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Basketball: Tony Parker lets loose on the fiasco of the French team
Published on September 4, 2023 at 10:35 p.m.
While the quarter-finals of the World Cup will take place on Tuesday, the France team is already eliminated. Exited from the group stage, the Blues offered us a very sad course, just one year from the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. An elimination that Tony Parker describes as “a real fiasco”.
The France team had other ambitions for this 2023 World Cup. While they appeared to be one of the favorites in the competition, the Blues were eliminated in the first round, after being beaten by the Canada and the Latvia. winner against the Ivory Coast Saturday (87-77), theFrench team finally finished in 18th place in this World Cup.
“It is true that it is very very disappointing”
“There, we really lived a fiasco”, declared Tony Parker, in Stephen Time on RMC. “I spoke about it for a long time with Nicolas Batum. We talked for an hour on the phone, and it’s true that it’s very, very disappointing. It’s not normal for such a team to lose in the first round. We have never seen Spain and the United States come out in the first round. And it’s a shame, because our generation has worked so hard to bring France back to a certain level, so that we are respected, by FIBA, the referees, other countries. It’s so hard to have respect. »
“It’s still a bit of a shame”
One year before the start of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, Tony Parker believes that theFrench team must make changes, without doing anything: “Latvia had a great game, they shot crazy, but it’s not normal, it’s still a bit of a shame. (…) They will have big choices to make. If you bring back big players like Joel Embiid, Victor (Wembanyama), it has to be complementary with the rest, because it could mean the departure of certain executives, which can make headlines. We need to improve the team, we need changes, but it’s not going to be easy. »
2023-09-04 20:35:00
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