By Our Reporter
THE President of the Nigeria
Basketball Federation, Eng. Musa Kida strongly believes that the Women’s Senior
National team will fly the country’s flag high and give a good representation
of Africa when the 2018 FIBA Women’s World Cup tips off in Spain.
Kida said the present
players currently in camp in Lagos are the best set of players that are
available to Nigeria across the world.
Speaking on Monday which
marked exactly one year D’Tigress won the 2017 Afrobasket Championship in Mali
to qualify for the World Cup in Spain, the NBBF president said he is hopeful of
a good performance.
He said despite the 2017 set
going on an 8 game unbeaten run to clinch the Afrobasket title after 13 years
of endless wait, the present set of players are an upgrade of the 2017 team.
“I think this is one of the
best women’s team that we have, going to such a tournament and I am also very hopeful
and quite encouraged by what I have seen them do.”
He assured that the
federation will work closely with the Technical crew to ensure that the best
players are picked from the pool available, to represent the country at the
world cup.
Kida restated the NBBF’s
commitment to giving all the support necessary to the team to put up an
excellent show when the world cup starts on Saturday, 22nd of September in
Tenerife, Spain.
“My commitment to the
country and basketball stakeholders is that we are going to put up a very
excellent show, so let the game begin.”
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