Nigeria: Basketball Wild Card - Fiba Ignores Africa Again As Nigeria Loses Out

2 February 2014

Africa was once again overlooked by basketball's world governing body, FIBA as the continent's only candidate for one of the four wild cards available for teams, Nigeria, failed to impress officials of the body's Central Board who looked towards Europe and South America.

Three European countries namely Greece, ranked 5th in the world, Turkey, ranked 7th, Finland, ranked 39th and South America's Brazil, who are ranked 19th were picked as the wild card winners as announced by FIBA Secretary General and International Olympic Committee (IOC) member, Patrick Baumann yesterday.

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