Disabled team to bring trophy home!!(hopefully)
Lenasia’s wheelchair basketball team are getting ready for the first national tournament to be hosted in the Johannesburg township.
The tournament named ‘the winter games’ is to be held at the Yusuf Akhalwaya and Prakash Napier complex,the tournament runs over a period of two days and begin june 20th,ofcourse we hope Lenasians will provide moral supportto the team.
Team member Samir asmal has this to say:
“We are an extremely new team. We haven’t played at a totally competitive level,” said Asmal.
“Initially we didn’t have all the resources, and now that we’ve got ourselves started, we can go from strength to strength.
“Realistically we are not expecting much from our performance, but we are going to be exposed to this, and what we can learn from it is what matters,” he said.
Which I believe is great that they has set there target and what there goal is to coming to the games and i am sure that no matter the outcome they will be better prepared and more geared towards bringing that trophy home.(my apologies for the lack of visuals seems the lenasia team has not been getting much publicity).
The team members vary in age from 18 to 40 and over.
Asmal, a defender, said the main objective was to get the physically disabled interested in sport irrespective of their ages.
“Most of the people we know were disabled through accidents and such occurrences, and what tends to happen is they normally go into a shell and they don’t want to socialise. Based on that, we formed the organisation and the team to allow them to get back into mainstream society.”