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Adidas acknowledged on Friday that the design for its new jersey collection for Algeria’s national football team was inspired by Morocco’s zellige mosaic pattern, resolving a dispute with the Moroccan government that had accused the sports apparel company of “cultural appropriation” of its heritage. Morocco’s Ministry of Youth, Culture and Communication demanded last month that Adidas pull the new collection off the market alleging that the design on the jerseys of the rival North African team depicts a traditional mosaic of coloured earthenware tiles, known in Morocco as zellige. A lawyer for…