Five years after retiring, Boris Diaw will sign his return to the courts. At 41, the former captain of the France team (from 2002 to 2018, captain from 2006) decided to challenge himself: win the Landes Cup with the Biscarrosse club, which plays at the third level. departmental. According to the Sud-Ouest newspaper, the 2013 European champion has taken over a license to live this dream with a dozen friends, all ex-basketball players and from the Landes.
“It’s the Holy Grail for a Landais”
Born in the Paris region, Boris Diaw spent part of his childhood in Mont-de-Marsan, the Landes prefecture. “The “Landes World Cup” has always meant something to me. I had the opportunity to attend the finals several times in the arenas of Pomarez, he confides in the columns of the daily newspaper. I have always coveted this title, even if I had the chance to have others in my career (he was crowned NBA champion in 2014). It’s the Holy Grail for a Landais and, basically, I’m still a Landais! »
The general manager of the France team will be able to devote himself to this new objective on his return from Indonesia, where the Blues have yet to play a World Cup classification match on Saturday against Côte d’Ivoire.
