African Sports Monthly JUNE 2019 ISSUE I Vol 2 | Page 17

ISSUE I • VOL2 • JUNE 2019
FEATURE
Coach Ahmad Sasso's Interview Cont'd
ASM: Thank you for taking
your time out to talk to us at
African Sports Monthly
Magazine Mr. Ahmad Sasso
and we wish you the best in
your continued endeavor to
give the young a chance in
experiencing the joys of the
sport of soccer.
Ahmad Sasso: Thank you for the time and everything

you do. Your continued support and positive input for
all sports is appreciated. God bless
The Caster Semenya Conundrum
Basketball Africa League
The NBA Commissioner Adam
Silver surrounded by Africa’s
basketball royalty and
influencers made a spectacular
announcement during the NBA
All-Star weekend this year
(2019), to launch its first
overseas extension League
called the Basketball Africa
League in Partnership with
FIBA.
The Initial start date was
in the Month of January but
recently with the announcement of a Commissioner of
the league in Amadou Gallo Fall the NBA Africa
President the Launch date of the league has been shifted
to March of 2020. African Sports Monthly will be
examining the impact of the NBA’s Africa League before
play gets underway next year.
FOCUSED, PURPOSEFUL &
DRIVEN, AHOURE EXUDES
A PASSION TO GIVE BACK
Inspired by her Mom to give back at a very early stage in life,
Ivorian global Sprint Star Murielle Ahoure a few months back
took a trip with UNICEF to her native Ivory Coast and more
recently went back as host and ambassador of the Ivorian
Athletics Federation to the African Under 20 Athletics
Championship hosted in Abidjan by the Confederation of African
Athletics.
In both instances and throughout her career as a global Track
Star what has been very evident and stood out about her
personality is that she exudes a passion coupled with
her humility that’s unlike any global sports star out there.
Ahoure, one can say is that accidental superstar who did not
even know she was that much of a talented athlete till the age of
17 at High School in the USA where she did discover that she
could run very fast. She would go on to pursue her new found
passion at George Mason University in Virginia and the
University of Miami in Florida before she blew up into a global
sensation and became a force on the Track as a speedster for the
Ivory Coast.
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The early going of the 2019
Track & Field Season has been
filled with a lot of controversies
involving the IAAF and South
African Athlete Caster Semenya
over her natural born condition
and its been nothing short of a
roller coaster as several court
decisions against and for
has been issued after Semenya
the IAAF came down with a
ruling earlier in the year requiring the athlete to
medicate and reduce her levels of testosterone due to
the fact that she was born with an androgynous
condition. The latest Court Decision was handed down
by the Swiss Federal Courts striking down the
decision of the Swiss based Court of Arbitration for
Sports that had initially sided with the IAAF over the
matter barring Semenya from competing without
medicating to reduce her testosterone levels. African
Sports Monthly will be taking a very critical look at this
issue in our next edition.