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President of Al-Thawra Club: Our team excelled in the Arab Women's Basketball Championship

2021-09-15T11:47:49.274Z


Damascus, SANA- Al-Thawra team won the second place and the silver in the Arab Clubs Basketball Championship for women, which ended in


Damascus-SANA

Al-Thawra team achieved second place and silver in the Arab Clubs Basketball Championship for women, which was recently concluded in the Jordanian capital, Amman, after a sophisticated skillful performance by its players, who starred from the beginning of the tournament to its end.

The championship gold was not far from Al-Thawra Club, but it was around the corner or closer to it, after it lost the final with Beirut, Lebanon, with a score of 67-71 points.

President of Al-Thawra Club, Salam Allawi, said in a statement to SANA’s sports representative: “Our players set their sights on competing vigorously in the tournament and performing well since the beginning of the preparations. The tournament with Shabab Fuheis preceded a good opportunity to prepare properly.”

Allawi added: Our players excelled in the tournament after they presented a distinguished performance described as Olympic performance. Each player has characteristics that distinguish her in the hall, whether by entering quickly, by strength of the body, or by shooting, so that the board is integrated with the presence of the two foreign players who presented in addition to the team.

The club president indicated that the level of the team has been good since the beginning of the tournament and witnessed a remarkable rise with its progress in the following roles, reaching the final, which our players would have settled had it not been for the great pressure in the matches by playing with the same strong teams, indicating that Elisa Makarian being the top scorer in the tournament is an achievement. Added to the championship silver after her brilliance and contribution to the arrival of her team to the second place.

Allawi expressed her confidence in the players of her team, considering the silver of the championship a start towards future medals, especially that the team has been diligent for several years at the local level, and the evidence is that it won the league and cup championships more than once, noting the great efforts made by the technical and administrative staff of the team to develop the level of the players and maintain the strength of the team.

It is noteworthy that the Al-Thawra team qualified for the final match by defeating the Jordanian Orthodox team with a score of 97-74 points in the semi-finals, knowing that it finished the preliminary round of the tournament at the top, where it opened its participation in this role by defeating the Jordanian Orthodox team with a score of 71-68 points and its second victory over Beirut Club The Lebanese team scored 72-69 points, and the third victory came at the expense of the Qatari women's team, with a score of 88-58 points, while its only loss in this round was against the Jordanian Fuheis.

 Hana Sokoor

Source: sena

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