FIBA 警告するs of possible disciplinary 活動／戦闘 against Nigeria
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) - Basketball's world 治める／統治するing 団体／死体 確認するd Thursday that Nigeria has 孤立した its team from the women's World Cup and 警告するd of "可能性のある disciplinary 対策" against the country because of 政府 干渉，妨害.
Nigeria's 政府 発表するd last month that it was 身を引くing all its basketball teams from international 競争s for two years while it 完全に 再編するs the sport. The sports 省 said the Nigerian Basketball 連合 would be 解散させるd and the 決定／判定勝ち（する） to 身を引く from international 競争s was 認可するd by Nigerian 大統領 Muhammadu Buhari.
FIBA said it had since been in communication with the Nigerian Basketball 連合 in an 成果／努力 to keep the Nigeria team in the women's World Cup in Australia in September and October, but that didn't work.
"にもかかわらず FIBA´s request, it has become （疑いを）晴らす that against the circumstances created by the 政府´s 決定／判定勝ち（する）, the NBBF is unable to 確認する its 参加 in the FIBA Women´s Basketball World Cup 2022," FIBA said.
Nigeria´s women are the 統治するing African 支持する／優勝者s and have won the 大陸の 肩書を与える five times. FIBA said Mali will 取って代わる Nigeria at the World Cup.
FIBA also said it would 発表する "any 可能性のある disciplinary 対策 in 予定 course" regarding Nigeria. The world 団体／死体 had 以前 警告するd Nigeria that 身を引くing its teams might have consequences that last "井戸／弁護士席 past" the two-year period.
FILE - Nigeria players walk off the 法廷，裁判所 after their loss in the women's basketball 予選 一連の会議、交渉／完成する game against Japan at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Aug. 2, 2021, in Saitama, Japan. FIBA-Nigeria, basketball's world 治める／統治するing 団体／死体, 確認するd Thursday, June 2, 2022, that Nigeria has 孤立した its team from the women's World Cup and 警告するd of "可能性のある disciplinary 対策" against the country because of 政府 干渉，妨害. Nigeria's 政府 発表するd last month that it was 身を引くing all its basketball teams from international 競争s for two years while it 完全に 再編するs the sport. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, Fil e)
FIBA, like most sports 団体／死体s, doesn't 許す 政府s to 干渉する in the running of 国家の 連合s and could 答える／応じる by banning the country from all international basketball events.
The Nigerian women's team 同意しないd 公然と with the 決定／判定勝ち（する） to 身を引く from 競争s. Players said in a 声明 that the move by their 政府 is "taking away all our 未来 競争s, 業績／成就s and goals to elevate, 奮起させる, and make Nigeria proud."
It's also 始める，決める to 影響する／感情 the men's team, which is 現在／一般に 伴う／関わるd in qualifying for the 2023 World Cup.
Nigeria, which is coached by Golden 明言する／公表する 軍人s assistant マイク Brown, sits 最高の，を越す of its qualifying group ahead of the 再開 of games in July. If Nigeria doesn't play at next year's World Cup, it won't qualify for the 2024 Olympics in Paris.
The problems in Nigerian basketball 中心 on a leadership tussle at the 国家の 連合, which elected two different 大統領，／社長s in 平行の 選挙s in January. The 政府 wants to 任命する an 暫定的な 委員会 to run the NBBF until its 問題／発行するs are 解決するd, but has also 発表するd its 意向 to "改造する" all areas of Nigerian basketball, 含むing the 国内の league.
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AP writer Chinedu Asadu in Lagos, Nigeria 与える／捧げるd.
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