BASKETBALL – THE all-Bahraini Seef 3x3 basketball team are scheduled to depart for Belgrade, Serbia today for an overseas training camp in preparation for their historic debut later this month in the Fiba 3x3 World Tour.
The quartet of Sayed Mohammed Hameed, Sadeq Shukrallah, Hassan Fahad, and Nasser Al Mosawi are scheduled to make their maiden foray into street basketball’s premier international series in the Orleans Challenger in France on Friday and Saturday next week. The competition is a qualifier for the Shenzhen Masters in China, scheduled for October 4 and 5. A Challenger event is a premium tournament on the Fiba 3x3 World Tour that is one of two kinds of qualifiers for top-tier Masters competitions.
Seef will be at their Belgrade camp until Thursday, after which they travel to the north-central French city of Orleans. Their delegation heading to Europe includes Serbian coach Bogdan Dragovic and Bahraini tactician Murtadha Mohammed
Prior to leaving for Serbia, Seef team were visited by Bahrain Basketball Association (BBA) president Alaa Mudara during a training session at the BBA Arena in Umm Al Hassam.
There will be two Bahraini teams in Orleans as Seef will be joined by Riffa – the kingdom’s seasoned Fiba 3x3 World Tour representatives who are predominantly made up of Belgian talents along with Bahraini star Mohammed Kowayed.
They are to be part of a 16-team field, with the other squads being Ub from Serbia, Vienna from Austria, Carolina from Puerto Rico, Hangzhou from China, Marijampole Mantinga from Lithuania, Podebrady from the Czech Republic, Bucharest from Romania, Zurich Gutzwiller from Switzerland, Milan from Italy, Tbilisi from Georgia, and the French quartet of Toulouse, Bordeaux, Ermont Senef and Elancourt. Following their foray in Orleans, Seef are then scheduled to compete in their first-ever Masters event in Hong Kong on July 19 and 20.
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