# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mahieddine-khalef
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:12:37.644Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mahieddine-khalef"
name: "Mahieddine Khalef"
slug: "mahieddine-khalef"
description: "Mahieddine Khalef was an Algerian football player and manager. Most notably he was the co-manager of the Algeria national team in the 1982 FIFA World Cup, together with Rachid Mekloufi, where Les Fennecs caused a sensation by defeating European reigning champions West Germany in their first World Cup appearance. Despite this achievement, Algeria went on to be eliminated at the end of the group stage, thanks to a convenient result for both West Germany and Austria in their fixture, in what is known as the Disgrace of Gijón. Austrian player Reinhold Hintermaier later admitted that that match was fixed. Khalef died in Algiers on 10 December 2024, at the age of 80."
tagline: "Algerian footballer (1944–2024)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1944-01-17"
deathDate: "2024-12-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.53
  momentum:             7.247191011235955
  historical:           14.93297866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Махеддін Халеф"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "محيي الدين خالف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "محيى الدين خالف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahieddine_Khalef"
    title: "Mahieddine Khalef"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahieddine_Khalef"
    title: "Mahieddine Khalef"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahieddine_Khalef"
    title: "Mahieddine Khalef"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahieddine_Khalef"
    title: "Mahieddine Khalef"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%AD%DB%8C%DB%8C%E2%80%8C%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%86_%D8%AE%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81"
    title: "محیی‌الدین خالف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahieddine_Khalef"
    title: "Mahieddine Khalef"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahieddine_Khalef"
    title: "Mahieddine Khalef"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mah%C3%ADdin_H%C3%A1lef"
    title: "Mahídin Hálef"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahieddine_Khalef"
    title: "Mahieddine Khalef"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://kab.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me%E1%B8%A5yeddin_Xalef"
    title: "Meḥyeddin Xalef"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahieddine_Khalef"
    title: "Mahieddine Khalef"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahieddine_Khalef"
    title: "Mahieddine Khalef"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%84%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%85%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BD"
    title: "Халеф, Махеддин"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahieddine_Khalef"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhyiddin_Halif"
    title: "Muhyiddin Halif"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump