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2025 Afrobasket semifinal commercials: d’Unigress, lionesse to rekindle the old rivalry
Abidjan (Core reporter) will be a family rivalry on Thursday 31 July, in the light of the Palais de Sports Treichville of Abidjan when they defend the vision of the Egigra of Nigeria, the Lionesses of Cameroon in the quarterfinals of 2025 Afrobasket.
D’Adue waited late on Wednesday evening to find out that it is an opponent in the last eight after Cameroon defeated Angola convincing 85 – 64 points to further confirm the state in difficulty of Angolan women’s basketball.
The Nigerian girls are heading to today (Thursday) well rested and refreshed after two days without a game, enjoying the advantage of ending up in her group first.
The team of the coach Rena Wakama was enhanced with the availability of an expert shooting guard, Sarah Ogoke, who lost the two previous games of the team in the tournament.
The player veteran hopes to bring his wealth of experience to the team to Bare, being a key member of the last four winning teams of the Afrobasket title.
The coach Rene Wakama accused his team of increasing the game and expressed the trust that the team is starting to recover the rhythm.
“This is the commercial end of the tournament and as a team we know what is at stake and we are following our objectives set with every game”.
“Afrobasket is becoming harder and shows the improvement of the female game standard on the continent and today’s game against Cameroon will make no difference,” said Wakama.
The main journalists report that today (Thursday) will be full of actions at the Palais de Sports Treichville, since all the final games of four quarters will be decided. Uganda will face the debutants surprised by Sudan who downloaded Egypt in the playoff round in the first game before Mali played at Mozambique and hosted the squares of the Ivory Coast against Senegal in another captivating clash and Nigeria plays at Cameroon in the last Nigerian time game.
