FIBA Asia Championship For Women 7

Spaniard Francisco Garcia took charge of the Indian national women’s team in July 2013. Garcia’s coaching credentials are suitably impressive. Prior to joining the Indian squad, he was involved in various coaching programs in Spain, Denmark and Finland. He has also served as a private development coach for a number of elite Spanish women players […]

As always, the women’s final was held first, a little bit earlier in the evening, before the prime-time crowds were expected to show up. Only a few of the other players, close friends, and some of the organizing officials sat through most of the game; looking around the arena, there were far more empty seats […]

Vamos! Vamos! Vamos!” Coach Francisco Garcia energetically roared at the young Indian women on court, “Go! Go! Go!” Garcia – a Spaniard – admits the occasional language gap from his mother tongue to English to Hindi or any of the other regional languages like Marathi, Tamil, or Malayalam that the girls in his team spoke. […]

By tradition, India’s senior national basketball championship – or the ‘Senior Nationals’ – are held in the transition period between one calendar year and another. Although there have been exceptions on the schedule every now and then, for most of India’s finest hoop players, the New Year’s celebrations have been held in preparation or during […]

  With the FIBA Asia Championships looming, Indian basketball has lost its focus (and coaches) at the worst possible time Never before in Indian basketball had optimism spread such, like a happy plague of hoops. It was close to 9 PM in Wuhan, China, on July 13, 2014, when India’s biggest basketball victory – a […]