The national team’s playmaker, De Marco Dixon, confirmed his intention to continue giving and brilliance with the “White” shirt in his current participation in the Dubai International Championship held at the Al -Nasr Club Hall until the second of next February, with the ambition of the team reaching the required readiness before the most important and fateful entitlement next month in the window The third and closing of the qualifiers for the 2025 Asian Cup.
The current participation of the national team in the “Dubai Basket” is a preparation station before the third window of the final stage of the Asian qualifiers for the Asian Cup, which will bring it together on February 22 and 25 with the Syrian and Lebanon teams, and the team is looking to reserve its seat between the teams qualified for the Asian Cup.
De Marco pointed out that the brilliance with the team opened, at the beginning of the current season, signing a contract with the Sharjah Club for two seasons, which encouraged him, along with the many factors he touched, to make the decision to seek stability and his family in the Emirates.
De Marco told «Emirates Today»: “The hospitality that I found since I joined the team’s list, then signing to play with Sharjah Club, and the great reputation that the UAE has in terms of decent life and safety, all of which motivate me to make a lot of effort to serve the Emirati basket.” .
He explained: «My presence previously was limited to participating with the national team in its matches during the Asian qualifiers, starting from the first window of the final stage, but my success in continuing giving with (Al -Abyad) allowed me to obtain a contract with the Sharjah Club, which I seek to help him in competing for titles Local and external. ”
He added: “My ambitions are great to contribute to the team’s achievement of its goals, and the presence between the senior Asia, in addition to my ambitions with my current team, which I have touched since I joined the stability factors that encourage me to bring my family to live and stay in the Emirates.”
De Marco touched on the strong levels that the Dubai Championship is usually witnessed by the mass attendance, and said: “We presented two strong and exciting games against both Strong Group and the Oman Union and the level The big continent clubs to win their title. ”
He continued: «Our last match against the Amman Federation scored an escalation in the pace of the team in general, and my joy was great in my registration for a successful trio in the last seconds that was enough to win.
On the level of the Emirati basket and the league in general, De Marco said: “Despite the lack of clubs participating in the league championship at the men’s stage, the level of competition is high in light of the presence of a group of high -level foreign professionals, along with the efforts he touched to develop the game and build rules of generations Emerging. ”
He concluded: «The current season showed a great club in the competition, whether at the level of Al -Ahly, Al -Nasr, Sharjah or Al -Battah, and I expect the high level of competition in the upcoming roles.
A difficult task for representatives of the Emirati basket
The representatives of the Emirati basket are playing the Sharjah, Al -Nasr teams and the national team, today, fateful confrontations, as the “King” begins at three noon the first round matches to meet the Tunisian national team, and the “dean” meets with the Jordanian Union of Amman at five in the evening, and the national team will play at seven in the evening a test Difficult for the Lebanese Beirut team, the leader of the first group teams, while the round is curtains on the ninth of the Lebanese wisdom and the Filipino.
Sharjah and the Tunisian national team and the two group and the second group (three points each) seek to score their second victory, which guarantees its owner a temporary top of the group teams with five points, one point behind the current leaders of Tripoli with four points, which is subject to this round to the compulsory rest.
In turn, Al-Nasr and the Jordanian Oman Union are looking for their first victory in the first group, especially after they were defeated in the past two rounds, as the “dean” lost to both Lebanese Beirut (81-99) and “Strong Group” Filipino (87-99), While the Omani Federation died its losses against Beirut (80-87), and in front of the national team by (96-97).
The national team (three points) collides with victory and defeat, against the leaders of the first group, Beirut, with the Lebanese, with four points, and relies “Al-Abyad” on the high rates of harmony between its players, which led him, despite the loss in its first match against the Philippine “Strong Group” (91-99 ), To compensation in front of the Amman Federation, and the team’s task appears difficult in light of the strength of the names included in the Lebanese team, especially at the level of foreign professionals.
The Lebanese wisdom is asking for the Philippine Zambanga in the meeting of the second group, to restore confidence, after a good start for the Lebanese to beat Sharjah (86-76), before the stumbling of yesterday, against Tunisia (76-87), while the new expatriate Zambanga is looking for his first victory After stumbling in the past two rounds, by losing to Sharjah (82-97), and in front of Al-Ahly Tripoli, with a heavy result (84-107).
De Marco:
• My great joy in the triple roll and the leadership of Al -Abyad to win in the last seconds.
• Despite the lack of clubs participating in the league, the level of competition is high.
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