Amman-Sana
With great will and high spirits, the Syrian basketball team will meet the Saudi team at one o’clock this afternoon in the Jordanian capital, Amman, within the third and final window of the qualifiers for the 2021 Asian Nations finals, which will be held in Indonesia next August.
Our team had previously defeated the Saudi team in the second round of qualifiers in the first window, with a score of 75-70 points, after resorting to extra time.
This was the first victory for our team in the qualifiers before it achieved its second victory at the expense of Iran in the last round. It occupies the second place in its group with 6 points from two wins and two losses. It is the same as the Saudi team, knowing that the qualifiers system decides any equal points by resorting to direct confrontations and according to these calculations, our team can Qualification is guaranteed on the condition of victory over Saudi Arabia and that Qatar does not win against Iran during their meeting in this window today as well, knowing that Qatar occupies the fourth and last place with five points.
The list of our team, after the players Abdel Wahab Al-Hamwi and Hani Adrebi were infected with the Corona virus, includes Anthony Bakr, Zakaria Al-Hussein, Anas Shaaban, Rami Marjana, Jamil Sadir, Amer Al-Sati, Sharif Al-Ish, Tawfiq Saleh, Tariq Al-Jabi, Camille Jumblatt and Douglas Hering.
Our national team coach, Mikhail Terekhov, expressed his confidence in the team's players' capabilities and ability to win and asked them to maintain their high self-confidence, while players Adreby and El Hamoui called on their colleagues to win, expressing their high confidence in the team's ability to qualify.
Our team had entered a preparatory camp in Russia that lasted about two weeks in preparation for this window and concluded last Tuesday, during which it played five friendly matches, three of them in Kazan with the Volga Academy team, in which our team won two with 111-64 points and 100-83 points and lost one with 97-106 points. As for the remaining two matches, they were in Moscow with the Russian youth team, and our team also won them by the same score, 77-85 points.