AMMAN — The International Basketball Federation’s (FIBA) Regional Office
Asia has confirmed that Jordan will host part of the FIBA Asia Cup qualifiers
in June.
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Jordan will be the venue for the
games of Group E and F, to take place in Amman from June 12–14, while the games
of Group A, B, and C will take place in Clark City, Philippines from June
16–20, according to a FIBA Asia statement.
The matches were postponed in
February due to restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Organized in
“protected environment tournaments in order to ensure the health and safety of
all participants, these games will determine the 10 teams that will join
Bahrain and Lebanon, already qualified for the event,” the federation said.
The 16 teams list of FIBA Asia Cup 2021 will be completed with four additional
teams through the Qualifying Tournament for third-ranked teams of the six groups
that will take place between 12–14 August 2021, in Jakarta, according to the
statement.
Group E includes the national
teams of Syria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Iran. Jordan falls in Group F,
competing with Kazakhstan, Palestine and Sri Lanka. Four matches are left for
the national team, AKA the Nashama Hawks, after a recent tournament in Bahrain
was put off due to the pandemic.
Jordan, which is temporarily in
the tail of the list, is to play Palestine twice and each of the two other
teams once.
The Jordan Basketball Federation
has announced on its Facebook page that it would apply “very strict
precautionary measures to minimize the movement of participating teams to be
limited to the airport to the isolation hotel and Prince Hamzah Hall,” where
the games will take place, in addition to frequent PCRs to prevent any possible
spread of COVID-19 among the participating delegations.
For his part, Secretary of the
Jordan Basketball Federation Nabil Abu Ata stressed in remarks to
Jordan
News that Jordan is well prepared for the event. “We will be a five-star
host, reflecting Jordan’s image as a historically good organizer and a rational
host in managing crises.”
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