Vice President of the Nigeria Basketball Federation, Babatunde Ogunade, says the upcoming FIBA Girls’s Basketball World Cup Qualifying Match 2026 in France will present an necessary alternative to evaluate gamers and strengthen the nationwide workforce forward of the primary competitors.
Nigeria’s girls’s nationwide workforce, Nigeria girls’s nationwide basketball workforce, already secured their spot on the subsequent World Cup after profitable the FIBA Girls’s Afrobasket, however Ogunade believes the qualifiers will nonetheless serve an important position within the workforce’s preparation.
“The qualifiers will give us alternative to evaluate the gamers and strengthen the workforce forward of the primary event,” Ogunade mentioned.
In response to him, preparations are already underway with the nationwide workforce camp opened to accommodate each established gamers and new prospects.
“Camp has been opened to present alternatives to each native and overseas-based gamers to be a part of the workforce,” he defined.
Ogunade revealed that the teaching crew intends to combine new abilities whereas sustaining the core of skilled gamers who’ve contributed to the workforce’s success lately.
“The concept is to assemble the absolute best workforce that may signify Nigeria strongly,” he added.
Nigeria has persistently been one of many dominant forces in African girls’s basketball, and Ogunade believes the workforce has the potential to enhance on its earlier achievements on the worldwide stage.
“Our goal is to transcend what we achieved earlier than,” he said.
D’Tigress reached the quarterfinals of the FIBA Girls’s Basketball World Cup 2018 in Spain, a historic efficiency that continues to be the most effective outings by an African workforce on the competitors.
Ogunade expressed confidence that with correct preparation and a balanced squad, Nigeria can ship an excellent stronger efficiency within the subsequent version.
“We consider the workforce can go additional and obtain one thing particular,” he concluded.
