Head of the national basketball team: Japan will face Iran with a full lineup
In an interview with IRNA reporter on Saturday, Hamidreza Klasangiani said: The meeting between the national basketball teams of Iran and Japan is already in the planning of the federation and according to the previous talks, this team is going to play against Iran with a full lineup.
He continued: The presence of the Iranian national team in Japan was based on the invitation of the basketball officials of this country, and considering that we have the windows of the World Cup ahead of us, it was decided that the team would be sent with a combination of players from the Iranian national team and the Irannovin team, which happened and The dispatchers are specific.
Pointing out that Iran’s national basketball team does not have an injured player in the current situation, he said: “Our only injured player was Behnam Laghari, who fortunately is in a good condition and the other players are also in a good condition.” After Tasua and Hosseini Ashura holidays, we will start our training in Tehran to be ready to go to this country.
In response to the question of how he evaluates the difficult path of Iran’s promotion to the World Cup, the head of our country’s national basketball team said: “It is a fact that we are on a difficult path, but we must pass this path safely. We are with the basketball teams of Japan and China.” and Australia are in the same group, and according to the points we have to get, we need to excel and win points in all the home matches, and we have to go to the field with strength in the away games as well. On the other hand, Kazakhstan is also in this group and we have to win 2 more games than them to qualify for the World Cup.
Klasangiani emphasized: Fortunately, Kazakhstan should also play with these teams, although we have a difficult task, but our goal is to participate in the World Cup, and to achieve this goal, we will face our rivals with all our efforts.
Our country’s national basketball team will travel to Japan on August 19.