Manama take on Muharraq

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BAHRAIN SPORT
Gulf Daily News Tuesday, 6th January 2015
Manama take on Muharraq
DEFENDING league champions Manama will take on
cup defending champions
Muharraq in the first leg of
the Bahrain Zain Super Cup Championship at 7pm today at the Bahrain
Basketball Association Sports Hall in
Um Al Hassam.
The Zain Super Cup Championship
is being held annually between league
and cup title holders. Manama won
last season’s league title, while Muharraq won the cup title for the same
season.
The Super Cup Championship this
season will be held in a best-of-three
series, with the winner of two games
n Manama
claiming the crown. The other matches
will be held on January 9 and 12 at the
same time and venue.
Manama currently are leading the
league championship with 10 points
from five matches, and they seem to
be stronger than ever, thanks to team
captain Mohammed Hussain, along
with teammates Ahmed Abdulaziz,
Hassan Nawrooz, Mohammed Ku-
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n Muharraq
wayyed, Younis Kuwayyed, Ahmed
Najaf, Mohammed Ameer and other
young players.
The team is being coached by American Sam Vincent.
Muharraq, on the other hand, is being coached by Maz Trakh who was
once an assistant coach in the National Basketball Association (NBA)
and who will be looking for his first
title with Muharraq. The team went
through hard times in the league after
some of their star players like Mohammed Hassan and Mohammed Abdulmajeed got injured during this season.
Fortunately, Abdulmajeed has fully recovered and is set to play in this
match. Hassan, however, will not be fit
to play tonight.
The other big names in the
team are point guard Ahmed
Hassan Al Derazi, along with
Bader Abdulla, Kathim Majed,
Ali Abbas, Hussain Al Moosawi, Abdulrahman Ghali and
American’s Herbert Hill.
Bahrain to end
Australia camp
THE Bahrain national soccer team will
conclude its training
camp in Balart City,
Australia, today before heading to Melbourne to compete
in the Asian Cup which kicks
off on Friday.
Bahrain is in Group ‘C’ with
the UAE, Iran and Qatar.
The Bahrain team has been
in Balart City since December
26 following a five-day training camp in Kuala Lumpur. In
Australia, Bahrain played two
friendlies and won both, a 4-1
victory over Saudi Arabia last
Tuesday and a 1-0 win over
Jordan on Sunday.
Bahrain begin their campaign on Saturday against Iran
in Melbourne and then take on
the UAE on January 15 in Canberra and finish their league engagements with a clash against
Qatar in Sydney on January 19.
Yesterday coach Marjan Eid
held a 90-minute training session. Physical fitness specialist
Dean Taylor and fitness trainer
Jose Carlos tested the players
physical fitness.
Goalkeeping coach Abdulla
Belal worked separately with
the goalkeepers for an hour
while defender Mohammed
Daej was rested yesterday due
VILLA CARLOS PAZ, Argentina:
THE Bahrain Tennis
Club (BTC), headed
by chairman Khamis
Mohammed Al Moqlah, praised the cooperation
between BTC and Ebrahim
Khalil Kanoo Company over
the last years.
In particular, BTC hailed the
company for sponsoring the
Third Ebrahim Khalil Kanoo
Tennis Juniors Open Championship which will be held from
tomorrow to January 19.
BTC board members thanked
Ebrahim Khalil Kanoo Company Chairman Fuad Kanoo for
their support to BTC activities
and supporting the championships organised by the club.
Meanwhile, the BTC have issued the Third Ebrahim Khalil
Kanoo Tennis Open Juniors
Championship matches schedule set by the technical committee. The matches schedule
is available at the BTC official
website www.bahraintennisclub.com and other social networks (Facebook, Twitter and
Whatsapp).
Albi outplay
ACL in T20
n The Bahrain national
team training session
to an injury he suffered during
the match against Jordan.
Balart City Mayor John Phillips visited the last training
session of the team and met
Al-Attiyah stripped of
Dakar opener victory
Qatar’s Nasser Al-Attiyah
was stripped of victory on the
opening stage of the Dakar
Rally on Sunday for exceeding
the speed limit while defending
champion Nani Roma saw his
hopes shattered.
Mini driver Al-Attiyah, the
2011 champion, had finished
first on the 170km timed
stage between Buenos Aires
and Villa Carlos Paz, clocking 1 hour 12 minutes.
That was 22 secs faster
than Argentina’s Orlando
Terranova, also in a Mini,
and 1min 04secs ahead of
BTC praises
Kanoo support
American Robby Gordon behind the wheel of a Hummer.
But seven hours later,
Al-Attiyah was punished
for travelling at 68km/h in a
section of the stage where the
limit was 50km/h.
He was penalised two minutes and relegated to seventh
place on the stage with Terranova declared the winner
ahead of Gordon and South
Africa’s Giniel de Villiers in a
Toyota. Veteran Peugeot drivers Carlos Sainz and Stephane
Peterhansel placed eighth and
10th respectively at 2 mins
06secs and 2 mins 35secs.
Bahrain Football Association
president and head of the delegation Shaikh Ali bin Khalifa
Al Khalifa and wished the team
success.
Bachelor Goans ‘A’ win title
n Bachelor Goans ‘A’ team
BACHELOR Goans ‘A’
won the Bahrain Goans’
Seven-A-Side Football
Tournament defeating
Married Goans ‘B’ 1-0.
Elton Fernandes scored the
winning goal.
In the plate competition,
Married Goans ‘A’ beat Bachelor Goans ‘B’ 2-1.
(Individual awards) Best
goalkeeper: Eusepio Fernandes of Married Goans ‘A’.
Best defender: Salman Attar
of Bachelor Goans ‘A’. Player-of-the-tournament: Dylan
Dias of Bachelor Goans ‘A’.
The tournament was conducted and managed by Bahrain Goans Football League Committee.
ALBI defeated ACL
by seven wickets in the
BFC-sponsored Cricket Bahrain (BCL-CBA
Division) Diamond League
T-20 tournament.
Batting first, Albi was led by
Danushka top scoring with 28,
and Priyesh making 19. Bilal
top scored for ACL with 24.
Falcons beat RCB by four
wickets with Hari top scoring
with 18 and Linson making 18.
Other results:
Central Café 135/6 ( Naveen 35,
Suraj 27) beat Pak Hawks 95/9 (
Hassam 17, Sagar 4/6, Sooraj 2/10)
by 40 runs.
Shahzad Zafar Global Star 202/6 (
Hamid 87, Shahzad 44, Anand 3/29,
Pradeep 2/24) beat GT Abdulaal
98/10 (Chris 98/10, Khalid 5/9, Asif
2/26) by 1014 runs.
Pristine 154/8 ( Rashid 36, Asim
23, Danish 4/13) beat Kannada Sanga 127/8 (Imran 59, Shakeel 2/163)
by 27 runs.
LuLu Lions 135/6 (Abi 36, Sooraj
35) beat Al Hekma 131/7 (Mohamed
Ghouse 45, Kamarul Islam 27, Nishan 3/13) by 4 runs
Young Star 89/3 in 15.4 overs
(Zubair 32, Atif 21) beat Amguard
Matrix 88/10 (Shitihn 19, Atif 3/15,
Iqbal 2/14) by 7 wickets

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