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Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Maccabi Rishon LeZion makes 4th foreign signing of the summer with Nigerian Dinma Odiakosa joining the club

Basketball:
Dinma Odiakosa (ibba)
Maccabi Rishon LeZion have added yet another foreign player to their squad for the upcoming season by signing 203cm Nigerian center Dinma Odiakosa on a 1 year deal. 31-year-old Odiakosa who played last season in the Israeli second division with Hod HaSharon also had a 5 year NCAA career playing for Illinois State between 2005 and 2010.
 "Odiakosa has already played in Israel, we saw him in a few games and we were very impressed with his physical ability", said Rishon LeZion manager Roni Bussani after the player signed his contract, "We hope and we believe that he will stick to our terms from a professional and social point of view".
Last season Odiakosa averaged 19.6 points and 11.7 rebounds per game and led Hod HaSharon to the Play-Off final where they were defeated by Ness Ziona.

In other news the Israel National Basketball Team finished a 3 game EuroBasket warm up series last night with a 77-59 loss to Belgium after beating Italy 78-74 on Sunday night and losing to Poland 75-72 on Saturday night. Omri Casspi led Israel in all 3 games scoring 18 against Belgium, 17 points in their win against Italy and 24 points against Poland. Israel start their EuroBasket Slovenia 2013 campaign on September 4th with a tough game against Great Britain which will be played in the city of Ljubljana. Next Wednesday (28th of August) Israel will host Georgia in its final warm up game.
 

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