African Basketball Supremacy Has Won 11 Titles In 13 Years And Bought Shoes From Their Own Pockets.

< p > with the 58 day to 74 defeat of the Chinese team in the Stankovic Cup final battle the day before yesterday, the Angola men's basketball team ended the game with four defeats and four defeats and a total loss of 66 points.

But even if the performance is not very good, the Angola team members will happily accept the group photo invitation of each fan after the game, and smile to volunteer to say "thank you" in Chinese before leaving. When the reporter put forward the interview, the coach simply invited the reporters to the bus, and all the people were laughing and laughing all the way, and there was no sign of displeasure.

"Competition always wins and loses. At least we are doing what we like."

Angola captain Gomes said, "why not enjoy the happiness brought by basketball?" < /p >

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Joaquim Gomez, P, 34, is the fifth time to play in China and is the only veteran player in the Angola team who has been over 30 years old.

"This is our two team. Many people are playing for the first time on behalf of the state.

Our team is now playing a warm-up match in Brazil. They are the men who are going to Spain to play in the world championships.

Gomes said.

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"Http://sjfzxm.com/news/index_cj.as", as a "old friend of Chinese fans", was a bit unexpected for Gomes to play for the two teams in Angola. After all, he was the winner of the two African men's Basketball Championship M V P. Four years ago, the world championships in Turkey played with the US team. He scored 21 points in front of the "dream team" of a few N BA stars. Even Gomes himself admitted that when he returned to China, his status was somewhat like "Yao Ming in Africa": "Angolan people used to like basketball very much. People are very crazy. Whenever I open their faces, they will stop around me, but to tell the truth, I still like that feeling." < p > < a href=

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< p > with the Chinese men's basketball team's status as the former Asian hegemony, Angola has long dominated the African basketball world. In the past 13 years, they have won 11 non championship championships, so basketball is very popular in Angola.

"As long as the national team is on TV, people will drop everything to see the ball."

Gomes said, "although football may be the first sport, Angola men's soccer team has not won the African Championship, and we have taken it!" < /p >

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< p > even in Africa's ruling basketball circles for many years, but Angola basketball professionalism is still far behind CB A. Gomes revealed that they did not have a professional league until two years ago. A total of 11 teams played, of which only 4 were composed of professional players, and the other 7 teams were basically amateur players.

"The level of those teams is very low, many people are part time jobs," Gomes said. "The club also has no money to buy medical insurance and physical trainers for them."

Once the other 4 top teams meet, especially if they have the chance to enter the national team, the treatment will be completely different. The government will allocate funds to every national team player, at least the cost of living is not a problem.

However, even at the level of Gomes, he has never found any commercial endorsement contract, no sponsor, so far he has to pay for his own shoes.

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< p > "none of us has sponsors.

I know that if you can enter N B A when you are young, everything will be different.

But what can I say? I can only say that I am not good enough.

Gomes is very clear about this matter. Even if he is "down" to represent the Angola two team, he has not lost much sense of loss. Instead, he took the initiative to mention Yao Ming to the reporter: "when I first met the Chinese team, Yao Ming was still there. It was in the 2002 Indianapolis World Championships, when you had a big guy who was very strong and what was it called?" the reporter told him that it was Battelle and is still playing basketball, but Yao Ming has already become a boss.

"I heard that Yao Ming was a smart guy. It's a pity that he retired so early."

Then Gomes asked Yi Jianlian again, "where did he go? He could not have fought either." after learning that the Chinese team decided to give Yi Jianlian a vacation this year, Gomes nodded. "Look at you, there are so many players who have entered N B A, there are many sponsors, none of whom we have ever had."

But he didn't look very envious. "Because we are good, at least I enjoy my life now."

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