ZURICH, Sept 15 FIFA has hit Algerian striker Rafik Saifi with a 2,300-euro fine for having slapped a woman journalist at the end of the Algeria v United States match at the World Cup.

Saifi struck out at Asma Halimi, a journalist with Algerian daily Competition, in an interview area in the wake of the match the Americans won 1-0.

Haili, who had written an article on Saifi some time before the incident, managed to get a slap of her own in before complaining to FIFA, world football's governing body.—AFP