Prince Faisal Honored The National Team

Prince Faisal bin Hussein, head of Olympic Committee honored yesterday the members of the basketball national team whom got the bronze medal-of the 25 Asia Championship which finished in the Chinese city of Tianjin last week and finalist for

The World Cup to be hosted by Turkey next year

And he handed during the ceremony which was held at City Hall Ya Hala Hussein Youth financial rewards to the players and the administrative and technical staffs, totaling (279) thousand dinars at a rate of ten thousand dinars for each player and they are... Zaid AlKhas, Sam Douglas, Ayman Idais, Zaid Abbas Islam Abbas, Enver Soobzokov, Fadel Najjar, Wesam AlSous, Moussa Al Awadi, Mohammed Hamdan, Jamal Abu Shamala, Rasheim Wright, Jamal Maaytah, the last two did not attend the ceremony because of their presence outside the country, and Coach Portuguese Mario Palma got bonus amounted to 120 thousand dinars, as was the team manager - head of the delegation obtained Yanal Alkhas and training members :Mario Gomes, Yusuf Abu Bakr and Ruslan soobzokov to honor distinguished

His Highness Prince Faisal praised for the stars and their commitment and their determination to represent their best, also commended the efforts of the technical and Administrative

His Highness talked to the players saying: you have achieved a great achievement and finished an important step on the beginning of the road, and we look forward for more in the next phase

According to the Olympic Committee adviser Walid Abu Obaid, Prince Faisal renewed confidence in the coaching and administrative teams, explaining that he will

Provide the necessary support to the team which has become a universal character

Lana Jaghbir Secretary General of the Olympic Committee has initiated celebration with a brief word, saying that the achievement is the result of support and attention of your Highness in sports, and in a sustained effort to develop

The center giant of the national team, Ayman Idais expressed in a statement to Alrai his deep thanks and gratitude for the honor given to the national team of His Highness Prince Faisal

Zaid Alkhas Story...

Today's story join between the achievement unique to basketball, where the Jordanian youth team qualified for the World Cup in 1995 and here is the men's national team qualified for the 2010 World Cup after getting the bronze

The story told by Basketball star and Captain of the national team, Zaid AlKhas, who was elected one of the stars of young and men team

Captain Zaid AlKhas went back in memory where the Asian championship held in the Philippine capital of Manila during the period from 3-11 May, in the first round began to beat heavily on Hong Kong 71/24, and then to Singapore 88/35 and lost to South Korea 61/75 to settle in second place of the group

In the second round , our group included China, Philippines, Japan and the beginning was very difficult infront of Philippines as we won on them in the last second 72/71, and lost to China 49/88 before we achieve an easy win at the expense of Japan 73/56 and within it we have reached to the semi-finals

Samir Jankat Vice President of the federation and then President of the Jordanian delegation to the championship interfered: After the stunning win on the Philippines, I called the technical staff to the meeting immediately, and asked Murad Barakat Can you beat China tomorrow and he said "No....” I asked him to rest players against China the following day, even if lost by fifty points, to take advantage of physical inventory to Japan squad which will be stressful from the meeting with the Philippines, and was thus.. Philippines barely were able to reverse the result and won on Japan which lost morale with the physical inventory in front of our team

Zaid goes again to our play with South Korea, the tournament champion; we lost 51/69 to keep us a new opportunity to compete for the World Cup finals for the first time in the history of Jordan, the meeting for third and fourth places, which brought us to meet Thailand and have succeeded in crossing to Greece 62/56

Captain Alkhas, who was wearing Jersey number 13 continue his talking : The team that managed to win the bronze Asia in Manila included Maen Odeh, Ashraf Samara, Fadi Saqqa, Ehab Msseh, Mahmoud Shaaban, Samer El Niño, Ramsey Ghoneim, Raed Ghosheh, Saif Alda', Zaid Zu'mot, and Ziad Nagoj is the same that participated in the World Cup held in Greece during the period from 12-22 july

He adds: It is true that we went through eight meetings at the World Cup and have not been able to achieve any victory but we were proud of performance that we have made despite the fact that the period of preparation for the event was short and included only one camp. In the first round we went through three meetings with Italy and lost 64/87, and with the United States and lost 51/61, the third meeting , the result was double against Australia 35/78

In determining the centers, we met with the Asian champions South Korea and lost in front of 60/68, and then we met with Puerto Rico and the result was 68/87 and 53/81 against China, we met again with Italy 45/65 was finally the end of participation was with South Korea 61/69, and the best meeting for me was in front of Puerto Rico as I recorded 22 points during the meeting while the first meeting with South Korea was the most prominent for me as I recorded 20 points and successfully 16 follow-up, including seven offensive

Alkhas continued: For me personally, I came in the tournament ranked 19 in terms of scorers, scoring 115 points in the tournament at 4.14 points a game and I came rank fifth in terms of follow-up rate of observers 10 balls at the meeting, a balanced ratio between Recordings and follow-up defense 1,5 and 9,4 Offensive

But despite the achievement of 1995,Alkhas who was requested by the U.S. national team to a university there, consider that achievement of 2009 the most important in his career by reaching the World Cup finals for the first time with the men’s team and getting the bronze medal with a win of third place in the finals of Asia, which was held in China

Although the injury he suffered which made him absent from a number of meetings of the Asian Championship but more importantly, we reach the World Cup Turkey, which will be the last station in my career

And AlKhas said: Now we have rest before starting the preparation phase, which must be long-term include the camps with a high level and includes games with teams like universal France and Spain, after focusing on increasing fitness level

Alkhas concluded: we must leave a footprint on the 2010 World Cup and not limited to participation only, before couple days ago the Portuguese coach Palma held a press conference and said that the planning which occur in the first stage includes overcome the first round and reach the second round of the tournament

Olympic Committee honors the basketball team .. Today

His Highness Prince Faisal bin Hussein, head of the Olympic Committee Sponsor on one afternoon a ceremony honoring the national team of basketball, organized by the Olympic Committee in City Hall Ya Hala Hussein Youth

According to the press release issued by the Information Office of the Olympic Committee, a press conference will follow the ceremony

His Highness Prince Faisal has directed to honor the basketball team, who recently returned from China with the historic qualification for the first time for the World Cup to be held in Turkey next year

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

Prince Faisal Congratulates commander of the homeland for the historic achievement

His Highness Prince Faisal bin Hussein, head of the Olympic Committee as soon as he returned to home from a business trip in Germany to honor the National team, which recently returned from China out by the historic qualification for the first time for the World Cup to be held in Turkey next year. The team will be honored Monday at the headquarters of the Olympic city of Al Hussein Youth and comes under a policy of honoring the Olympic Committee and the vision of His Highness Prince Faisal to give athletes of the achievements of great importance in the tribute

In this regard, His Highness said: We will meet on Monday to honor the constellation of our athletes were recruited loyal to the homeland and have demonstrated our confidence and trust of their homeland, they represented Jordan the best representation and demonstrated to the world on the strength of the sport of Jordan .. We are all proud of these heroes and we are confident to complete the process of their success in the coming period, and I take this opportunity to extend my name and congratulate all the athletes in this sport to qualify for the first of His Majesty King Abdullah II Bin Al Hussein, the sponsor sports and athletes

His Highness the President of Olympic Committee since the beginning of a journey and prepare for the Asian Championship, World Cup qualifying gave his instruction to make all available resources to facilitate the task team, and he followed every small and large in this regard, as he was following up on each team matches and lasting contact reassuring and congratulating each win

The Jordanian sport has seen since Prince Faisal Bin Al Hussein had the Olympic committee leadership a remarkable development at all levels and achieved a qualitative leap and entered the world in more than one occasion, Jordan hosted during the past period many world championships with great success

Palma: We will not go to Turkey to visit, but to compete

National team coach Portuguese Mario Palma Afflicts to develop a detailed plan for the team to prepare for the World Cup organized by Turkey next year, during intensive working meetings held in Lisbon with his assistant Mario Gomes during the vacation he spends in his country beginning this week

Palma through a news conference at the Basketball Federation with the attendance of the Federation manager Tayseer sa’adeh and the sports activities manager in Al Hussein Sports City Radwan Abadi Revealed the initial features of the plan for the preparation for participation in the World Cup. The plan which will apply early October next includes a training camp in Europe includes robust experimental games, in addition to the posts of Foreign Affairs at the level of team and Zain Group, which includes nine of the team Stars

League with the participation of twp professionals

He said he would advise to set up league with two professional, stressing that it was not possible to prepare and develop the team without the cooperation and support of the clubs, adding that he will present the details and financial costs on the Union who will assume the responsibility and Olympic Committee

The Portuguese coach, who will keep his staff that the team would not go to Turkey in August 2010 for the visit, but to play and shows the evolution of Jordan's basketball and compete strongly, indicating that the primary objective is seeking to reach the sixteen round in the tournament, which witnessed the participation of 24 teams from the World

He stressed that the door will be open to accession by any player to prove his worth, and will not be a representation of the national team limited to certain names, likely to be initially called 16 or 18 players, including thirteen who were present in the Asian Championship in China

Palma, who has the leadership of Angola's to World Cup,presents achievements of the national team over the past three years, most notably the bronze Asia 2009 and qualify for the World Cup and sit on the throne of Arab basketball in 2007 and winning the Stankovic Cup 2008 and the title of William Jones Cup for two consecutive years and win the title Cup of King Abdullah II International in 2007 and finished second in the Arab Championship 2007 and the West Asia 2008

The real end of the Asia Champions

And Palma, who has a track record of training includes seventy win titles, that team during this period jumped 29 places from No. 68 to 39 in the category of the International Federation, and they are candidate to progress more in the next category, indicating that the team played through the past three years over 157 games official and friendly games and won 121 at a rate of 77 percent, which is a non-normal proportion

And he reviewed the team process and details on participating in the Asian Championships which concluded in the Chinese city of Tianjin last week which resulted in an unprecedented achievement for the Jordanian basketball, considering that the game against Iran has been the real end of the tournament

Achievement of a collective effort

He said that the credit for the historic achievement was due primarily to the players who have made a lot of effort and contribution and sacrifices and kept away from their families for long periods, he said, adding that I am proud I took the training of these heroes, and I expect that they get from the next federation all the attention and care

Palma noted the role of the former federation, which provided all requirements and facilities and the requirements and prerequisite for success, and he cannot forget the extraordinary effort exerted by Tarek Al Zoubi

He stressed the importance of the role of the Olympic Committee which was keen to support the team, and taking care and attention of them and followed the team and provided reasons for its success, especially during the last month through its participation in the William Jones Cup and Asian Cup.

Palma praised the efforts of the technical staff and administrative and medical, who works with him, as he commended the Union efforts and sporting director at Al Hussein Youth and media

In response to a question about his future with the club Zain, he said, "I am a professional coach, and related to my business with Zain or not will be in coordination and consultation with the Union

In response to another question about his position if the next union wants him to continue, Palma repeated:”I am a professional coach, and there is a formal contract extends until August 2010, in the case of a desire to terminate the contract I'm going to pay a full year salary

ينكب المدير الفني للمنتخب الوطني لكرة السلة البرتغالي ماريو بالما على وضع تفاصيل خطة اعداد المنتخب لنهائيات كأس العالم التي تنظمها تركيا العام القادم، أثناء اجتماعات عمل مكثفة يعقدها في لشبونه مع مساعده ماريو جوميش خلال اجازة يمضيها في بلاده بدءا من الأسبوع الجاري

وكشف بالما خلال مؤتمر صحفي عقده في مقر اتحاد كرة السلة بحضور مدير الاتحاد تيسير سعادة ومدير النشااطات الرياضية في مدينة الحسين للشباب رضوان العبادي الملامح الأولية لخطة التحضير للمشاركة الأردنية الأولى في كأس العالم. وتشتمل الخطة المقرر المباشرة في تطبيقها مطلع تشرين أول القادم على معسكر تدريبي في أوروبا يتضمن مباريات تجريبية قوية، اضافة الى مشاركات خارجية على صعيد المنتخب وفريق زين الذي يضم تسعة من نجوم المنتخب

الدوري بمشاركة محترفين اثنين

وقال أنه سينصح باقامة الدوري بمشاركة محترفين اثنين، مشددا على عدم امكانية تحضير المنتخب وتطويره دون تعاون ودعم الأندية، مشيرا الى أنه سيعرض التفاصيل والكلف المالية على الاتحاد الذي سيتولى المسؤولية وعلى اللجنة الأولمبية

وأكد المدرب البرتغالي العجوز الذي سيحتفظ بطاقمه أن المنتخب لن يذهب الى تركيا في آب 2010 من أجل الزيارة بل ليلعب ويظهر تطور كرة السلة الأردنية وينافس بقوة، مبينا أن الهدف الأولي يتمثل في السعي لبلوغ دور الستة عشر في البطولة التي تشهد مشاركة 24 من نخبة المنتخبات العالمية

وشدد على أن الباب سيكون مفتوحا أمام انضمام أي لاعب يثبت جدارته، ولن يكون تمثيل المنتخب الوطني حكرا على أسماء معينة، مرجحا أن يتم في البداية استدعاء 16 أو 18 لاعبا من بينهم الثلاثة عشر الذين كانوا موجودين في بطولة آسيا بالصين

وعرض بالما الذي سبق له قيادة منتخب أنجولا لكأس العالم الانجازات التي حققها المنتخب الوطني على مدار السنوات الثلاث الماضية وأبرزها برونزية آسيا 2009 والتأهل لكأس العالم والتربع على عرش كرة السلة العربية عام 2007 والفوز بكاس ستانكوفيتش 2008 وحراز لقب بطولة كأس وليم جونز عامين متتاليين والفوز بلقب بطولة كأس الملك عبدالله الثاني الدولية عام 2007 والحصول على المركز الثاني في الدورة العربية 2007 وبطولة غرب آسيا 2008

النهائي الحقيقي لبطولة آسيا

وبين بالما الذي يمتلك سجلا تدريبيا حافلا يتضمن الفوز بسبعين لقبا، أن المنتخب قفز خلال هذه المدة 29 مركزا من المرتبة 68 الى 39 في التصنيف الصادر عن الاتحاد الدولي، وهو مرشح للتقدم أكثر في التصنيف القادم، مبينا أن المنتخب خاض خلال الأعوام الثلاثة 157 مباراة رسمية وودية فاز في 121 منها بمعدل 77 بالمئة وهي نسبة غير عادية

واستعرض مسيرة المنتخب والتفاصيل المتعلقة بالمشاركة في بطولة آسيا التي اختتمت في مدينة تيان جين الصينية الأسبوع الماضي والتي أسفرت عن انجاز غير مسبوق لكرة السلة الأردنية، معتبرا أن مباراة المنتخب وايران كانت النهائي الحقيقي للبطولة

الانجاز بجهد جماعي

وقال أن الفضل في الانجاز التاريخي يعود في المقام الأول للاعبين الذين قدموا الكثير من الجهد والعطاء والتضحيات وابتعدوا عن عائلاتهم لفترات طويلة، مضيفا أفخر بانني توليت تدريب هؤلاء الأبطال، وأتوقع أن ينالوا من الاتحاد القادم كل الاهتمام والرعاية

ونوه بالما بدور الاتحاد السابق الذي وفر كل الاحتياجات والتسهيلات ومتطلبات ومستلزمات النجاح، وتابع لا يمكن أن ننسى الجهد الاستثنائي الذي بذله طارق الزعبي

وأكد على أهمية دور اللجنة الأولمبية التي حرصت على دعم المنتخب ورعايته والاهتمام به وتابعت الفريق ووفرت أسباب النجاح له وخصوصا خلال الشهر الأخير خلال مشاركته في كأس وليم جونز وبطولة آسيا

واثنى بالما على جهود الكادر الفني والاداري والطبي الذي يعمل معه، مثلما أشاد بجهود كادر اتحاد اللعبة ومدير النشاط الرياضي في مدينة الحسين للشباب ووسائل الاعلام

وردا على سؤال حول وضعه المستقبلي مع نادي زين، قال أنا مدرب محترف، وما يتعلق بعملي مع زين من عدمه سيكون بالتنسيق والتشاور مع الاتحاد

وردا على سؤال آخر حول موقفه اذا رغب الاتحاد القادم بعدم استمراره كرر بالما انني مدرب محترف، وهناك عقد رسمي يمتد حتى أب 2010 ، وفي حالة الرغبة في انهاء العقد سأحصل على رواتب عام كامل