Former Brazil coach Dunga and ex-Germany manager Jurgen Klinsmann are on the shortlist to take over as coach of Algeria, a source close to the Algerian Football Federation claimed yesterday.

“Jurgen Klinsmann and Carlos Dunga are on the list of five coaches chosen by the FAF’s candidature committee to succeed Abdelhak Benchikha at the head of the Algerian national side,” said the source, quoted by the APS news agency.

The FAF committee reportedly whittled down the shortlist after receiving 43 applications for the job and the source said that further talks with the remaining candidates would be “initiated shortly”.

Meanwhile, FAF president Mohamed Raouraoua firmly denied reports of an approach to the former France coach Raymond Domenech, in an interview yesterday with influential Algerian daily Liberte.

A statement from Domenech’s advisors sent to AFP on Monday claimed he had been approached by the Algerian Football Federation but had not made an application for the post vacated by Ben-chikha.

Aside from Dunga and Klinsmann, Bosnian Vahid Halilhodzic was also cited as one of the favourites to take over at the Algeria helm.

Halilhodzic, a former coach of the Ivory Coast national team, is scheduled to meet Raouraoua in Paris on Friday.

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