Basket-ball Senegal / female Afrobasket: package risks for the Lionesses, reigning champions

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Holder of the continental trophy and the most successful women’s team on the continent, Senegal prepares the recovery with difficulty with many problems including an estimated zero franc budget at 10 days to the competition.

Expected in Maputo in Mozambique from 20 to 29 September 2013 the female Afrobasket, will not be a cakewalk for the Lionesses of Senegal holding the trophy. As and when the deadlines approach, the difficulties are piling up for the players and the federation. “There are many difficulties that hitherto we have tried to manage. But this is impossible. To win the title and be in the best disposition. To achieve that, we need a budget of 130 million FCFA”says the president of the Senegalese Basketball Federation, Baba Tandian .

According to him “since the beginning of the preparation, it’s the money of the federation and the money the president of the federation that allows the team to keep and pay the group fees”. According to the president Tandian ” 170 million FCFA for basketball in general the budgetary decision made early in the season by the the Senegalese government has not even been enough to address the issues of participation and management of the Lions in Abidjan “ . So today to cope well the Lionesses need 130 million. This amount takes into account the cost of travel, bonuses, accommodation, catering … among others.

And for the president of the Senegalese federation “today only the president of the republic can support these expenses. Without him the Lionesses may be package which is even more serious for all the Senegalese basketball”. Indeed, in case of withdrawal, Senegal pays a fine of 60 million CFA francs but also will see its basketball in general, suspended from the continental as well as international level.

The Lions qualified for the World Cup would be eliminated automatically, all Senegalese selections would be suspended for the next two editions of the male and female Afrobasket. A disaster that haunts Senegalese athletes.


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