WABA Superleague , Back to the Track !

[SOLO]

Riyadi vs Jalaa game will be held next week in Qatar

[golebanon]

Riyadi vs Jalaa game will be held next week in Qatar

thanks for your update,i'm wondering if the syrian team will accept this option.

[Khalid80]

thanks for your update,i'm wondering if the syrian team will accept this option.

That's the best option at the moment considering the current situation in Syria... I'm sure that the Syrian Bball Federation also wouldn't want to have a large amount of people gathering at a particular place because you never know if these fans might end up chanting slogans which could be political and thus leading to more problems...

[golebanon]

That's the best option at the moment considering the current situation in Syria... I'm sure that the Syrian Bball Federation also wouldn't want to have a large amount of people gathering at a particular place because you never know if these fans might end up chanting slogans which could be political and thus leading to more problems...

according to sports-leb,neither the lebanese team nor the syrian one have accepted this option.
riyadi's schedule is busy,they can't play at that date.
regarding al-jalaa,they're still insisting to host the last game.so,what's the solution?i've got sick of this joke.

[wilo22]

Riyadi have won the cup
Jalaa team didn't go to jordan to play the game.
Soon Waba will give the trophy to riyadi in a special ceremony in Beirut

Waba Champions Cup titles by team:

1-Sagesse and Riyadi(Lebanon) 3 times
2-Al Wahda(Syria) and Mahram(Iran) 2 times
3-Saba and Sanam (Iran) and Orthodox(Jordan) 1times

P.S. in 2006 Saba and Sagesse reached the final but the 5th game wasn't played and there was no champion for that edition(both teams were awarded the second place)

[mavrick_h]

14/05/2011

SYR - Jala’a can play Manila, but banned from WAL for two years


BEIRUT, Lebanon (WABA League): The WABA board on Friday decided to impose a two-year ban on Syrian team Al Jala’a, which defaulted from playing the Game 5 of this year’s WABA League Finals.

Jala’a, who were also fined US $ 30,000, however can play in the forthcoming 22nd FIBA Asia Champions Cup as a WABA representative.

“We looked at the issue in different perspectives,” explained WABA Secretary General Hagop Khajirian (right in the pic above).

“But let me make it clear at the outset that we followed the WABA League Regulations. All our decisions are based on that,” he added.

“On the one hand, was the issue of Jala’a representing WABA in this year’s FIBA Asia Champions Cup. Jala’a had as a matter of fact qualified for the Manila event, when they became the only Syrian team to qualify for the semifinals of the WABA League. We didn’t want to change that, because it will affect the players who had worked hard,” Khajirian said.

“On the other, was the serious issue of Jala’a not turning up for the Game 5 of the Finals which was scheduled on a neutral territory,” he said.

Jala’a had won the first two games of the Finals against Al Riyadi Beirut of Lebanon at Aleppo, before the latter won the next two at Beirut to tie the series and push it to Game 5.

Game 5 was scheduled to be played at Amman on April 28, for which Jala’a did not turn up thereby handing over the title to the Lebanese by forfeit.

“Their (Jala’a) absence from Game 5 was a breach of trust on all accounts – with our marketing and television partners as well as thousands of basketball fans in our region. A lot of people had put a lot at stake for the WABA League which was revived this year. With Jala’a playing truant a lot of that hard work was undone. We could not tolerate such misbehavior,” Khajirian said.

Incidentally, Jala’a are drawn alongside Riyadi along with another WABA team Mahram of Iran, Qatar’s Al Rayyan and Emirians Al Shabab in Group B of the 22nd Champions Cup starting in Manila on May 28.

FIBA Asia