Faux on France-Poland: Team Unity & Captain’s Leadership

Freddy Faith (coach of the French team, after The 83-76 victory against Poland ) : “First of all, I am happy for the players. They played a complicated match, the atmosphere was incredible. We stayed together, we played together and the team followed his captain, Guerschon (Yabusele) played a very good match. We can savor, but we continue. Yabusele? Bravo to him. To win this kind of match, we need the leaders to be very good. He scored a lot this evening (Tuesday), he played a very good match, but we also sacrificed themselves in this meeting, like Tim (Luwawu-Cabarrot) or Bilal (Coulibaly), who brought defensive. They made mistakes, but they did it for the team. They followed the captain, but with other things on the prosecution ”.

Guerschon Yabusele (captain of the Blues) : “It was good, it was important for us to show another attitude (compared to Sunday against Israel, editor’s note). We played with a lot of energy, we were concentrated the whole match and my teammates found me well. I was the guy who scored today, but the most important thing was victory. We will go back to the hotel, rest and prepare for the match against Iceland (Thursday at 2 p.m.). (…) We talked to the coach and with the players too, so that I was a little more involved. I know it’s important for me to be aggressive all the time, for the team and for me. I tried to find my rhythm, to give energy to the guys to move forward together. Tonight, it was in my sense, but this victory is the fruit of everyone’s work, those who did not score, those who have marked a lot … Everyone brought this evening, including in defense. It’s a team victory, that’s what we needed.

We had an Elijah of the Great Days.

Guerschon Yabusele

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Alex Sarr’s package, a headache? Inevitably … I’m not going to lie … He is the size, the scale, it helps us in defense, and he can move away … All his qualities, we lose a little, but we are three interiors (Jaiteh, Yabusele, Hoard). We will find a way. We saw Timothé (Luwawu-Cabarrot) to have minutes as a strong Oil. Other players can do it. We will see according to the opponent and the match-ups what will be the best situation. But necessarily, there, we will be ready for everything. We are not looking for an excuse. We will play with the players we have. Élie Okobo? We had an Elijah of the Great Days. He put very important shots, he put rhythm, he defended and tried to speak, to be sure to organize everything in the field, incredible passes … He was in a different role and he was incredible. His performance was very important to us. There are Elie, but also many other guys who have been very important to us. A victory like this, it connects us all. It’s really important. “

Interview at a press conference