Algeria seek redemption against World Cup debutants Jordan after Argentina rout

On the sun-warmed pitch of Santa Clara, two nations arrived carrying the weight of unfinished stories — Algeria seeking to prove that humiliation at the hands of greatness is not destiny, and Jordan hoping to show that a promising beginning can become something more enduring. The World Cup has always been a stage where identity is tested as much as tactics, and Group J offered both teams a rare, clarifying moment: win, and the journey continues; falter, and the dream quietly closes. In the larger human story of sport, this was a match about the distance between what a team believes itself to b