Al Gharafa sign Algerian international Yacine Brahimi from Al Rayyan

QNADohaQatar’s Al Gharafa club on Tuesday announced that it has signed up Algerian international Yacine Brahimi for one season, from Qatar’s Al Rayyan club.Brahimi, aged 32, is considered one of the best players in the Qatar Stars League throughout his playing for Al Rayyan in the last three years and he also won the league’s top-scorer joint title with Qatar international Akram Afif with 15 goals in the 2019-20 season.The playmaker also emerged strongly for his country Algeria in 2021 Arab Cup which took place in Qatar, and won the Golden Ball award as the best player in the tournament after he contributed to his country’s crowning the title by defeating Tunisia in the final.It is noteworthy that Brahimi had joined Al Rayyan in July 2019 on a three-year contract, coming from Porto, after he started his professional career at Rennes in the French league, and had another professional experience with Clermont Foot in France, and moved in 2012 from Rennes to the Spanish League with Granada FC, before moving to Porto in 2014, which he stayed with for 5 years until 2019 when he joined Qatar’s Al Rayyan.Al Rayyan extend Chilean coach Cordova’s contractMeanwhile, the Al Rayyan Club announced the extension of the contract of Chilean coach Nicolas Cordova to lead their first football team next season.In a tweet, the club confirmed the continuation of the former coach of the Qatari Olympic team at the head of the technical management of the team. The club’s management had hired Cordova at the end of last season to succeed Frenchman Laurent Blanc, despite his supervision at the time of the Qatari team’s under-23 training after the approval of the Qatar Federation.Nicholas Cordova led Al Rayyan team to the first round of the AFC Champions League for the first time in the team’s participation in the continental championship. The coach previously coached the Chile youth national team, Palestino clubs and Santiago WanderersAl Arabi extend coach Younis Ali’s contractAl Arabi club announced the renewal of its contract with national coach Younis Ali for another season, in order to lead the club’s first football team in the new season 2022-2023.Al Arabi had signed with Younis Ali in July last year to succeed Icelandic coach Heimir Hallgrimsson and he managed to lead the team to the fourth place in the Qatar League last season 2021-2022. Ali won with him the title of the second edition of the Qatar Football Association Cup for the same season by winning the tournament final against Lusail (3-2).Coach Younis Ali has previously trained the Qatar team as well as Al Markhiya and achieved good results with both the teams.