I'm sad that Algieria will play without Tsabet. She must be injured becuase she played for the NT this year. I like ALG and I wanted them to win a match during OG. Maybe even they could fight against DOM
For me Algieria is the new quality in African volleyball. They have a nice setter and thanks to it their play is more...European?
hello 
6 or 7 major players are out including 2 of Algeria's best players 
: africa's best setter and captain oukazi for injury , and you have this mysterious case of tsabet who got married recently 
her last game was against taipei in april where she appeared completely out of shape. she received a lot of criticism so she either chose not to go to london or simply got her self kicked out for not being 100% into it but i doubt it since she's one of the most respected players of the team 
or maybe there are other reasons 
anyway they gave no explanation to her absence. by the way she's not playing in europe anymore unlike lydia oulmou (n° 17) who's been playing in france since 2005.
injured melinda hennaoui and oudni who both play in france are also absent. melinda's sister sehrine who spent her season on the bench with her french club became suddenly the first and only setter while she usually comes third in normal conditions.
also this improvised team includes some youth players who never played a competitive first team match 
Algeria's team in 2011 world cup :
and now:
see the difference? 
even this picture isn't accurate two more players were replaced after the official pic was taken.
3 months ago their aim was to beat gb and why not take a set or two from D.R. which seems impossible now.