Basketball Scam to get foreign players to South Africa

Eurobasket usually stays away from similar cases trying to focus on strictly basketball (games, rosters, etc.) coverage. However we decided to post a warning for the scam going on, especially that it already affected some players.

So far players, who own a profile on chancesforallsports.com have been contacted by supposedly agents about playing for a team. The method is always the same. The supposedly agent tells the player about a great offer in Australia, offering 5000$ a month plus benefits. Questions about the team, what league they play in or further information, are ignored. As next step, the player is told that the team in Australia completed their roster, but that there would be a team in South Africa, which is looking for a new player, only issue - the player is asked to pay his own flight ticket, but would be reimbursed later.
The man, who acts as agent, is either named Richard Marante and uses the email-address topfameoverseabasketball7@gmail.com, or Anold Church, using the email-address anoldchurch@yahoo.co.uk. The name of the African team is Kwazulu Marlins in Durban South Africa, with the team email-address: kwazulumarlinsbasketballteam@gmail.com and the name Myles Delport is used as contact person for this team.

Victor Shakineza, who is the creator of the website mybasketball.co.za, did some research in those cases and contacted Myles Delport personally, who clarified that he had nothing to do with the emails sent out, and also confirmed that there hasnt been a league in South Africa for several years. It is not sure, if Richard Marante and Anold Church are the actual names of agents or if they are just other victims in this scam.

Players should watch out for offers like this, and look out for red flags such as paying for your own transportation, no names or information on the team that is looking for a player, and also the requirements of the agents as i.e. Anold Church requested to receive 20% of the players salary, instead of 10% as normally. He also signed one email with the name Allen instead of Anold.
Furthermore, the players were aware of the fact that the last roster of the team on afribasket.com is from the season 2006/07, and when they asked the supposedly agent about this, the answer was afribasket.com wouldnt be up to date. There is always a way to find out the truth, contact the actual writer for this section of eurobasket.com and all eurobasket- co-workers will be glad to assist you with the information you need.

If you are interested in more information about this scam, you can read more details about one potential victim under http://mybasketball.co.za/2010/09/basketball-scam-to-get-foreign-players-to-south-africa/

Champions Club Zone-3: Royal Hoopers end ABC invicibility

Nigeria DStv league runner-up Royal Hoopers basketball club Thursday end the invicibility of Abidjan Basket Club, ABC with a 60-44 points victory in highly defensive game.

The Game-7 pairing between both sides came at a time both teams were enjoying excellent run in the FIBA Africa Champions Club Zone-3 Qualifiers with odd favouring the Ivories since they are not new on the African stage but the Nigerian debutant put pressure on the Abidjan-based ABC opening a ten points lead in the first quarter of 16-06 points.

Effort by ABC to fight back in the second quarter was rebuffed by the Hoopers who are determined to make it to the final round of the continent biggest club championship slated for Cotonou, Benin Republic between December 10-19, 2010, though Royal Hoopers lost the second quarter 12-13 points but they were able to maintain a nine points lead of 28-19 at half-time.

The Hoopers players who were pleased with their performance against ABC sustain the pressure winning the third quarter by 21-14 point and drew level with their opponent by 11-11 in the fourth quarter for a final score-line of 60-44 points to move to the second position behind Kano Pillars.