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Voigt wants D’Tigers coaching role full-time

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Coach of Nigeria’s men basketball team, Will Voigt, has expressed his confidence that he will sign a new deal to continue coaching the team.

The 40-year-old led D’Tigers to their first-ever continental title at AfroBasket 2015 and led the team to the 2016 Olympics in Rio.

Voigts has been in charge on a temporary basis, but wants the job full time.

“I am very hopeful of getting everything in place soon with the federation so I can begin the preparations for the AfroBasket this summer,” he told FIBA.com.

“I’ve said all along I would love for the position to be full time, to be able to invest all of my time and effort on growing the game in Nigeria and that’s from the bottom up, from the grass roots system, working with our youth teams, doing clinics, working with our coaches.

“That’s how I would like to see that job. As of right now, the job has only been part-time and for qualifying tournaments.”

Voigts is currently coaching in China with CBA side Shanxi Dragons.

Nigeria’s D’Tigers Now 16th In Latest FIBA World Ranking

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Nigeria’s men basketball team, D’Tigers have moved 9 places to rank 16th (with 106.2 points) in the 2016 FIBA World Ranking released on Thursday.

The African champions outshone their arch rivals, Angola to lift the Nations Cup for the first time last year which earned the country an automatic qualification to the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.

The performance of teams at the just concluded Games also led to drastic changes on the ranking table.

Others with noticeable jumps are Venezuela, Serbia and Brazil while Germany, Angola, Iran and Greece have had the biggest falls after failing to qualify for a second straight Olympics.

Venezuela (115.4 points), the 2015 FIBA Americas Championship winners have risen to No. 15.

Angola (66) and Iran (53.2) dropped eight places to No. 23 and No. 25, respectively, and Germany (31) fell nine places to No. 29.

Nigeria, by this ranking, is now the highest ranked African team while Tunisia who were however, not at the Olympics also gained two steps to now occupy the 21st position from 23rd, ahead of Angola.

Serbia (553), after winning two of their five games in Group A of the Olympics’ basketball event, have leapfrogged Lithuania and France into third place.

They now trail No.1 USA (1000), who won a gold medal at the Olympics for a third straight time, and Spain (665), who finished third.

The Serbians, who suffered a heavy defeat to the Americans in the title game, just as they did at the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup in Madrid, are well clear of No. 4 France (444), No. 5 Lithuania (442) and No. 6 Argentina (360).

The Lithuanians and Argentinians played at the Olympics and reached the Quarter-Finals but lost to Australia and the USA, respectively.

Brazil (323) hosted the Summer Games and climbed two spots to No. 7 despite not advancing to the last eight.

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Buhari Congratulates D’Tigers For Winning African Basketball Championship

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President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated the national men’s basketball team, D’Tigers, on their victory over Angola in Sunday’s final of the FIBA Africa Basketball Championship in Tunisia.

In a statement on Monday, presidential spokesperson, Femi Adesina, said the President has assured that his administration will give the team and Nigeria’s other representatives at the next year’s Olympic Games, in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, the fullest possible support to ensure that they are well prepared to excel against the champions of other countries and regions.

He said: “President Buhari joins other sports-loving Nigerians in applauding D’Tigers’ exhilarating 74-65 victory over their Angolan opponents which also secured Nigeria’s qualification for the men’s basketball event at next year’s Olympic Games in Rio De Janeiro,”

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