Egypt faces China in Women’s U19 basketball World Cup

CAIRO – 26 July 2017: The women’s U-19 basketball national team meets China on Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. Cairo local time in the round of 16 in the World Cup held in Italy from July 22 to 30.

The national team led by the coach Haitham Eid had lost in the first round from the Russian national team 114-63, then our team managed to achieve their first victory in the history of Egypt participations in the World Cup against Puerto Rico with 69-52, then lost from Spain 88-71.

The squad list of the women’s U19 national team includes 12 players: Miral Ashraf, Rana Alaa, Toqa Gamal, Asrar Maged, Mariam Hossam, Hana Yasser, Radwa Salem, Rana Abdel Zaher, Nadine Rehan, Nesma Abdel Rahman, Ganna Mostafa.

The Italian women’s U19 basketball World Cup contains 16 teams, the African continent participates with two teams which are Egypt and Mali, the world cup teams are: Australia, Canada, China, Egypt, France, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Mali, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Russia, Spain, South Korea, United States.