The draw of the European Basketball League put in its ranks the Belgian champion Kengaro, Tamara Nader Al-Sayed, in the second round, against the Hungarian Sorbonne, the Spanish champion Perfumeras, the Italian champion Beretta Familia, the French champion Landis, the Turkish champion Mersin Shahir and Hungarian Cup champion Diosgyori.
It should be noted that the Belgian champion Kengaro announced in October her contract with Tamara Nader, coming from Nyon, runner-up in the Swiss Women’s Basketball League, to become the first Egyptian basketball player in history to qualify for the Euroleague.
In a different context, Al-Ahly lost the Arab League title after losing to Kuwait in the championship final, settling for second place, after getting full points in the first round and finals matches, except for the only defeat against the champion of the current version.
The list of Al-Ahly basketball men in the tournament included: Saif Samir, Muhammad Abu Al-Nasr, Ihab Amin, Amr Al-Jundi, Omar Tarek, Ahmed Moheeb, Amr Zahran, Omar Azab, Marwan Sarhan, Ahmed Ismail, Moamen Tariq Khairy, Abdullah Nasser, Michael Fakoudi and Walter Hodge.
The Spaniard Augusti Bosch had managed to crown the team with five championships before, namely the Arab Club Championship, the Associated League Championship, in addition to the Cairo Region Championship, the Egypt Cup, which he had crowned at the expense of the Alexandrian Federation, and also the Super League championship is Augusti’s fifth career title with Al Ahly.
