Basketball national team: Arab teams are rude, but we want to win
According to IRNA, سل Arsalan Kazemi stated after the victory against Bahrain in the first qualifying window of the 2023 World Cup: “We must get the points we need in the first stage to go to the next round safely.” That is why we need superiority in the upcoming matches, and it does not matter which team we are going to play with. Of course, the Arab teams perform their own way on the field and they are very rude, but we have no choice but to win and we must win.
He continued: “We were waiting for the American player from Bahrain who did not come; We focused on him how to control him. Undoubtedly, in the return match, Bahrain will play against us with all its might and will try to use all its resources, and this will make it difficult for us.
Regarding his performance in the game against Bahrain, the Iranian national basketball team player said: “It doesn’t really matter what the statistics say, it’s not important, but it is important that we win.” I like to have the best performance but I do not involve myself in statistics. What matters is the success of the team, and we are now a family that goes to the ground to succeed.
Iran’s national basketball team defeated Bahrain 82-66 in a home match in the first qualifying round of the 2023 World Cup and started its work with a victory. Our national basketball team on the way to the 2023 World Cup and in the first selection window must hold its return match against Bahrain on December 29 in Manama. In the next step, the Iranian national basketball team will host Kazakhstan on Tuesday, March 26, and on the eighth of this month, they will host Syria in the Azadi Basketball Hall.
Mustafa Hashemi’s students will face Kazakhstan and Syria away on July 10th and 13th, respectively. At the end of the first round of the 2023 World Cup qualifiers, which include the first, second and third windows, the top three teams in each group will advance to the second round of qualifiers, which includes the fourth to sixth windows.
Accordingly, 12 teams from the Asia-Pacific region will advance to the second qualifying round of the 2023 World Cup.
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