Brazil established relations with Algeria following the independence of Algeria from France at 1962.
Recently, two countries have engaged in a closer relationship between Brazil and Algeria. In 2015, Brazil considered Algeria as a "partner of choice",[1] and has been wishing to forge a closer relations between two states.[2]
Sports
The Algerian football team during 2014 FIFA World Cup had drawn a significant impressions among the Brazilian Arab community as for being the only Arab country that qualified to the tournament. Algeria had played a very successful tournament and qualified to the round of sixteen for the first time with a passive football style. Later, the Algerian U23 team had also gone to Brazil for the 2016 Summer Olympics, although not successful like the senior side two years ago.
