National Team Has The Certain To Pass Philippines In Asia Championship

The national team of basketball is pushing today with all the ability and determination, strength and determination, in order to reach the semi-finals of Asia 25, when it corresponds to the Philippines in the opening quarter-final round at the nine in the morning in the Chinese city of Tian Jin host the tournament qualifier Turkey in the World 2010.

In the case of his victory today, the team will show up for the first time among the top four in the continent, where the best achieved place was the fifth in the previous version, which was organized by Japan before two years.

The national team has shown remarkable development in this tournament, at the level of performance and results, and achieved five consecutive victories, exceeds in the first round of Lebanon 84/67 and Indonesia 105/47, the United Arab Emirates 79/67, and won the second round of Kazakhstan 98/80, and Qatar 74/60, before receive their first loss at the hands of China 83/89 The owner of land, the public and the great achievements, after stubbornly embarrassing and many times the result has not been resolved, but in the last seconds.

But this loss did not prevent them from taking the easier path in the quarter,where they will meet Philippines, the third of the first group , which is easier to rival than South Korea, which will face Lebanon, and Iran, holder of the title, which will play with Qatar, and they are the two teams, which ranked third and fourth respectively in the second group , in which the national team, came second behind China, which in turn will be met with Chinese Taipei.

The top four winners in the quarter-finals, which will be a way for the knockout final, and shall be the losers in the race and just play with the centers of 5-8, and run the tournament the national team to play with Iran in the semi-final will be held on Saturday, and a game between China and Lebanon.

Caution is required

Although the balance is tilted towards the national team to rival the Philippines, but the players and coaching staff are aware that there is no room for complacency, with no chance of compensation, and any effort to subvert the surprise and the work of long years.

Consequently, the team is keen to deal seriously with the matter, they have used the rest they took yesterday by having a strong training in the Nankai University, In addition to the technical staff composed of Portuguese Mario Palma, Mario Gomez and Yousef Abu Bakr and Ruslan Soobzokov to hold meetings with players and discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the Philippine team through a full explanation of the use of video footage of the match in the tournament.

It is expected that Sam Douglas and Rasheim Wright take Control in watching Raymond Kirby, Anthony Brand, while expected to be a preference under the basket for Ayman Dais and Zaid Al Khas and logistical support of Zaid Abbas at the expense of Tolafa Boljsi , Cyrus Baggio or Jr. Miller.

The team scored a victory on a broad difference of 31 points Philippines 90/59, in the opening match in the latest version of the William Jones Cup on the nineteenth of July, but observers point to a striking development in the group level, as evidenced by the results achieved in the Asia Championship, where crushed Sri Lanka in the first round 115/31, higher than Japan 78/69 and 56/69 lost to Korea, and beat in the second round of Taipei 77/70 and 85/71 on Kuwait, and with great difficulty, lost with Iran 78/88.

Idais: a favorable opportunity

Giant said the national team giant Ayman Dais said that he and his colleagues are determined to make every possible effort in order to win today and reach the semi-finals.
Idais, who was speaking to the Special Envoy of the Union Sports Information added: I believe that the opportunity to win a World Cup qualifying Turkey is there , the team is ready, and we look forward to move forward and invest historic opportunity.

And about China game : "We had a big game and we couldve win if we were lucky to reconcile the payment of Three, where we had 23 times and only five of them hit the target, by 22 percent .. which is low.

Rasheim top scorers

The statistics released at the end of the second round to make the national team player Rasim Wright of the tournament's leading scorer at 20 points in the game, ahead of Mohammad Samad (7 .19) and the Uzbek Kozlov (4 .19), while the top Iranian player Hamed Hadadi build a list of follow-up of the best players under the basket Ripound rate of (3 .12) in the match, beating China's Jian Lian, Assistant in the area of the scroll is the national team player maker Sam Douglas finished third after the Iranian and Lebanese Samad Ali Mahmoud.

Aljgber follows the delegation

Lana Aljgber Olympic Committee Secretary-General makes a daily contact with the administrator of the delegation Yanal Alkhas to check on conditions and needs of the team, stressing on the Olympic Committee care, headed by His Royal Highness Prince Faisal Bin Al-Hussein to provide all the support and attention to the team, which provides an excellent level in the tournament, which is expected to continue to reap victories and achieve the desired results.

Program matches the quarter (Amman time)
Jordan - Philippines9 am

Iran - Qatar 11 am

Chinese Taipei – China 2 pm

Lebanon - S. Korea 4 pm