Afghanistan national basketball team
Afghanistan 
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| FIBA ranking | T-94 
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| Joined FIBA | 1968 | ||
| FIBA zone | FIBA Asia | ||
| National federation | National Basketball Association of Afghanistan (NBAA) | ||
| Coach | Mamo Rafiq | ||
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| Appearances | None | ||
| FIBA World Cup | |||
| Appearances | None | ||
| Asian Championship | |||
| Appearances | None | ||
| South Asian Games | |||
| Appearances | 1 | ||
| Medals |
 Gold: 2010
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The Afghanistan national basketball team is the basketball side that represents Afghanistan in international competitions.
The gold medal at the 2010 South Asian Games was the first ever gold medal of any Afghan sports team in the history of the country.
Basketball was first played in Afghanistan in 1936. In 1966, the Afghanistan National Olympic Committee (ANOC) founded the first national basketball team after receiving challenges from India and Pakistan. Tom Gouttierre, an American Peace Corps volunteer and coach of the team at Habibia High School, became the first coach. Using detailed, confidential instructions from John Wooden, the Afghan team became the only other to run the famous UCLA zone press.
Although the international games were canceled, in 1969 Gouttierre returned on a Fulbright Fellowship and again became the Habibia coach, and in 1970 Bill Bradley of the New York Knicks tutored the team while visiting the country. That year China challenged the ANOC. Because of the lack of preparation time, Gouttierre decided that current and former Habibia players were the best choice for a second Afghan national team. Using the zone press, it defeated a much larger Chinese team in Parwan Province in the Afghan team's first international victory.
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