Basketball: Hamd Fathi plays for a Spanish Liga CB Estudiantes

CAIRO – 2 June 2017: Egypt’s international basketball player Hamad Fathi is currently having a trial week with the Madrid-based CB Estudiantes before officially joining the squad, Spanish-led newspaper AS reported Thursday.

The 25-year-old basketballer would become the tallest player in the club’s history. Fathi is measured at 2.29 meters high and 2.44-meters-long wingspan, surpassing the Czech Ondrej Balvin whose wingspan is measured at 2.17 cm long, the AS report added.

Fathi participated with the Egyptian basketball senior men’s team in the 2015 African Games in Congo, where the Pharos team prevailed as gold earners.