Excluding 3 players from the Syrian national basketball team
The Syrian "Sham FM" radio website revealed that three players have been excluded from the list of the current internal camp of the Syrian basketball team, which is currently in the capital, Damascus, as part of the plan to prepare the "Nusour Qassioun" basket, to participate in the third window of the Asian qualifiers during the period of 18 And until February 21.
The report, "Sham FM", said: "At the end of the first week of the internal camp, the technical staff of the Syrian national team conducted a reduction in the list of players, excluding Ammar Al-Ghumayyan, Muhammad Arbasha and Nadim Issa."
He added: "The technical staff of the Syrian national team, led by the American coach Joseph Salerno, was established at the start of the second phase of the camp, on a list of 16 players, namely Zakaria Al-Hussein, Jamil Sadir, Omar Sheikh Ali, Anas Shaaban, Hani Adribi, Tariq Al-Jabi and Abdel-Wahab. Al-Hamwi, Sharif Al-Ash, Anthony Bakr, Tawfiq Al-Saleh, Wael Jalilati, Georgy Nazarian, Joseph Youssef, Elias Azaria, Omar Idlibi, and Mahmoud Tarab. "
The report confirmed the continued absence of "Al-Jaish" club player and national playmaker Ramy Morgana from the training camp, as a result of injury, in addition to the absence of the American, George Keel, who is naturalized in the national team.
The Syrian team will compete in the Asian qualifiers, in the fifth group, which includes next to it all the national teams of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Iran, provided that the Syrian team will meet in the third window each of the teams of Saudi Arabia and Qatar, and the "Qasiyoun Eagles" need the basket for a single victory to extract the qualification card for the 2021 Asian Cup. Which will be hosted by Indonesia next August, especially since the Syrians' victory last December over Iran "77-70" at the end of the second window, was behind hopes of qualifying, entering into a partnership with the Saudi national team at the level of second place for the group with six points each, a point difference The one for Iran, the group's leaders.
Follow our latest local and sports news, and the latest political and economic developments via Google news