During an interview with the APS, the president of the “Basketball Africa League” drew a mid-term review for this third edition of the BAL. A report that he considers very “encouraging”. He thus declined the chances of the various teams, especially those of AS Douanes.
Since the establishment of the BAL and with this new format (Nil and Sahara conferences), for the first time a Senegalese team, AS Douanes, will play the “final 8”. The club are not going to pass up this opportunity to win the trophy in Kigali, Rwanda. This is why he has strengthened himself to have solid arguments. According to the president of the BAL, the tax collectors have a real chance to make a strong impression.
« In Kigali, we will have the top eight (8) teams in the competition. I am convinced that they will all come with ambitions. They all want to win the trophy. I think AS Douanes will have a chance like all the other teams. If we see what happened in Dakar, US Monastir which is the defending champion was eliminated. This is to say that all teams are equal. »
The BAL wants to give a chance to young Africans to allow them to live their dream in basketball. This is what the boss of the BAL seems to be saying, returning to the logic that the BAL has signed up for.
« The BAL is a continuation of all the work that has been done over several decades. It’s grassroots work that consisted in giving the opportunity to young people who want to play basketball, to allow them to have access to this sport. We spent a lot of time building infrastructure, training coaches so that they could guide these young people. The work at the base continues despite the fact that we are a professional league which is today at the top of the development pyramid that we started several decades ago. ” did he declare.
For this 3rd edition of the BAL, only the Sahara conference has already been played. There remains the Nile conference scheduled in Cairo from April 26 to May 6 and the “final 8” scheduled from May 21 to 27 in Kigali. Thus, it is too early for Amadou Gallo Fall to take stock of the organization.
« We have big ambitions for this league. I think it’s too early to say that we are satisfied with the organization for this edition but I can say that for this 2nd edition with the Sahara conference here in Dakar, we are satisfied with the progress of the competitions first on the field but also in the stands. We had a very competitive tournament with on arrival, 5 of the 6 teams with the same number of points. We used the “goal difference” to separate them he said.
With the many problems plaguing basketball at the local level, Amadou Gallo Fall wants solutions to be found for the happiness of all players.
« I see that the problems do not date from today. I think it is high time to find a solution and the solution is the men and women who wrote the history of Senegalese basketball. There is work to be done to have leadership that impacts because that is what is important. We often focus on the national team but I think that the work must start at the beginning, at the base and we will have a summit that will represent all the love, the passion that Senegalese have for basketball. But, this passion requires this contradiction that we are currently experiencing he said.
wiwsport.com with APS
2023-04-20 11:09:14
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