| Qualification for Afrobasket 2025 is within reach of Ankoay |
Returning to the country from Egypt, after playing the first qualifying window for Afrobasket 2025, the members of the Ankoay senior men’s national team each joined their original club. They have one year to prepare before starting the second qualification window scheduled for February 2025, the location of which remains to be determined. The question is to know the real assets that the Ankoay have to qualify for Afrobasket 2025.
Third in Group D behind Ivory Coast and Egypt, Madagascar has a chance of qualifying, but caution is advised. Faced with the checkered, half-baked results observed in Egypt, laborious work remains to be done.
A year passes so quickly that, from now on, the Malagasy Basketball Federation must make the necessary arrangements. The Ankoay’s third place is misleading if the technical staff and players think that the Central Africans will give up in 2025.
Weak points
On the contrary, they will do everything to overtake Madagascar, because the first three teams in Pool D will qualify for Afrobasket 2025.
According to the analysis of Ndranto Rakotonanahary, one of the coaches of the Ankoay national team, the Central African Republic intends to strengthen its national team to catch up. “For our part, we must work more, make the necessary scouting and adjustments, but above all organize many more groupings and friendly matches (against worthy opponents) in order to improve the synergy of the team and the experience of the players. high-intensity matches,” says coach Ndranto. “Scouting” is working on video to study the way of playing, the strategies and techniques used by the opponent in basketball.
The weak points of the Ankoay national team, during the first window, are based on three shortcomings: the lack of shooting skills against the Egyptians, too many team errors before the halfway point of each quarter and the weakness in rebounds defensive.
The four teams in Pool D played the first window matches in Egypt. They allowed us to see the level of each team. The return match will be decisive, and the need to cast a wide net to look for two or three tall players (over 2m) is more than essential for Madagascar.
Donné Raherinjatovo