Today, the Saudi Arabian national basketball team will face their Indian counterpart at the King Abdullah Sports City stadium in Jeddah in the third match of the second stage of the World Cup qualifiers.
With this meeting, Al-Akhdar hope to take their first win in the second round of qualifying and maintain their chances of qualifying for the World Cup after losing the first meeting with New Zealand and the second meeting with the Philippines.
The national team has completed their preparations for qualification by camping in Jeddah during which they played two friendly matches against Bahrain and the UAE under new Dutch coach Johan Goyakers, who is aiming for his first win in his first qualifier against Al Akhdar. and has the elements to keep Al Akhdar’s chances of qualifying and achieving a historic achievement in basketball.
The Goyakers coach confirmed that the Saudi Arabian team has a chance of reaching the World Cup final, although it is not great: “We will hold on to this opportunity to qualify and it is important to win matches. , regardless of qualification or not, as well as to know well the capabilities and levels of the players, as well as their needs in developing their technical and physical abilities.