The Philippines’ final presentation for the hosting bid is perhaps one of the two most interesting sporting events being monitored by basketball fans hereabouts. This time the number of participating nations has been increased to 32, compared to 24 of the previous 2014 edition of the World Cup hosted by Spain.
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FIBA president Horacio Muratore of Argentina took out China’s name from a large envelope given by his predecessor Yvan Mainini of France on stage in a conference room where hours earlier, both bidders delivered audio-visual presentations to promote their countries. We believe that we can make the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup a complete success because of China’s economic stability, strong financial guarantee and the government’s complete support.
FIBA President confirmed the decision when he pulled ‘s name from an envelope during a presentation ceremony in the Japanese capital of.
While the consensus was the Philippines had a more impressive audio-visual presentation, FIBA put a lot of weight behind China’s offer of eight existing venues in different cities and the promise of mobilizing a massive market of 1.3 billion people.
The 2019 FIBA World Cup will incorporate more host cities than ever, FIBA said, with Beijing, Dongguan, Foshan, Guangzhou, Nanjing, Shenzhen, Suzhou and Wuhan all set to host games. Joining him are celebrities Manny Pacquiao, boxing’s only eight-division world champion and head coach of Kia Carnival of the Philippine basketball Association (PBA) and Lou Diamond Philips, a popular Filipino-American Hollywood actor.
It will be the first World Cup played under FIBA’s new qualifying process, which begins in November 2017 and last 18 months.
The official 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup Host Announcement live stream could be seen in the official Youtube page of FIBA and could also be accessed via an embedded link below.
The Philippines will be bannered by naturalized center Andray Blatche, who just arrived in the country.
“We have two great nations fighting for this”, Baumann said. Everyday for one year, from the time it won the hosting the country’s name wass carried in all media outfit all over the world describing how efficient are its people in organizing event of such magnitude.
Reyes and Alapag had made their case much earlier.
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“That’s what I want FIBA to experience”, Alapag said.
