The France U17 team wins the bronze medal at the Worlds!

If you’re planning on having a huge Summer League evening, the essentials of which we tease for you here, it’s because you’re both passionate and a little crazy. But if you have actually planned to slap it, we hope you enjoyed like us, as an aperitif, the very solid victory of the France U17 team against Lithuania, a victory which gives them a very deserved bronze medal. world.

We had to bounce back, bounce back after a damaging failure the day before against the eternal Spanish enemy. Undefeated before this defeat in the semis, Bernard Faure’s team had fished in areas of play that are usually advantageous to them (the rebound in particular), and this rebound was therefore scheduled for this evening at 6:30 p.m. local time, against a Lithuania never good to take and this at all ages, pay your pleonasmicius. Good news, however, since the Bleuets are present from the start in the intensity, it defends the iron on both sides and we are slowly heading towards a final score of around 29-26 for the winner, DM3 gang. The turning point? He will intervene from the first quarter with the successive returns of Ilane Fibleuil and Alexandre Sarr, true catalysts of the Blues with almost all the points of their team until half-time and a neat defensive presence. Noah Penda joins the party, a fiesta started by the giant Wilson Jacques at the start of the match and which Théo Pichard continued by releasing actions reminding us of Jason Williams’ handle (for the youngest it’s Kyrie Irving who shoots a little less but loves his teammates). At halftime the Blues made a small gap but be careful, the unfortunate memory of a catastrophic fourth quarter the day before is still in everyone’s mind, but this time our kids will not fall into the trap and maintain the rhythm throughout the second half, with the cherry posed at the end of the match by a bleeding Zaccharie Risacher in the last quarter.

Victory assured 66-58, and Bleuets who never really trembled as they were up to the event. Ladies and gentlemen, France is the third best nation in the world among the U17s, we let you guess the first two, but in any case, this bodes well for France in basketball. Young people here you are tanned, so you will be able to leave… to tan, because it is deserved.