Baghdad – IA
Our national basketball team will meet its Palestinian counterpart this Tuesday evening at (Ghazir) Hall in the third match of the Beirut International Friendly Championship hosted by Lebanon, which is an ideal preparation station for the Mesopotamian Lions before participating in the first window of the joint qualifiers (Asia and the World Cup) scheduled to begin. On the twenty-third of February.
The correspondent of the Iraqi News Agency (INA) said, “The Mesopotamia Lions team, led by coach Milan Nesic, is looking forward to playing a match at a different level than its opening match against the host Lebanese team, in an effort to achieve a positive result against the Palestinian team, which is considered one of the strong and developed teams.” During recent years, especially since it has professional players in Arab leagues and American universities in its ranks, in addition to defeating the Syrian team in the first round of the competition by two points (66-64).”
He added, “The technical staff of our national team will seek to complete the process of determining the technical and physical levels of the players, in addition to applying the tactical vocabulary and raising the harmony factor among them in order to enter the first window of the joint qualifiers for the Asian Nations and the World Cup, as the Lebanon group comes as a continuation of the two internal camps.” The former in Baghdad and Dohuk.
It is noteworthy that our national team lost its first match to its Lebanese counterpart by a margin of three points with a score of (68-71), while it won its second match against its Syrian counterpart with a score of (66-55) points.
