🚨 Riyad Mahrez announces his international retirement | OneFootball

A legend takes a bow.

In the wake of Algeria’s 2-0 defeat to Switzerland in the 2026 World Cup Round of 32 on Friday morning, Riyad Mahrez announced that he is retiring from international football! 

The 35-year-old winger will no longer wear the Algerian national team shirt.

With 119 caps to his name, Mahrez bids farewell to the Greens as an absolute legend of Algerian football.

The winner of AFCON 2019, he had sent his country into the final that year thanks to his mythical free-kick against Nigeria in the very last second.

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