Baghdad – IA – Hussein Ammar
Our national basketball team will meet its Syrian counterpart this evening, Sunday, in the framework of the friendly Beirut International Championship competitions, hosted by Lebanon.
The assistant coach of our national team, Aqeel Najm, told the (INA): “Participating in the first Beirut Cup tournament is an ideal preparatory station before participating in the first window of the joint qualifiers for the Asian Championship and the World Cup, which is scheduled to start on the twenty-third of February.” “Next.”
Najm added, “Our team played a good match in the first match against Lebanon despite the loss, and the players performed their duties, but the technical staff wanted to try out the players and did not take the match completely seriously, but rather dealt with its atmosphere cordially, so we seek during today’s match to correct the mistakes, play more effectively, and win the match.” “For our benefit.”
Najm continued, “Our team is waiting for another match with the Palestine national team and then returning to Iraq to face the Saudi national team on the twenty-third of this month within the Asian window in the People’s Hall in Baghdad.”
The draw, which was held on the 19th of last December in the Qatari capital, Doha, placed our team in the fourth group with Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Palestine.