Cardiff City cancelled the club’s trip to Tenerife for a mid-season break so the players could mourn striker Emiliano Sala’s death with their families, manager Neil Warnock has said.
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The US senior national women’s team on Friday halted the progression of their Nigerian counterparts, D’Tigress, with a 71-40 stoppage in the quarter-finals of the ongoing 2018 FIBA Women’s World Cup in Tenerife, Spain.
The Nigerian women’s basketball team, D’Tigress, recorded their second-straight win at the ongoing FIBA Women’s World Cup with a hard-fought 75-70 victory over Argentina in Spain on Tuesday.
D’ Tigress stars, Sarah Ogoke, and former team captain, Aisha Mohammed, still smarting from Nigeria’s win over Turkey at the ongoing FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup in Tenerife, Spain, are confident that Nigerians would have more to celebrate.
Elonu told the News Agency of Nigeria that she was confident about the team’s chances in spite of the quality of teams coming for the World Cup.
The 14-man team which arrived in Lagos on Monday from their Atlanta, U.S. base, is currently training ahead of the biggest competition in basketball at the Teslim Balogun Stadium, Suruelere.
According to a statement on the association’s website, the ‘venue pass’, which is the first of three ticket types which can be purchased to take in the action at FIBA’s flagship women’s competition, went out on sale from Tuesday.
The draw held on Tuesday in Tenerife showed that Group A has France, Canada, Greece and Korea, while host Spain will slug it out with Belgium, Puerto Rico and Japan in Group C.