D'Tigress Target Is To Be Among Top 10 In The World - Akhator

D'Tigress Target Is To Be Among Top 10 In The World - Akhator

By Sampson Adedeji

Nigeria's D'Tigress player Evelyn Akhator has stated playing at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic has been her main target since she started playing for the National team.

She further said that the team target is to be among top ten of the women basketball worldwide.

"Who doesn’t want to go to the Olympics? Hearing the word “Olympics” itself was a motivation for us to fight. We were not ready to wait another four years before earning another spot to qualify for the Olympics while the ticket was right in our faces so we had to do what we can to grab it.”

“I always believe I would get to the Olympics from the day I started playing for the national team and I am glad it all came to pass. Going to Tokyo has always been my dream considering the fact that I watch lots of Japanese movies and I am excited I will be going there next year by God’s grace.”

“I see Nigeria getting to the top and becoming a Top 10 country in basketball. Nobody would have thought we would be a Top 20 team and now we are number 14 in the world. I only pray that we all achieve that dream of being top of the best very soon.”

“It is really important especially the fact that basketball is not a popular sport in Nigeria as compared to Senegal. It was really important for Nigeria to be on the map again and be known worldwide. Now, teams are scared whenever they hear Nigeria women’s basketball team," she told FIBA Basketball