13 December 2007
NIGERIA : 22nd Champions Cup for Men: Respite for Potters, leave in batches
Nigeria representative at the final round of the 22nd FIBA Africa Champions Cup for Men, Niger Potters basketball club may have find succour in South Africa Airways as the first batch of ten players' and two officials leave for Huambo enroute Luanda, Angola tonight.
The Minna North Central Nigeria-based team will now join eleven other teams from nine African countries for the continent biggest club championship which dunks-off Thursday in Huambo and Cabinda.
www.fiba-afrique.org reliably gathered that the team is paying more than double what they ought to pay for their flight ticket but are determined to make it to the finals having topped the FIBA Africa Zone-3 qualifiers held in Cotonuo, Republic of Benin last month.
The team has to split into two in order to make it to Angola in good time for the final round as they confront Ferroviario de Beira basketball club of Mozambique in group-B opening game few hours after their arrival Thursday in Huambo.
The ten players and two officials in the first party to Angola includes the head coach, Adamu Kuta and team Doctor, Mohammed Yahaya while the players in the advance team are Abubakar Usman, Abubakar Yusuf, Victor Okoro, Sati Paul, Faruk Oyalade, Chigozie Nwoye, Anthony Edache, Stanley Gumut, Emmanuel Dreams and Abdulazeez Yusuf.
Others left behind are expected to jet out Fridays aboard South Africa Airways to arrive Luanda, Angola by 12.15 hours.
The Minna North Central Nigeria-based team will now join eleven other teams from nine African countries for the continent biggest club championship which dunks-off Thursday in Huambo and Cabinda.
www.fiba-afrique.org reliably gathered that the team is paying more than double what they ought to pay for their flight ticket but are determined to make it to the finals having topped the FIBA Africa Zone-3 qualifiers held in Cotonuo, Republic of Benin last month.
The team has to split into two in order to make it to Angola in good time for the final round as they confront Ferroviario de Beira basketball club of Mozambique in group-B opening game few hours after their arrival Thursday in Huambo.
The ten players and two officials in the first party to Angola includes the head coach, Adamu Kuta and team Doctor, Mohammed Yahaya while the players in the advance team are Abubakar Usman, Abubakar Yusuf, Victor Okoro, Sati Paul, Faruk Oyalade, Chigozie Nwoye, Anthony Edache, Stanley Gumut, Emmanuel Dreams and Abdulazeez Yusuf.
Others left behind are expected to jet out Fridays aboard South Africa Airways to arrive Luanda, Angola by 12.15 hours.
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