{"id":306,"date":"2021-02-17T11:14:13","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T10:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fbbsburkina.com\/?p=306"},"modified":"2021-02-17T11:14:15","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T10:14:15","slug":"baseball5-webinar-staged-to-grow-the-game-in-west-african-nation-burkina-faso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fbbsburkina.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/17\/baseball5-webinar-staged-to-grow-the-game-in-west-african-nation-burkina-faso\/","title":{"rendered":"Baseball5 webinar staged to grow the game in West African nation Burkina Faso"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The development activity was organised by the African Baseball &amp; Softball Association, in collaboration with the WBSC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the inclusion of Baseball5 at the next Youth Olympic Games &#8212; which will take place in Dakar in 2026 &#8212; and the announcement of the WBSC Baseball5 international calendar, the teaching and practice of the five-on-five urban discipline that requires only a ball is spreading quickly on the African continent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The African Baseball &amp; Softball Association\u00a0(ABSA), in collaboration with the WBSC, organised a Baseball5 webinar for coaches and game officials in Burkina Faso on 7 February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In all, 33 participants belonging to the Burkina Faso Baseball and Softball Federation\u00a0(FBBS,\u00a0<em>F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Burkinab\u00e8 de Baseball et Softball<\/em>)\u00a0attended the online course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Federation Focus: \ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddeb Burkina Faso aiming for new stadium \ud83c\udfdf\ufe0f and Africa&#39;s first-ever pro baseball league<br><br> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/k9FmVeEj3G\">https:\/\/t.co\/k9FmVeEj3G<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/globalgame?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#globalgame<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/globalsport?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#globalsport<\/a> \ud83c\udf0d<\/p>&mdash; WBSC \u26be\ud83e\udd4e (@WBSC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WBSC\/status\/1331559029806669830?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 25, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year, during an interview with WBSC for the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbsc.org\/news\/federation-focus-burkina-faso-aiming-for-new-stadium-and-africas-first-ever-pro-baseball-league\"><strong>November 2020 edition of Federation Focus<\/strong><\/a><strong>,&nbsp;<\/strong>the FBBS President, Ibrahima Sibore, said: \u00ab\u00a0We do appreciate this new discipline [of Baseball5]. 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