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11:00 PM EDT
June 22, 2026
Group J

San Francisco Bay Area (Santa Clara)

🐾 Underdog match

About This Match

History meets hunger in what could be the breakout story of this World Cup! On one side, JORDAN — the debutants, the dreamers, the team carrying a nation that never thought it would see this stage, ready to write their first-ever chapter on football's grandest theater! On the other, the DESERT FOXES of ALGERIA — the giant-slayers who stunned West Germany in '82 and have spent four decades waiting to shock the world again, lean and lethal with that Saharan chip still burning on their shoulder! Compact, disciplined, and deadly on the break — when Algeria's pace meets Jordan's fearless ambition, somebody's fairytale is getting written tonight!

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Human Rights & Country Data

Algeria

Freedom House

Political rights and civil liberties score (higher = more free)

34/100

Reporters Without Borders

Press Freedom Index ranking (lower = more free, out of 180 countries)

119/180

UN Human Development Index

Human Development Index score (higher = more developed, 0–1 scale)

0.748/1.0

Transparency International

Perceived public sector corruption — higher is cleaner

36/100

ILGA World

Legal status of same-sex relationships

Criminalized