Alpha Bangura

Who is Alpha Bangura?

Alpha Bangura is an Sierra Leone basketball player who competed as a member of the Libya national basketball team at the FIBA Africa Championship 2009 under the name Alfath Mohamed Belgasem and playing professionally for Anibal Zahle of the Lebanese Basketball League. He recently played for the Air21 Express of the Philippine Basketball Association as an import.

'Alpha Bangura played NCAA basketball at St. John's University for two years after starting his career at Monmouth University. Following his college career, Bangura has played professional basketball in the United States with the CBA and USBL and overseas in Portugal, Israel, Spain, Japan, Puerto Rico, Lebanon, Kuwait, Venezuela, and recently in the Philippines for the Air21 Express. In 2008-09, Bangura spent most of the year with the Rio Grande Valley Vipers of the D-League, averaging 18.9 points per game over 26 games before being traded to the Bakersfield Jam for the last nine games of the season. In 2010 he signed with Sporting Al Riyadi Beirut playing his first match in the league against runner ups Al Mouttahed Tripoli. He signed for Anibal Zahle in the Lebanese Basketball League for the 2010–11 season.