Ineza Sifa

"I wanted to be a basketball player. Honestly, there is no specific reason to why I chose basketball, it just seemed like a really cool and clean game to me. I wouldn’t say it was always my dream because I barely knew it in my young age"

"We just came in ready. We lost to Angola and it’s not because they were better than us, but we made a lot of mistakes and that’s like, as Coach said, I just learned from my mistakes, and last game I had 8 turnovers, That’s a lot for a guard. I’m not supposed to have 8 turnovers. So, I learned from it and now I got to do the best for the team and just get a win one minute at a time."

"People are going to talk regardless, but we just learn to block the haters. We just don’t let that energy affect us. And that’s what I said like nobody believed in this. They say, we qualified because we’re the host team and really we just know we’re the underdogs and we got to come out here and just prove people wrong."