selection, to be accepted… but such data has the merit of existing.
DZfoot
