The Preparation Begins: Laurent Foirest Takes the Helm for the Betclic Elite Season of the Metropolitans 92

The preparation of the Betclic Elite season of the Metropolitans 92 starts this Wednesday. The opportunity for the new coach Laurent Foirest to come back to his arrival at Boulogne-Levallois.

After eight seasons coaching Quimper in NM1 then in Pro B, Laurent Foirest will experience his first experience in Betclic Elite. Vincent Collet’s assistant in the France team succeeds the latter at Mets 92 and therefore misses the World Cup with the Blues. A heartbreak that he accepted to experience a new challenge at the top of French basketball.

Arrived in the 2023 playoffs finalist club – but threatened to disappear this summer – in July, he carried out this Wednesday August 16 the first training with his new group. At the microphone of Parisianhe reconsidered his decision to join the Metropolitans 92 project and temporarily leave the Blues aside for the 2023 campaign.

“Coaching a Betclic Elite club is an opportunity that doesn’t come along every day. I was aware that it should not be missed. What tipped the decision was when Vincent (Collet, the coach of the Blues) assured me that he would not replace me and that he was counting on me for the Paris Olympics in 2024. is an important meeting for me, I have been in the A staff since 2017 and since 2015 with the France A team. For me, the Paris Olympics are a kind of accomplishment. It would have been very hard not to do them. Vincent told me to accept the club’s proposal, that it was a good thing for me and that I should not miss this opportunity. Discovering the Pro A was going to allow me to continue to progress. »

With a workforce about to be finalized, Laurent Foirest thus takes charge of a club which has experienced a crazy and unprecedented season in the history of French basketball. Obviously, expectations will not be the same after the departures of the phenomena Victor Wembanyama and Bilal Coulibaly.

“The situation is no longer the same. The budget is no longer the same (it has been reduced by two and is announced at around 5 million euros), the club almost disappeared and I think the public is aware that Victor is no longer there. We will try to seduce through our collective, through play… If I was a buzzard, they wouldn’t have asked me to come. I think there is not much to lose by taking up the challenge. Even for the club, there is everything to gain. If we succeed, they will see that they were right to leave. The fact of not playing in the European Cup is also a handicap for recruitment. If we had had an invitation, the team would already be made up. There are players who refused for this or other reasons. »

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2023-08-16 17:31:00
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