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Basketball: President Touré returns, the ABC thinks big

The Abidjan basketball club (Abc) is not jaded after all its titles. The look that the club presented on Friday night when it returned to sport at the village hall of the Treichville state pool is rather shining. The ABC, multiple champion of Côte d’Ivoire, has decided to take another step. Become a stronger Abidjan club in the soul of a warrior.

Indeed, the team was given a nickname added to its name: Abidjan basketball club Fighters or, if you will, Abidjan Fitghters (the fighters of Abidjan). A new start with the return to business of President Boubakari Touré and a general manager, Musa Adamu.

Patron of the club between 1999 and 2011, President Touré handed over to Fétigué Ouattara, to go as a firefighter at the bedside of the Ivorian Basketball Federation (2011-2016), at the request of basketball players.

It was after this parenthesis during which he helped save the ball in the basket of waters, after the serious post-election crisis that the country has known, that he agreed to return to the head of the Abc, after a general assembly of the club.

An Abidjan basketball club that he saw born in 1988, with his friends, in particular the one affectionately called “the owner”, Lambert Feh-Kessé, without forgetting Magne Pierre, Bernard N’Doumi, colonel Fally Tia, Ms. N’Dri Geneviève, Pacôme Mondon, Koné Tiémoko and others.

Touré Boubakari, who returns to the post of president after an absence of ten years, sees bigger for the club which he had already managed to hoist at the top of Africa in 2005. It was at the end of the championship of Africa of men’s champion clubs, at the Treichville Sports Center. This time, Touré and his staff want to be much more professional in their organization.

Modern and transparent management with very distinct structures that respond to the new vision that Fiba Africa, through the new formula of its queen event, wants to instill in African clubs. Indeed, the Basketball Africa League (Bal), a competition created and co-organized by the prestigious North American league (Nba), requires a minimum of seriousness.

The regular season announced with 30 matches could not be completed, because of the coronavirus pandemic, in 2020. To avoid long distances, the 12 teams had to be grouped into two conferences of six clubs.

Six cities had been targeted to host matches: Cairo (Egypt), Dakar (Senegal), Lagos (Nigeria), Luanda (Angola), Rabat (Morocco), and Monastir (Tunisia). Kigali, the Rwandan capital, had been chosen for the Final Four with the final of this first Basketball Africa League no later than the end of June 2020.

Each team is made up of 16 players. Of the 16 players, at most two can come from a continent other than Africa. At least eight basketball players from a team must come from the club’s country and a maximum of four from another African country. The matches will be played according to Fiba international rules and not Nba. The 3-point line will remain at 6m75 and not at 7m23, as in the United States for example.

A new turn in African basketball that the biggest Ivorian club does not want to miss.

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