Jordan and Canary Islands
Dates: June 14 - July 1
This team will be a very high level competing team tour that will play against professional and Olympic-level players/teams, conducting youth basketball clinics as well. Tour begins with training camp in Xenia, OH (AIA’s World Headquarters). Then team launch heads to Jordan (Middle East) where AIA has pair of exhibition games with Jordan’s senior men’s national team before they head to their Olympic qualifying tournament in Venezuela. Following this, team heads back west to Gran Canaria, a Spanish island off the west coast of Africa/Morocco. There we will engage in ministry through 4 games in Europe’s best pro summer league as well as conduct coaching/youth clinics. The Canary Islands are the ‘Hawaii of Europe and Africa’ and also site of the 2014 FIBA Senior Men’s World Championship. Both sites represent pioneering efforts as these are AIA’s first basketball visits to these locations. We pray that they will indeed be catalytic and fruitful in every way! Morris Michalski, AIA staff member, will be directing this tour. "Coach Mo" can be reached at morris.michalski@athletesinaction.org.