The story, better known by the ‘coffee growers’ of basketball, is making the rounds Olympic Games. And not because the Organizing Committee played their anthem badly in the first match against Puerto Rico. The basketball team of Sudan of theOnthe youngest country in the world that saw the light in 2011; and experienced a bloody civil war with terrifying figures throughout the decade (2013-2020), is one of the fairy tales of Paris2024. Its architect is Luol Dengwho once fled with his family to Egypt (where he met Manute Bol) and, after passing through London (his father, a minister, took refuge there), he flew to USACaptured in the Blair AcademyI study in Duke and was a star of the NBA in the Chicago Bulls. Already retired, after a few years of nomadism, he had a dream. Aware of the physical potential that existed in his country, and of players who had their origins there even though they had been born in other places on the planet (Carlik Jonesin Cincinnati; Marial Shayok, Ottawa), became president and patron of basketball in South Sudan in 2019 convinced that he would make it the dominant country in Africa in basketball, like Kenya y Ethiopia They are in athletics
