Elizabeth Folake Cambage who is popularly hailed as Liz Cambage has revealed that there is an ongoing discussion between her camp and Nigeria’s basketball representatives for her to switch from the Australian Women basketball team to D’Tigress.
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Controversy has courted the towering centre since her international debut in 2008 and Opals head coach Sandy Brondello said there will now be no more second chances for her in the Australian Team.
The Australian Opals crashed out of the Tokyo Olympics in the quarter finals after a bitter divide opened between the players and Cambage over alleged racist remarks she made against Nigerian players in a practice match.
In a interview with Bleachers Report Taylor Rooks, Liz Cambage says she’s in talks to leave the Australian team to represent Nigeria in the Olympics while rebuffing claims of racial abuse.
She maintains she did not use a racial slur towards the Nigerian team during a scrimmage ahead of the 2021 Tokyo Olympics.
Cambage left the national program in disgrace ahead of the Tokyo Olympics following an incident where she allegedly called Nigerian players ‘monkeys’ and told them to ‘go back to your third world country’.
Fellow Opal Ezi Magbegor is of Nigerian descent and Cambage’s alleged comments during the 2021 practice match fractured her relationship with teammates with many calling for her not to be involved with the Nigeria team after her ‘wild behavior’.
The Australian professional basketball player who plies her trade for the Maccabi Bnot Ashdod of the Israeli Female Basketball Premier League currently holds the WNBA single-game scoring record with her 53-point performance against the New York Liberty on 17 July 2018.
However, the D’Tigress who recently recorded a 4-peat Afrobasket milestone will potentially see a new player who has been subject of series of controversies in the squad if chosen by Coach Rena for the upcoming 2024 Paris Olympics.
