Today, the semi-finals of the 35th Arab Club Basketball Championship will be held in Al-Gharafa Hall, with Kuwait, the defending champion, and Beirut at 16:00 Qatar time, followed by Al-Ahly of Egypt and Salé of Morocco at 18:30. The four Knights have qualified for this round after three of them topped their group in the preliminary round, Kuwait in the first group. Salé was in third, Beirut was in fourth, while Al-Ahly finished second in the same group. Then they continued their journey successfully in the round of 16 and the quarter-finals, bringing three of them who had occupied first places in the previous edition in Kuwait last year to be qualified; Kuwait team, which won the title for the first time, then Al-Ahly, runner-up, and Beirut, third in the standings, were joined by Salé, who returned strongly after an absence of six years from the limelight, and his last achievement was in 2017 in Morocco, when he finished second after the Lebanese Homenetmen. The expectations remain difficult in this round, compared to the level presented by the teams. The four so far, and secondly, due to the presence of an elite group of local players and foreign professionals.
The Technical Committee and the General Secretariat of the Arab Federation held a meeting at the Championship Hotel after the end of the quarter-finals, during which they discussed the arrangements for the final rounds and the agenda for next year’s tournaments, as the General Secretariat will later determine those tournaments and the countries wishing to host them.
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