Soccer Football - Africa Cup of Nations 2019 - Final - Senegal v Algeria - Cairo International Stadium, Cairo, Egypt - July 19, 2019 Algeria's Baghdad Bounedjah and team mates celebrate winning the Africa Cup of Nations REUTERS/Suhaib Salem
CAIRO (Reuters) - Algeria forward Baghdad Bounedjah spent the last few minutes of their quarter-final against Ivory Coast weeping on the substitutes bench, thinking he might have cost his team the match.
On Friday, the 27-year-old Qatar-based player's tears of despair turned to unmitigated joy as he scored the goal which won his country the Africa Cup of Nations for only the second time and the first in 29 years.
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