Libyan Basketball Players - Alpha Bangura, Hesham Salem, Suleiman Ali Nashnush, Mohamed Youssef Ben Elhaj, Wajdi Dawo, Raed Elhamali (Paperback)

Chapters: Alpha Bangura, Hesham Salem, Suleiman Ali Nashnush, Mohamed Youssef Ben Elhaj, Wajdi Dawo, Raed Elhamali, Eslam El Karbal. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 21. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Alfath Belgasem (born February 4, 1980) is a Sierra Leone-Libyan basketball player who competed as a member of the Libya national basketball team at the FIBA Africa Championship 2009 and playing professionally for Sporting Al Riyadi Beirut of the Lebanese Basketball League.. Belgasem, then known as Alpha Bangura played NCAA basketball at St. John's University for two years after starting his career at Monmouth University. Following his college career, Bangura has played professional basketball in the United States with the CBA and USBL and overseas in Portugal, Israel, Spain, Japan, Puerto Rico, Lebanon, Kuwait, and Venezuela. In 2008-09, Bangura spent most of the year with the Rio Grande Valley Vipers of the D-League, averaging 18.9 points per game over 26 games before being traded to the Bakersfield Jam for the last nine games of the season.. In 2010 he signed with Sporting Al Riyadi Beirut playing his first match in the league against runner ups Al Mouttahed Tripoli. Belgasem was one of the most consistent members of the Libyan team that finished 11th as the host country in the 2009 FIBA Africa Championship. He averaged 14.4 points per game over six games for the Libyans before only playing one minute in two games the consolation bracket. Belgasem scored a game high 25 points and grabbed seven rebounds in the opening game against South Africa to send the Libyans into the eighth finals. Belgasem again scored a game high 23 points in a two point victory Libyan over Egypt in the eighth finals, its only victory in that round. ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=2418536