Fans give their support to Belize National Basketball Team
The national basketball team’s next stop is Santo Domingo. They leave Saturday morning with good support from fans who have full faith in the talented players. We spoke to some supporters at last night’s games who had well wishes and advice to offer the players as they leave for the start of the Centro Basket Tournament that kicks off on Monday.
Team Belize Supporter #1
“I want tell di Belize team dat dehn have wah good offensive team but dehn need fi work pan dehn defense a little more.”
Marleni Cuellar
“Weh you want happen dah DR?”
Team Belize Supporter #1
“I want Belize to win.”
Team Belize Supporter #2
“Of course I’d ah want Belize win; encouragement from di Belizeans to di bone. Well Belizean boys we would like you to win. Bring back di goal.”
Team Belize Supporter #3
“We’d like to wish the Belize National Team all the best in Santo Domingo. I think tonight’s game is certainly sharp tonight and the game is pretty good seeing that Venezuela is the twenty-third rank team. And certainly I think they’re going to certainly do well in Santo Domingo. So we look forward and again wish them all the best and good luck.”
Team Belize Supporter #4
“I believe that they have the ability, especially to get over Venezuela. If you just go to basic Belizean basketball, basic thing guys box out. The most crucial thing, box out and bring to the attention ah every referee when unu deh out yanda, di three second play. Dat mi kill we inna di last games weh we mi play and I would ah really want mek wi coaches pay attention to bring to di attention ah di referees di three second ball. Once we noh do dat, we’ll be good.”
Team Belize Supporter #5
“We just want to wish our team the best when they go out there. We are rooting behind them and we hope that they are very successful and bring back the goal to Belize.”
Team Belize Supporter #6 and #7 Together
“We love di whole Belize Team but we want know why Marlon Garnett noh deh out yah. Go team Belize.”
Team Belize Supporter #8
“Good luck to Belize team!”
Team Belize Supporter #9
“Go Belize. Belize dah numba one noh care weh pah dehn go or weh pah dehn deh. Go Belize! Yey!”
Team Belize Supporter #10
“Go Team Belize.”
Team Belize Supporter #11
“I’m not a big sports man but when it comes to supporting our Belizean local people, our local players of course I am hundred percent behind our team and whatever it takes we put it behind them.”
Marleni Cuellar
“So weh you wah seh to di boys as they head off to the Dominican Republic?”
Team Belize Supporter #11
“Do your best, play your hearts out and of course represent Belize well.”
Team Belize Supporter #12
“Represent Belize and make us all proud. The fact that they’re putting out a good effort tonight, I think that they will be successful over there. So Go Belize!.”
Team Belize Supporter #13
“They should have won. Belize, they are really, really good.”
Marleni Cuellar
“We’re gonna be playing Mexico in Dominican Republic. How do you think that’s gonna go?”
Team Belize Supporter #13
“that’s going to be very draw; both of them are really good. But actually I think Belize is really good.”
Team Belize Supporter #14
“Do di best cause we have some good players and thing so just do unu best mein.”
Team Belize Supporter #15
“Go Belize and go hard Belize. Team Belize no mess up; go hard! No do weh di politician do weh got we di sweat fi nothing. Go hard Belize. Go hard Team Belize.”
Team Belize Supporter #16
“We send di best out deh and team Belize, go Belize. Support to di fullest. We noh wah deh dah DR but we represent from yah and I know Channel Five wah bring it live.”
Team Belize Supporter #17
“Keep playing the best ball cause we have the most athletic team and as long as we play together as wah team I noh si nobody weh could beat we really.”
Team Belize Supporter #18
“Well, we wish them the best of luck and defense all the way.”
Team Belize Supporter #19
“play hard, try and win for us and the whole of Belize is behind them. The whole country is rooting for them.”
Team Belize Supporter #20
“It’s going to be won on the defensive end. Yoh can’t win without di ball. Yeah man.”
As we said earlier, the team’s first competitive game will be against Trinidad on Monday and you can catch all the action live right here on Channel Five.
