The national male basketball team, the D’Tigers will open their 2025 Afrobasket account Wednesday as they battle Mozambique in their first game of Group B which also has three-time winners and reigning champions Tunisia and Cameroon.
Leading the team in a technical crew made of an entire home coaches is Head coach Mohammed Abdulrahman who was part of the coaching crew in 2015 when D’Tigers emerged African champions for the first and only time in their history.
Abdulrahman will be assisted by Deji Akindele and Ikenna Smart to thinker with the squad parading co-captains Ike Nwamu and Stan Okoye. Okoye is the only member of the winning squad of 2015.
On Friday, they will play their second game against Tunisia, the current champions before battling Cameroon in their last group game on Sunday. On August 18, the competition’s knockout stages will start, and on August 24, the final will take place at the Pavilhão Multiusos de Luanda.
The D’Tigers are aiming for just their second continental championship 10 after they won it under American coach, William Voigt.
