The coach of the Egyptian basketball team, the Egyptian Imam Mahmoud «Misho, revealed that 17 months of hard work - since the team’s establishment, during which the technical and administrative apparatus, with the support of the club’s administration, focused primarily on the psychological side - were capable of returning players who were forgotten In their clubs, they have always been classified from the third grade category, to impose their respect in less than two seasons on joining the slaughterhouses, which put the team among the top four in local basketball competitions, even though the team’s budget ranged monthly between 150 and 200 thousand dirhams.

"Misho" told "Emirates Today" that "the first credit for what the basketball team has reached now is due to the high decision-maker, who allowed, in 2018, to expand the base of team games for the club, to include team games, including the basket."

He explained: «The great support from the club’s management, and the confidence that the administration put in the administrative and technical bodies of basketball contributed to the ability to provide factors of success, most notably work on the psychological side of the players, that an opportunity is available to them to show the talents they possess in the game, what their family Since their first season to finish fifth in the league, along with reaching the President’s Cup semi-finals, before the same group, consisting of 14 players, continued to shine in its second season (2019-2020), and lead the team to enter the list of the Big Four ».

He added: "The remarkable development of the team in its second season, led it to occupy the fourth position in the preliminary league championship, before the Al-Bataeh confirms its right to this position again, and the superiority over Al-Wasl in the first leg of the quarter-finals, which was held mid-month, and put a foot in the golden box, Were it not for the tournament to stop before the return match, in light of the precautionary measures currently imposed in the country ».

He went on to say: «The basket of Al-Bataeh proved worthy of the title of« Black Horse », as the team was in the preliminary league this season, just around the corner from the end of this role in Al-Wasafa, had it not been for the difficulty with a difference of two points in front of Al-Ahly youth.

Millions don't make the difference

The coach of the basket of baskets assured that the basketball team’s budget, which ranged monthly between 150 and 200 thousand dirhams, is relatively weak, compared to what the other club’s departments allocate from huge budgets, which contributed to the club’s success, especially in the strategy of contracting with a foreign professional, what happens the required balance between it And among the citizen player, which was confirmed by the results this season.

He explained: «Finding a balance in scoring and scoring rates between foreigners and citizens is one of the most important factors that contributed to the team’s successes, as our strategies are based on contracts, and despite its difficulty in finding a foreign professional with a monthly salary of between 5000 and 6000 dollars, to complement the team, and that the team is not built He has to play in the style of his game, as is the case with most clubs, to confirm the correctness of this strategy, in light of the success of the basic elements of our citizen players obtaining scores ranging between 12 and 15 points per game.

This season put forward the semi-finals of the General League.