South Sudan’s fairytale basketball story is an inspiration to many

When the first round of the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023 Africa qualifiers came to a close on July 3, with games played in Egypt, Cote D’Ivoire, and Rwanda, 12 teams had secured spots in the second round of qualifiers commencing at the end of August in a 2 group format, with Cote D’Ivoire, Angola, Guinea, Cape Verde, Nigeria, and Uganda in one and South Sudan, Tunisia, Cameroon, Egypt, DR Congo, and Senegal in the other. This sets up some tough matches in the next round but there are already some significant stories here.

South Sudan wows at the FIBA World Cup qualifiers

Africa’s “Cinderella story”, is South Sudan, the side that became the talk of the basketball town after finishing the first round of qualifiers undefeated (6-0) and beating Africa Champions Tunisia for the second time in this window – despite the presence of Tunisian superstars, Michael Roll, and Salah Mejri.

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