Syria national basketball team continues its external camp for the last window of the Asian qualifiers

Moscow-Sana

The Syrian national basketball team continues its training at its external training camp in Kazan, Russia, in preparation for the third and final window of the qualifiers for the Asian finals to be held in Jordan on the twelfth of next month.

Our team will complete its training camp and the third window with the Russian coach Mikhail Terekhov, after the American coach Joseph Salerno apologized for circumstances related to his inability to leave Canada.

And the coach Terekhov, born in 1987, began training in 2015 with the fourth-class T Basketball Barnaul team in Russia and moved after him to another club in the third division in Russia, with whom he went up to the first division, which is the second highest degree in Russia, and reached with him to third place in the league season 2019-2020 and left From the playoff quarter-finals, and in the 2020-2021 season, he qualified with his club to the playoff and also exited the quarter-finals.

And our team had its first training session last Monday evening under the supervision of the national coach Azzam Al-Hussein in two training sessions, one focused on raising the physical condition and the second on some tactical sentences, with a series of friction matches to raise technical readiness before entering the last window competitions during which he would meet with the Saudi national team on the second day The tenth of next month, while he will meet his Qatari counterpart on the fourteenth of the same month.

Our team includes the players Anas Shaaban - Sharif Al-Ash - Tariq Al-Jabi - Zakaria Al-Hussein - Omar Idlibi - Elias Azarieh - Anthony Bakr - Wael Jalilati - Joseph Youssef - Amer Al-Satti - Jamil Sadir - Omar Sheikh Ali - Abdel Wahab Hamwi - Hani Deribi - Tawfiq Al-Saleh.

Before competing in this window, our team had beaten Iran with a score of 77-70 points within the second window, despite its loss to Qatar in the same window, and it also beat its Saudi counterpart with a score of 75-70 points within the first window in which it opened its career by losing to Iran with a score of 48. -94 points, within the fifth group.

The qualifiers include six groups in which four teams are competing in each of them. The first and second of each group qualify directly at the end of the Asian qualifiers to the Asian Championship, so that the total of the qualifiers is twelve teams, while the third-place teams in the six groups play a league from one stage of which four teams qualify. To the Asian Cup, to be the total of sixteen teams.

Muhammad Al-Khater