May 20, 2010 in News
Prepared by Zoran Radovic (FIBA development director) in Geneva, 27”’ April 2010
Meetings held on various occasions:
September 1, 2009 in Hot Topic, News
The senior men’s team recently took part in the African Championship in Libya. Despite this being an opportunity for South Africa to go out there and create relationships with other African nations and see how we could learn from them, our national body Basketball South Africa (BSA) missed that opportunity with various blunders along the way… Then there was the Florida State University visit to our shores that went unnoticed, well almost but BSA didn’t cover itself in glory in that scenario either (No proper kit, lack of proper communication).
With BSA being in office for almost a year, there have been a lot of positive to come out of this new regime and other things that have remained the same or gotten worse. With everyone waiting to see what structures and plans that they would put in place to lift the sport from it’s smouldering ashes, I feel that they might have missed an opportunity to engage the various stake holders and get the help that they need.
Anyway I would like to focus on the men national teams that have had a rough time of late. If there is a positive to come out of the new regime, it is the amount of games that the various national teams have participated in. From the U16s competing in Zimbabwe with dignity to our ladies senior team qualifying outright for the African Championship later this year and the Men senior team going to represent the country in Libya.
That’s was quite the busy program for the teams but the thing that BSA didn’t look at is the finer details, it’s all good to say that we are taking part in competitions all over the world but if you don’t take care of how the teams will prepare leading up to such events or how they will get to those events and be treated then they might as well not enter and save everyone the headache involved. This is why I believe that instead of jumping onto all these tournaments, BSA would have been better served making sure that the various structures within the national setup are ready for international competition. I am sure that the players and coaches would have been ok to wait another year without competition if they knew that when it eventually came back it was going to be worth it. Read the rest of this entry →
Just before our national team went over to Libya to represent the nation at the African Championship 2009, I was listening to SAfm when to my surprise I heard that they would have an insert on Basketball which would touch on the upcoming NBA-Basketball without borders Africa and the sport in South Africa in general… I decided to track down that particular interview and share it with the basketball public…
Speaking on SAfm Sport Special on Sunday 2 August 2009, Dr Ralethe, who is one of the BSA vice president, touched on a few topics during his interview… Read the rest of this entry →
August 16, 2009 in News
TRIPOLI (Afrobasket 2009) – Angola has captured tonight in the Africa Union Hall in Tripoli, Libya, its sixth consecutive title in a much contested game against Cote d’Ivoire (82 – 72).
It is the 10th overall title for the basketball crazy country from Southern Africa, and Angola will represent Africa as reigning champion at the FIBA World Championship for the third time in a row.
The “Elephants”, the nickname for the team from Cote d’Ivoire, gave the Angolans a tough battle. After finishing the first quarter with a 19-15 lead, both teams went to the locker room with tight 35-34 advantage for Cote d’Ivoire.
Angola took charge in the third quarter but was never really able to pull away. The lead changed a total of 16 times, and the score was tied no less than 6 times during the game.
Angola’s experience with a team that plays together in almost the same composition since 4 years made the difference.
Leading scorers for Angola were Carlos Morais with 21 points, whilst Joaquim Gomes and Olimpio Cipriano added 16 points each.
Pape Amagou led the way for Cote d’Ivoire with 18 points.
July 22, 2009 in News
1. Composition of groups:
Group A: Libya, Nigeria, CĂ´te d’Ivoire and South Africa
Group B: Angola, Mozambique, Egypt and Mali
Group C: Cameroon, Senegal, Congo and Central africa
Group D: Cape Verde, Maroc, Rwanda and Tunisia
The groups A and B will play at Benghazi while the groups C and D will play in Tripoli.
Please find below the games schedule Read the rest of this entry →
