BASKETBALL – Bahrain head coach Georgios Vovoras visited senior men’s basketball national team star Muzamil Ameer in the US, where he is currently a student-athlete at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, Louisiana.
Vovoras was accompanied by national team assistant coach Ahmed Aziz.
Their visit was part of their follow-up on Ameer’s technical and physical development.
It underlines the Bahrain Basketball Association’s keenness to follow up on the kingdom’s top players overseas and to closely monitor their levels, which supports their development and enhances the national team’s readiness for upcoming events, especially given their massive potential to be amongst the future pillars of Bahraini basketball.
Ameer competes with Nicholls who are in division one of men’s basketball in the 2025-26 season’s Southland Conference in the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA).
Ameer is already one of the top talents on the kingdom’s senior men’s squad.
The six-foot, six-inch 24-year-old helped spearhead Bahrain to their first-ever title in the Gulf Basketball Association (GBA) Championship for National Teams in 2024.
He also made regional basketball history in 2023, becoming the first Gulf national to play in ‘March Madness’ – the NCAA’s annual division one men’s basketball tournament.
Earlier, in 2021, Ameer became the kingdom’s first-ever student-athlete to play in the NCAA’s top men’s basketball division.
Prior to meeting with Ameer, Vovoras and Aziz also paid visits to young Bahraini stars Somto Patrick Onoduenyi, who is enrolled at Modesto Christian School in Modesto, California; and Hassan Oshobuge Abdulqader, who is studying at Bella Vista College Prep in Phoenix, Arizona.
Fifteen-year-old Onoduenyi and 16-year-old Abdulqader are two of the kingdom’s highly touted youngsters who helped propel Bahrain’s youth national team to a number of prestigious gold medals last year.
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