Africa-Press – Angola. Exactly 31 days separate Petro de Luanda, national senior men’s basketball champion, from debuting in the preliminary round of the BAL, whose debut opponent is the Cape Town Tigers of South Africa, the team with which the dispute starts at 17:00 , on 10 April, of the Nile Conference, in Cairo, the capital of Egypt.
In the second round of the competition, which runs from 9 to 19 April, the tricolors test their skills, at 19:30, against Cobra Sport, from South Sudan. In the third, on the 15th, at 17:00, the opponent is Zamalek from Egypt. The following day, for the fourth round, at 19:30, the oil workers under José Neto’s orders will face the Cameroon FAP.
At the end of the preliminary phase of access to the play-offs of the final, on the 18th, the Eixo Viário team plays, at 19:30, with Espoir Fukash from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Zamalek, host of the event, BC Espoir Fukash, Cape Town Tigers, Cobra Sport and FAP, will, like Petro, compete for the first four places, in the all-against-all system in one round, to guarantee one of the eight spots in the final phase. , taking place at the Kigali Pavilion, Rwanda, from the 21st to the 28th of May.
In Dakar, Senegal, the Sahara Conference takes place until the 15th of this month, with the hosts of the Dakar University Club, Association Sportive Salé (Morocco), Ferroviário da Beira (Mozambique), Energy Group (Rwanda), US Monastir (Tunisia) and Seydou Legacy Athlétique Club (Guinea), fighting for one of the four passes.
Yanick and Anderson expected soon
However, to materialize the desideratum of reaching the next stage of the competition, Petro de Luanda hired Yanick Moreira, Angolan pole, 2.11 meters, and Anderson Correia, Cape Verdean winger, 1.95.
Moreira, 30, and Correia, 24, are linked to the tricolor club until the end of the season, with another option. The athletes can arrive at any time in the country, according to a guarantee given, in statements to Jornal de Angola, by the director for basketball, Hermenegildo Mbunga.
Although the National Championship is entering the intermediate stage, José Neto has been working on five-on-five attacks, counter-attacks, man-to-man defense, passes, unmarking, blocking, cutting, launching the line of shots free kicks, two and three points, also dominate the training.
In the final part of the training, the coach, assisted by Aníbal Moreira and Victor de Carvalho, former Angolan internationals, and Diego Falcão, physical trainer coming from Brazil, promotes the routine training game between the team members to observe and correct any defensive flaws and offensive.
The Petro de Luanda squad includes: Childe Dundão and Gerson Domingos (bases), Carlos Morais, Olímpio Cipriano and Gerson “Luneky” Gonçalves (wings), José António, Pedro Bastos and Melvy da Silva (wings), Leonel Paulo (wings), winger), Aboubakar Gakou, Valdelício Joaquim “Vander”, Jone Pedro and Aldemiro João “Vander” (posts).
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