Saturday June 1, 2013
Kabul (BNA): basketball national team to participate in south Asia competitions went to India today.
India hosts basketball competitions to path the way for the winners to participate in Philippine competition participation of eight teams from South Asian countries, which will be held within two months.
Sami Darayi head of Olympic Committee publication department told BNA, in India competitions 16 athletes, three coaches and a delegation from Afghanistan are participating of which 9 athletes and a coach have been chosen from Afghan athletes living in America and three athletes and two coaches from inside the country are participating in the matches.
These competitions with participation of South Asian countries in are conducting in India.
And tomorrow Afghan athletes will contest with Nepalese team.
The competitions are holding every year in one of the South Asian countries.
We are proud of that the Afghan national basketball team was the champion of the last competitions.
