Coach Deda sets out Madagascar’s 3x3 basketball ambitions
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on L'Express de Madagascar
Jean de Dieu Randrianarivelo, coach of Madagascar’s senior men’s 3x3 basketball team, gave his assessment of the sport in an interview in Mahamasina. Known as Coach Deda, he attended the Alley Hoop tournament held the previous weekend, L’Express de Madagascar reports.
Madagascar men’s national 3x3 basketball coach Jean de Dieu Randrianarivelo, known as Coach Deda, believes the country has young players capable of progressing to the highest level. At the eighth edition of the Alley Hoop tournament in Mahamasina, he identified several young players between 1.90m and 2m tall, according to L’Express de Madagascar.
The coach considers physical conditioning the main priority for remaining competitive against the best African and global nations. He called for better support for young talents and said Madagascar, already held up as an African model in the discipline, can no longer lose ground to other countries on the continent, L’Express de Madagascar reports.
Coach Deda also said the Malagasy team had already shown it could compete at continental level. He was speaking at the event held the previous weekend in Mahamasina, according to the same outlet.
