Most of the players who have qualified France for the Euro, which begins this Thursday, will not play it. They share their feelings.
It’s a situation specific to basketball, where football and rugby ensure that the best internationals are present for their country. The France team, like the other nations, does not have its NBA players between October and June, because they are retained by their clubs across the Atlantic. It is therefore without Rudy Gobert, Evan Fournier and others that the Blues qualified for the Euro, which begins this Thursday with a France-Germany (8:30 p.m.). “It is remarkable because, for a lot of players, they will not go to the Olympic Games and probably not to the European championship either”, congratulated coach Vincent Collet in February 2021. How do these players, all referenced in France and sometimes beyond, live this shadow role? Four of them engaged in Figaro.
From the outset, Yakuba Ouattara (17 selections), rear of AS Monaco, underlines: “During windows, you already know what to expect. You know that places are very very limited, that there are already…
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