7 essentials are absent from the basketball team in the Arab Championship

The coach of the national basketball teams, Dr. Munir bin Al -Habib, confirmed the absence of seven players of the main elements in the team’s list, today, to the Bahraini capital, Manama, to participate in the Arab teams championship, which starts next Friday, and extends until the second of next August.

Bin Al -Habib told «Emirates Today»: “The national team misses Hamid Abdullatif, Rashid Nasser, Mahmoud Wassim, Omar Al -Amri, Muhammad Asad, Rashid Ayman and Muhammad bin Khatim, for various reasons, including medical and job obligations.”

He added: «The list of the team heading to Bahrain includes 12 players, mixing young blood with the elements of experience, led by Sharjah playmaker de Marco, and the player of Al -Nasr Mamadou Andae, at a rate of 24 years of age, in a continuation of our strategy aimed at rebuilding the team.

He added: «The young blood confirmed that she is as confident, the most prominent of which is the young trio Abdulaziz Khalifa and Saif Al -Rashidi from Al -Wasl, and Hassan Abdullah from Al -Nasr, who received a rate of minutes of play ranging between 20 and 30 minutes in front of teams and strong teams, the size of Australia, China Taipei and Japan in the William Jones championship in which the team recently participated.

He said: «We have achieved several benefits from our participation in the (William Jones) championship as a preparation station for the Arab Championship, most notably playing eight heavy -caliber matches in nine consecutive days, and going out without injuries by distributing the physical effort to all players, as well as the restoration of the pivot player Ahmed Abdel Latif to his offensive as an offensive point of registration rates between 17 and 20 points, and Qais Omar was shared from the last two games in front of China Taipei and the Philippine (Strong Group) with a rate of 20 minutes playing, and the rate of 15 points per game.

Bin Al -Habib pointed to the strength of the confrontations that are waiting for “Al -Abyad” in the Arab Championship in Bahrain, and said: “The draw and the schedule of the matches, in a level, is included in the level, which serves our aspirations from participation, as we meet in the opening match next Friday with the Kuwait national team, followed by the meeting of Bahrain, and then Algeria, before undergoing the rest stage, then confrontation with the teams of Tunisia and Qatar, before our recent confrontation against Egypt.”