BBA under FIBA scrutiny

Yee Chun Leong
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN

Saturday, November 10, 2012

THE Brunei Basketball Association (BBA) will have to clean up their act after years of poor organisation.

FIBA (International Basketball Association) Sports Director of Sport and Eligibility Lubomir Kotleba (pic) was in Brunei and he brought up a number of issues during a general meeting with the BBA committee yesterday.

Kotleba raised questions on why FIBA tournaments were not organised in the Sultanate, adding that the national team have not participanted in any international FIBA tournaments in years.

Their last FIBA competition was the TOA Thailand Open Phuket Championship 2012 in September but that was only on a club level.

Even the issue on funding for the BBA for development was discussed.

It was made known that the BBA only receives funding through the government on an annual basis and not from other sources.

Kotleba felt that the BBA was not doing enough to secure more local sponsorships.

He then revealed that there are seven out of 212 countries without any FIBA referees and Brunei is one of them.

The sports director added that the Sultanate is also the only one without a FIBA certified referee in the whole of Asia. Read More…

Source: The Brunei Times