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| Newly appointed interim coach of D'Tigers of Nigeria |
The Nigeria Basketball Federation
has contracted American born Basketball coach,William B. Voigt ahead of others to lead its campaign at the 2015
Aftobasket Men’s Tournament in Tunisia ,media head of the Federation,Patrick Omorodion stated in a release made available to amarignis.blogspot.com
Coach Voigt was the Head Coach/General
Manager of the Bakersfield Jam of the NBA Development League from August 2009
to July 2014 during which period he won more games than any other Coach in the
D-League and helped his team to be regular Season Champions in 2012-2013.
Others who submitted applications for the job are Nigeria's 2012 Olympic team assistant coaches Sani Ahmed
and Timothy Shea.
On the foreign list we have Josep
Maria Berrocal Riera (Spain), Ricardo Daniel Maffei (Argentina), Guy
Arnaud (France), Sodini Marco (Italy), Dennis
Felton (USA) and Aramis Naglic (Croatia).
Coach Voigt was offered a short
term contract until September to win the Afrobasket and qualify Nigeria for the
2016 Rio Olympic Games. If he succeeds, he will be the Coach to lead the team
to the Olympics. He is to be assisted by a team of Assistant Coaches and Video
analyst. Coaches Ayinla Johnson and Abdulrahaman Mohammed as well as the team
doctor and physiotherapist will keep their positions from the 2013 coaching
staff.
The new Coach will not be new to
the National team and Nigerian Basketball environment as he has previously
coached two of the team’s standouts, Alade Aminu and Ike Diogu in the NBA
D-League and has also volunteered in Summer Basketball Camps organised by Masai
Ujiri in Zaria and Lagos between 2004 and 2008.
The National team training camp is
expected to open in Abuja on 15th July with both home and foreign
based players.
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