Basketball team marched to the World Cup...historic success and the price too high

The Basketball Federation "dissolved" paid a high price for the policy of "Open Object", which marched with a view to the rehabilitation of the national team to World Cup finals, although the unprecedented historical achievement has been achieved, and Jordan had the greatest honor of appearing on the global stage in Turkey in 2010, but many people do not know by numbers the preparation of the team process particularly in terms of the number of participants and the financial costs

The national team played over the past three years, since late 2006 until the end of this year "166" legal game in both tournaments official or friendly, and won "126" games and lost 40 games, with a very high success rate of 77%

The team played 89 official matches in the Arab or continental championships, won 70 times and lost only 19 times the success rate is considered excellent according to international standards amounted to about 80%, and at the level of friendly matches they played 77 matches, won 56 and lost 21, a success rate of 75%

According to a reading , the Basketball Federation has spent 600 thousand dinars to the national team until the end of 2007, but this figure rose to more than one million in 2008 due to the global financial crisis, and the high cost of the camps and international participants, and may cause the accumulation of debt on the Common until it reached at 2009 million and 200 thousand before making Olympic Committee's decision to dissolve the Union

The Union has started since they had the Portuguese coach Mario Palma in the first of the month of September (September) in 2006 to pay the monthly high salaries for the technical staff. And then follow that specific financial allocations for the players as long as they are playing for the calculation of the national team, in line with the draft of professionalism that has been applied As of 2003-2004 season

National Team Participations

2006: the national team Participated in, King Abdullah II tournament, and has finished third behind Egypt and Lebanon's sports, and then participated in the Asian Games in Doha and had finished fourth behind China, Qatar and Iran

2007: the team participated in William Jones championship and has the first place, beating teams such as the ancient Lebanon, Iran, South Korea, then participated in the Asia Championship in Japan, won fifth place behind Iran, Lebanon, Korea, Kazakhstan, and then made King Abdullah II tournament ahead of Tunisia in the final , and the team succeeded in achieving Arab Cup for the first time in history, beating hosts Egypt in the final game, but the loser returned a few days after, and revenge for himself in the finals of the Arab

2008: The team won the West Asian qualifiers behind Lebanon and in front of Syria and Palestine, and then won the title of William Jones for the second year in a row, and was crowned champion of the champions of Qatar and the Asian Cup in front of Qatar, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, India, and behind Tunis in the Arab Cup

2009: the team Participated in Italy torments and finished the fourth behind Italy, Greece, Croatia, Italy, and then participated in the Qatar International Championship and achieved second place behind Qatar,and in front of Egypt and Tunisia, and then second place in William Jones championship after 7 victories and the withdrawal to Iran, then the timing of historical involvement in Asia came, where the tournament culminated in the team bronze medal behind China and Iran and for qualification to World Cup