Ali Maali (Dubai)
Our national men’s basketball team will begin its first training camp in Serbia, starting tomorrow, “Tuesday”, in preparation for the next important stage, which is considered one of the most important stages of restoring the game to its position at the Asian level, where the Asian Cup qualifiers in the Qatari capital, Doha, are in their second phase.
The “Al-Abyad” list in the camp includes the group of players: Qais Omar, Muhammad Abdul-Latif, Hamed Abdul-Latif (Shabab Al-Ahly), Rashid Ayman, Muhammad Mahmoud Saleh (Al-Wasl), Hassan Abdullah, Rashid Salem Al-Nuaimi (Al-Nasr), Rashid Nasser, Jassim Muhammad, Omar Khaled, Mahmoud Waseem, Hazza Omar, Muhammad Mahmoud Al Hashimi (Sharjah), and Muhammad Tawfiq Al Jasmi (Al Bataeh).
The delegation is headed by Abdullatif Al-Fardan, Vice President of the Federation, Chairman of the National Teams Committee, accompanied by Rashid Abdullah, the national team manager, Abdullah Madani, administratively, and the technical staff led by Dr. Munir bin Al-Habib, Salem Ateeq and Jassim Abdul Redha as assistants.
Major General Ismail Al Gergawi, President of the Federation, held a meeting with the players after the last training that took place at the Salah Al-Din Hall in Dubai, during which he talked about the goals set for the next stage, and said: We must continue with the boom that the game is currently experiencing, and raise the level, as our international and continental classification has not improved. Only after we achieved many victories recently, whether by winning the Gulf Games title or in the first stage of the Asian qualifiers.
Al Gergawi called on the players to focus fully in the first camp in Serbia, which lasts until the ninth of this October, and then move to another camp in Turkey during the period from 10 to 15 of the same month, and that participation in any friendly tournament there or even just daily training As a special tournament to make the most of this important period in preparing the papers for the upcoming Asian qualifiers.
Al Gergawi praised the efforts exerted by the National Teams Committee in the current period and with them the technical staff, as well as the technical and physical condition that the team has been experiencing for some time, which made him return to control the Gulf Championship again, which Al-Abyad missed for a long time, and said: There is a new group and many young players, on them To benefit from the experiences of the current team, such as Jassim Muhammad, Omar Khaled, Rashid Nasser, and Qais Omar, in order to be able to preserve the gains made recently.
Abdullatif Al-Fardan pointed out that the current mix between experience and youth in the national team has very positive indicators, and there is a state of great harmony between all the elements. .
Dr. Mounir bin Al Habib, Technical Director, noted that the current stage, until the date of the second round of the Asian qualifiers next February in Qatar, is the most important in the ranking of the papers. He said: We must make the most of the Serbia and Turkey camps, especially since the local and international calendar will not allow us to establish Other camps, and the current state of focus must continue for long periods to come until we achieve our ambition to qualify for the Asian finals.
Jassim Mohammed, “captain” of the team, thanked the federation for its efforts and said: It is the turn of the players to respond in the upcoming tournaments to confirm that we are walking together in one boat whose goal is to maintain the first place in the Gulf, and to enter the atmosphere of the Asian championships in a manner befitting the Emirati basket.
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