The Lebanese Basketball Federation and Cedar’s Food America signed a sponsorship deal with the Lebanese men’s team on Wednesday afternoon at the Lyqaa Center (Al Rabwa).

The signing of the contract took place during a press conference attended by AFC First Vice President, President of the Lebanese Basketball Association Akram Chalabi, owner of the sponsorship company Charles Khanna, Vice President of the Federation Sami Nasser, General Secretary Charbel Michel Rizk, members of the Federation of Accountants Hisham Jaradi, Patrick Lahoud, Eli Khalil and Mayor of Carhi (Jezzine District), Jean Nakhleh and members of the press and media.

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At the beginning, Halabi spoke and said: “I welcome those present to announce the new sponsorship of the Lebanese national team through Cedars Food America for its owner Charles Hanna, who has accompanied the success of the Lebanese national team from the United States of America and harbors nostalgia, love and national spirit for his country Lebanon, Charles Khanna is a model for the Lebanese who live in and follow the diaspora countries. For the first time in the history of Lebanese basketball, 3 teams have qualified for the World Cup Cup Finals, namely men’s teams, under 18 and under 16 teams. Our goal is to achieve a good result in the World Cup final next year. The federation needs support and I would like to once again thank Charles Hanna for his step in supporting the Lebanese national team and we are proud of this cooperation. Our journey is long, with the hope that the results will meet our ambitions.

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For his part, Charles Khanna said: “I thank the president of the Basketball Association, Akram Chalabi, for his words, and the Lebanese national team deserves all the support. The Lebanese national team players are champions in every sense of the word. I have followed the Lebanese team’s World Cup qualifiers with interest and we hope that the team will continue their excellent performance in their qualifying and World Cup finals. Many businessmen should support the Basketball Association and the national team. , I would like to thank the president and members of the federation for agreeing to this sponsorship, which means a lot to me because I support my country Lebanon ”(to the applause of the audience).

Chalabi then presented Hanna with the national team jersey that bears his name.