Abstract
ABSTRACT In March 1961, the football team of the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN) played five matches in Yugoslavia. Drawing on the theory of sports diplomacy, the paper studies the rationale of the host authorities behind the organization of these events as having both foreign and domestic political significance. Accordingly, we argue that the state-party elite organized the football tour of Yugoslavia not only to foster relations with the FLN but also to mobilize the domestic public’s support for the provision of material and diplomatic assistance to the Algerian independence movement. Differently from previous works, the paper analyses the FLN team’s matches primarily from the perspective of the host country. The research is based on the records from the archival fond of the Federation of Trade Unions of Yugoslavia kept in the Croatian State Archives and on the articles reporting on the football tour from relevant Yugoslav newspapers of the time.
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