Alliance Sports Casablanca (ASC) is a basketball club from

Casablanca Casablanca, also known in Arabic as Dar al-Bayda ( ar, الدَّار الْبَيْضَاء, al-Dār al-Bayḍāʾ, ; ber, ⴹⴹⴰⵕⵍⴱⵉⴹⴰ, ḍḍaṛlbiḍa, : "White House") is the largest city in Morocco and the country's econom ...

Morocco Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to ...

. It is the first club to win the league title in Morocco in 1957.

History

Alliance was founded in 1956 and won the champions title of Morocco in 1957, just after the country's independence and the creation of FRMBB (Royal Moroccan Federation of basketball) in 1956, even before the formal establishment of the discipline Championship in 1960. Under the leadership of its president Armand Abittan and his brother, coach Victor Abittan, the club subsequently completed the double by winning the title again in 1962 against Moghreb Athletic Rabat (MSR) and in 1963 against Club Athletic de Casablanca (CSC). As champions of Morocco, ASC wins the right to play against top European basketball clubs like

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in a friendly match, or

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in the

1962-63 FIBA European Champions Cup Year 196 ( CXCVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Dexter and Messalla (or, less frequently, year 949 '' Ab urbe condit ...

, and Antwerpse in the 1963-64 FIBA European Champions Cup. In 1968 the club disbanded. Among the players who have distinguished themselves in the colors of the ASC, the focus is Bentolila Jean Pierre Gerard Felices, Gilbert Achour, Michel Benoualid, the Martinique Henri Essis, the Americans Caston and Knight, and especially the Algerian Ahmed Benhadji Riad says "Moulay" becomes the captain of the Moroccan national team and participated in the Mexico Olympics in 1968.

Honours & achievements

Moroccan League * Winners (2): 1962, 1963

References

External links

* Basketball teams established in 1956 1956 establishments in Morocco Sport in Casablanca {{basketball-team-stub