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*** YEMENI MEN BASKETBALL MAIN PAGE ***
 | Yemen U18 finish at 2-2 record | |
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by Eurobasket News - Aug 4, 2008 | |  | Yemen improved to 2-1 record at the U18 WABA Championship. The hosts held off Lebanon 85:82 to climb to 2-1 record in the ladder. Yemen got to a better start of the game and led 23:20 after the starting frame. The hosts put up a brilliant performance in the second frame and stretched the margin to 13 points. Lebanon never recovered and suffered their third loss at the tournament.
Next Yemen took on undefeated Iran and failed to tame the main favorites of the tourney. Iran dominated in the second and third periods and deservedly drove to a 107:81 victory at the end. Iran improved to 4-0 record to win the competition in Yemen. |
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| Yemen edge Jordan at the start of WABA U18 Championship | |
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by Eurobasket News - Jul 31, 2008 | | | Yemen U18 - Jordan U18 95:88
Yemen Junior National Team got the taste of victory at the beginning of the WABA U18 Championship. The hosts of the event held off Jordan 95:88 to gain their first win. Four teams tipped off the competition fighting for three tickets to the FIBA Asia U18 Championship. The continental tourney will be held in Iran at the end of August. Yemen will now face the first round winners Iran next. Jordan will try to bounce back against Lebanon tonight. |
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| Al Tilal tastes the only win | |
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by Eurobasket News - Apr 27, 2008 | | | Al Tilal won the last game of the Group A, but could not advance to the next round. At first in the second game Qatar Club beat Al Tilal Aden 86:75. Trailing 70:45 the team from Yemen could reduce the gap in the end of the game. Qatar Club was paced by Daoud Musa (193-G-82) who nailed 23 points. Jerry Holman (209-F/C-80, agency: Interperformances, college: Minnesota) collected 19 points and 13 rebounds, while Taha Alassari (180-G/F-84, college: Fredonia St.) scored 30 points in defeat.
In the last game of the first round Al Tilal beat An Nasr 98:97. It was a very tough game and the team from UAE controlled the majority of it. An Nasr opened the game with 26:22 and increased to 44:37 at the half. The things remained the same in the end of the third quarter when the board showed 76:67. Al Tilal had outstanding last quarter and grabbed the first win. It was not enough however to advance to the next stage as An Nasr has a better difference between three teams that finished with 1-2 record. Taha Alassari led the winners with 31 points and El Hadji Diake had 26. Trello Galloway (201-G/F-79, college: Georgia St.) top-scored for UAE team with 18 points. Amal McCaskill (211-F/C-73, agency: Huss Sport Agency, college: Marquette) netted 17 and Justin Murray (198-F-81, agency: Tank Sports, college: Washington St.) had 16. |
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| Al Tilal Aden starts with a loss | |
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by Eurobasket News - Apr 24, 2008 | | | In the first game day of 21st Arab Clubs Championship Al Tilal Aden from Yemen lost to Zain from Jordan 48:101. Rasheim Wright (193-G-81, college: District of Col.) led the way with 20 points, 8 rebounds and 8 assists. Zeid Abbas (203-C-83) collected 17 points and 11 rebounds, while Mohammad Bushnaq (200-F-81) scored 15. Taha Alassari (180-G/F-84, college: Fredonia St.) ended up with 17 points and 4 assists in the losing effort. In the opening quarter the guests resisted in the game and trailed 23:14. The second period saw the spurt from the hosts that started to increase their lead. They had 53:24 by the half time and looked very optimistic in the campaign. After three quarters the spectators enjoyed plus 50 for the hosts and in the last quarter the task was to reach 100. Zain managed to do it and won 101: 48. |
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| Yemen basketball: New administration and 2006-2007 year round-up | |
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We have received a communique from Al-Khader Mohamed Al-Azzani, President of theYemen Basketball Association informing of the new Yemeni Basketball Association administration as well as the final classifications forYemeni Men and Juniors Championships for the season 2006-2007.
The names of the members of Yemen Basketball Association are:
Mr. Al-Khader Mohamed Al-Azzani (President)
Mr. Abdul-Khaleq Abdo Al-Barakani (Vice President)
Mr. Abdul-Rahman Mohamed Al-Rasin (Secretary General)
Mr. Abdul-Karim Rashed Toufiq (Financial Manager)
Mr. Abdul-Karim Yahya Al-Halale (Member)
Mr. Zahir Omar Ali (Member)
Mr. Khaled Yosr Mahmouth (Member)
Date of Affiliation to FIBA: 1971
Rank on FIBA Ranking: 83
Contact:
Yemen Republic Basketball Association
Al-Zubairi Street , Sana'a, P.O. Box 19374, Sana'a
Tel.: +967 (1) 472813 Fax.: +967 (1) 472814
E-mail: info@yemenbasketball.com.ye
Website: www.yemenbasketball.com.ye
2006-2007 Yemeni Basetball Chmapionships:
Final classification
First Division (Men)
1- Tilal (Aden) - Champion
2- Al-Ahli Sana'a (Sana'a) Second place
3- Sha'b Ibb (Ibb) Third Place
4- Yarmouk (Sana'a)
5- Al-Mena (Aden)
6- Shamsan (Aden)
7- Seyoon (Valley Hadramout)
8- Al Wehda (Aden)
The two First Division teams that that have been demoted and will be playing in the Second Division next season are :
1- Al-Hilal (Al-Hodaida)
2- Al-Shorta (Sana'a)
Second Division (Men) teams that will be with the First Division next season are:
1- Shibam (Valley Hadramout )
2- 22 May (Sana'a)
Final classification:
First Division (Junior)
1- Mukalla (Hadramout) Champions
2- Sha'b Hadramout (Hadramout) Second Place
3- Tilal (Aden) Third Place
4- Shamsan (Aden)
5- 22 May (Sana'a)
6- Ahli Sana'a (Sana'a)
7- Al-Wehda (Aden)
8- Shibam (Valley Hadramout)
The two teams who went to the Second Division (Junior) next season are :
1- Al-Wehda (Sana'a)
2- Ahli Al-Ghail (Hadramout)
Junor National Team Prepares for WABA Championships:
National Team (Junior) are in camp to take part in the West Asia Basketball Championshipsto be held in Tehran, Iran 20-24 August 2007
Head coach of the Junior National Team is Mr. Qeiser Elmi and assistanrt coach is Mr. Bastam Mohamed. Mr.Mahmoud Al-Abbasi is the National Junior Team Manager. |
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| Taha Alassari, excellence in Fredonia State and in Yemeni Men's National Team | |
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Taha Alassari (180-G) is a well known national player in Yemen. Based on excellent showing in the United States, he became part of the Yemeni Junior National Basketball team. With Taha Alassari as national junior guard, the junior team was placed 3rd in West Asia classic held in Jordan in 2004. Then he moved to join the Men's national side and led the men's (over 21) Yemen National Team, geting a first ever win for his team in a national tournament in Lebanon. The win was over the Iraqi national team.
Of both Yemeni and American nationality, he also played in Fredonia State Blue Devils for 4 seasons from 2003 to 2007 (being co captain in his last year) and where he majoured in Criminal Justice. In Fredonia State he has had a career high 36 points, 13 rebounds, 9 assists. In the 2006-2007 season, he became the 13th Blue Devil to score 1,000 career points with a 16-point game vs. Buffalo State and had a four-year total of 1,029 points, 10th best at Fredonia State ... led the team with 19 points and had a team high of 5 assists vs. SUNY IT. In an earlier season, he had made a team-high 80 free throws and was 80-105 (76.2%) from the line. Also led team in his thrid year in rebounds (132), assists (79) and steals (37), also ranking second in average scoring and third in three-point field goals
As a senior in his Sweet Home High School 9coached by Paul Shintzus) he was averaging 25 pts 6 asists 5 rebounds (including 30 plus pts in 6 different games). In high school, he was selected to 1st team all conference, 1st team all Amherst Buffalo and 3rd team All Western Network. He was named First Team all league and all conference. |
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| Yemen U18 National Team Roster | |
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| Yemen wins over Iraq and finishes 4th overall in West Asia | |
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| | | Lebanon saw this week the finals of the West Asian Basketball Association (WABA) Men's Championship in the Lebanese capital Beirut June 28 until July 2nd in the elegant closed stadium of Camille Chamoun Cité Sportive. The strong Syrian side withdrew at the last moment citing "securiity concerns" after the assassination of the former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq al Hariri and hasty withdrawal of then Syrian forces from the country. Syria had tried to no avail to change the WABA venue into another country or at least postpone the championship, but the Asian Basketball Confederation (ABC) and the WABA refused, leading to Syria's withdrawal.
Five West Asian countries participated: Hosts Lebanon, also Jordan, Iraq, Iran and Yemen with the Yemeni side coming with the youngest roster of the whole championship. Although Yemenis suffered hige losses against powerful Lebanon by 78 point advantage 118-40, and against Jordan by 104-63 and against Iran, the eventual champions 81-49, they had the last honour in the closing day against Iraqis 59-54.
The Yemeni basketball selection was quite ready to tackle what may be considered as its only feasable chance of any points, meaning its match against the Iraqi side. And Yemeni youth side was up to the challenge winning this key game and finishing its campaign with 1 win and 3 losses in 4 games and finished fourth overall in West Asia. The opponent Iraq posed to be a formidable hurdle and the game a very interesting one for the 4th overall position in West Asia. The game could have gone to either side actually till the closing seconds. Iraqis started quite well ahead 16-13, but with a much better Yemeni performance , the latter regained the lead before half-time 28-27. the third quarter was greatly balanced tit-for-tat affair, but still Yemen held to the lead by one basket 45-43. The Yemeni side proved it could deliver more on the decisive moments and deserved a win at the whisle 59-54 thanks to the Yemeni promissing young player Taha al Osari with 20 points. Iraqi Ali Hussein Hassona who plays professionally for the Bahraini Al Muharraq team was top scorer for Iraq with 14 points.
In the other equally crucial game, Lebanon had an emphatic win over Jordan 90-74 to capture the silver. Iranians had already clenched the gold with a clean sweep after winning all its games in the prior day.
The final classification of WABA 2005 is as follows:
1. Iran 4-0 8 points gold
2. Lebanon 3-1 7 points silver
3. Jordan 2-2 6 points bronze
4. Yemen 1-3 5 points
5. Iraq 0-4 4 points
Top three teams have qualified to the Asian national basketball finals for men to be held in Qatar this summer. Thus Yemen will not qualify for Asia.
Coverage of Yemeni basketball in the Lebanese press:
The Yemeni side (which is headed by head coach the Serbian Rade Vojnovic and his assistant Abdel Kader Ali Yousef al Rayyan) and the whole Yemeni spirited performance took the attention of the Lebanese press that reported on an extensive scale on Yemen's basketball programme. Most notably the Lebanese "Al Balad" daily newspaper published a special page on the Yemeni basketball team. The paper mentioned that the Yemeni Basketball Federation had devised a careful four |
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| Al Ahli Sanaa Cup winner of season 2004/2005: | |
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