On the sidelines of a friendly match against KACM’s second team, part of a cultural and sporting visit to Morocco, the members of the American university’s basketball team stressed the importance of this “singular” experience, which enables them to discover the many facets of Morocco’s thousand-year-old culture.
This visit is an exceptional and highly enriching cultural and educational experience for the group, Marlon Sears, the team’s coach, told MAP and its news channel (M24), expressing his admiration for the diversity and richness of Moroccan culture, particularly its colorful and flavorful gastronomy.
Sears also expressed his satisfaction at the development and promotion of basketball in Morocco, thanks to the efforts of all concerned, especially the clubs, which are making commendable efforts to encourage and encourage young people to take up the sports and become its standard-bearers.
For his part, the captain of the American team, Mohamed Alausa, expressed his delight at this wonderful experience full of human encounters with a very welcoming people, affirming that Morocco has a lot to offer.
With regard to the basketball’s development in the Kingdom, he stressed that this discipline is increasingly practised in Morocco, a country with major sports infrastructures and a passionate youth.
A view shared by his team-mate Bobby Sommers, who said he was impressed by this “singular” experience, which offered them the opportunity to discover a rich tangible and intangible heritage, and to meet young Moroccans with whom they share a passion for basketball.
During the visit, which was part of the American university’s and its students’ efforts to open up to the Kingdom’s millennia-old culture and civilization, the Amherst University basketball team played several friendly matches with local teams.
