Nigeria senior men basketball
team D’Tigers will travel to Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso on Friday for the first
leg tie against the Burkinabe in group-E double qualifiers for the 29th Afrobasket
and the 11th All Africa Games.
The Nigeria Basketball
Federation President (NBBF), Tijjani Umar will lead Nigerian side which is made
up of an 18-man list to Burkinabe on Monday March 16 with the return leg slated
for March 25 in Nigeria.
It was revealed
that the squad is made up of twelve players with ten of them drawn from the
Nigerian DStv Premier Basketball League and two foreign based players.
According to the Nigeria team
,they hope of qualifying for her 17th outing at Africa biggest
basketball showpiece rest on coaches Sani Ahmed and Ayinla Johnson and twelve
players which includes Olumide Oyedeji (centre); Ejike Ugboaja (forward);
Stanley gumut (forward); Abubakar Usman (guard); Matthew Onmonya (forward); and
Ibrahim Yusuf (guard/forward).
Other players in the squad
are Adeolu Olaiya Ojo (guard); Abdulwahab Yakubu (guard); Abdulwahab Yahaya
(forward); Azuoma Dike (guard); Dele Ademola (forward) and Abayomi Oyeniyi
(forward). The delegation also has Muktar Khaleh, Patrick Okeke (S.G, NBBF);
Patrick Omorodion (media); Dr. Ohida Suleiman (team doctor) and Dayo Ogunkunle
(physio).
According to the team head
Coach Sani Ahmed said that the team will not disappoint Nigerians as the
players and its handlers has its mind set for picking the sole slot in the
group.
They respect their opponent
(Burkina Faso) but they are not capable of stopping them from qualifying for
both the Afrobasket and All Africa Games as they looking forward to challenging
for the Afrobasket title and also defending our All Africa Games gold medal won
four years ago in Mozambique.
Coach Sani added that his
players are ready to prove that they are worthy ambassadors of Nigeria
basketball and mentally, physically and psychological prepared for the two-leg
qualifier.
Coach Ahmed concluded that,the
team will fly to Lagos from their Abuja camp from where they expected to
connect an afternoon flight aboard ASky airline.
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