Half Million Dinars... The Cost of Preparation For The World Cup

ِBasketball Federation is considering in depth to include Stankovic Cup to be held in Lebanon in August as a part of the plan to prepare the National Team to participate in the World Cup, organized by Turkey next summer

The Department of the Union in coordination with the concerned matters of art in the Federation and the Portuguese coach Mario Palma, to finalize the plan preparation, which is likely to also include tournaments in Italy, Philippines, Aksaray Turkey, Portugal and Croatia as well as to run six matches in China before heading to Philippines

Stankovic Cup, which continues its competitors until middle of August will be the strongest station setup for the team's international intentions, which will be the first historic Jordanian Basketball appearance, the team will play in the finals set by Argentina, leaders the world rankings, Serbia, Germany, Australia and Angola. The group matches will be held in the city of Aksaray

It is Expected that after a study whether to participate or not, to take direct action on the matter, with the continental shelf, especially since the team qualified to participate in the Stankovic as the holder of bronze Asian Cup final hosted by the city of Tianjin, Chinese, which resulted in the survival of superiority Iran at the expense of China, which has made second place, and the Lebanese team came in fourth place

The team won the title of the second Asian Stankovic Cup which was held in Kuwait in October 2008

A source in the Federation estimated the cost of the preparation and participation of the national team in World Cup by half a million dinars

The Federation focus is now on the marketing side in order to contribute to the security needs, in light of suffering from debt-riddled

Abbas continues his sparkling

In addition, Zaid Abbas the star of the NT return to Amman is close to join the exercises, following the successful completion of his mission with Shanghai Sharks in the Chinese Super League

According to the Jordanian Basketball Website, Abbas contributed yesterday in the leadership of Shanghai to reach the semi-final at the expense of Liaoning, after they scored three victories to one, which won in the last match of 123/117 after extra time

Shanghai, will play in the semi-final champions against Guangdong, while the other confrontation will be between Sein Jiang and Zhejiang Lions