The Lebanese National Basketball team won the FIBA Asia Stanković Cup 2010, which is a qualifying event for the FIBA Asia Championship that will be held in Beirut in 2011.
Lebanon defeated Japan easily in the finals, in a game that was attended by the president of the republic Michel Sleiman, Interior minister Ziad Baroud and MP Sheikh Nadim Gemayel.
I attended the semi-finals against the Phillipines but stayed home to watch the final as it is too damn hot in the stadium and very chaotic.
Nevertheless, Mabrouk la Lebnen!
PS: Lebanon is ranked 24th worldwide according to the FIBA.
Wow, this is..kind of impressive! Great job guys! Since I’ve been here I’ve noticed that basketball is hugely popular here..If I’m still here in 2011, I’ll be sure to attend the qualifying event!
First mabrouk for Lebanon! But I wonder how come those dickheads who were honking in cars for brazil and Germany didn’t do the same for their own country
was asking someone else about this after the stankovic win and he didn’t know, so thought i’d put it to you guys — how come the lebanese basketball team is never in the olympics?? you’d think they would be able to qualify usually even if not every time. is there some political/bureaucratic issue bc of the craptastic-ness of the olympic committee? or what?