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Quote:In a surprising decision to everyone, The American head coach of Qatar national team Kent Davison decided to stop his career with the team and leave back to the US due to some personal issues, Former national team player Ali Fakhro will take over the team for the long FIBA Summer 2009 journey up to the FIBA Asia Championship in Tianjin, China next August.

Kent DavisonDavison led Qatar to win the last FIBA Gulf Championship in Oman as he began to make a new team with a mixture betwen experience and youth's dynamic from around one year ago.

The new head coach Fakhro who worked with several forgein head coaches during the last few years began trainings yesterday with 14 called up players as he asked for 3 more and they're: Marzooq Abu-Sabbar A adding to the brothers Saleem Abdullah Mohammed (202-C-82) and Saleem Abdullah Malek (195-F-85).

Ali Fakhro - New Qatar Head Coach- The 14 called up players are:

Daoud Musa (193-G-82) of Qatar SC
Yaseen Ismail (204-F-80) of Al Rayyan
Saad Abdulrahman Ali (193-F-85) of As Sadd
Erfan Ali Saeed (200-F-83) of Al Rayyan
Omar Abdgader Salem (205-C-83) of Qatar SC
Ali Turki (201-F-82) of Al Jaysh Army SC
Hammam Ismail (200-C/F-83) of Al Wakra
Khalid Abdi (198-F-87) of As Sadd
Hashem Zaidan (211-C-80) of Al Ahli
Suleyman Abu Faisal (177-G-82) of Al Arabi

Bader Tawfeeq
Ali Al Kawari
Mohammad Abdalla Ali
Naif Al Naimi


Head Coach: Ali Fakhro
Assistant: Mohammad Orabi
Assistant: Khaled Haroon
Assistant: Saeed Mubarak

* Mansour El Hadary (178-G-90) and Ahmad Bakr are injured and they may join the team in the near future.

Qatar- Qatar National Team preperations plan: A camp in France (June 13 - 29)

1st Qatar Invitational Tournament (July 1 - 5, Participating teams: Iran, Lebanon, Egypt and Qatar)

2nd Qatar Invitational Tournament (July 6 - 9, Participating teams: Jordan, Tunisia, Egypt and Qatar)

William Jones Cup in Taiwan (July 18 - 27)

FIBA Asia Championship in Tianjin, China (August 6 - 16)
Respect and thanks for everything:

Alvertis, Bodiroga, Jasikevicius, Radja, Wilkins, Vrankovic, Fotsis, Rebraca, Kattash, Gentile, Koch, Middleton, Kutluay, Rogers, Papadopoulos, Becirovic, Tomasevic, Siskauskas, Pekovic, Lakovic, Vujanic, Chatzivrettas, Maljkovic, Spanoulis and many more to follow in the near future.
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