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Zimbabwe Afro-basket team arrives in Germany

The Zimbabwe basketball team is now in Germany for a 10 day camp Ellery Pinkerton is using for his charges to prepare for the Afro-basket extravaganza slated for the 19th to the 30th of August. The team left for Germany on Saturday and arrived in Munich on Sunday afternoon.

One of the players told Zimsportsnews.com they were in Munich and waiting to connect to Hamburg. The Zimbabwean team is set to play friendly encounters with German Bundesliga outfits during their stay in the European nation. Among sides Zimbabwe will clash with during their 10 day visit of Germany is Bundesliga outfit Hamburg Basketball verband.

The Zim basketball team will also meet with the German national side in a friendly to be played a day before heading to Tunisia. Zimbabwe has been preparing for the Afro-Basketball championships by holding several camps but encounters against German sides are expected to adequately prepare the team for competitive action in Tunisia.

The Zim team will begin their Afro-basket campaign with a showdown against Algeria on 20 August. Zimbabwe will then lock horns with Ivory Coast on the 22nd before rounding off their campaign in the group stages by clashing with Cape Verde on the 24th.

With talented players such as Vitalis Chikoko, Wilson Juma and and Tinotenda Mugabe Zimbabwean coach Ellery Pinkerton should be confident of going beyond the group stage.

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