Victor Azalbert: How a Classified Ad Launched His Football Career

Victor Wembanyama bows today to his calculations. Unimaginable just eight months ago when his analyzes tried to shed light on the game of a Dax team fighting to stay in Pro D 2. A leap at the speed of light between two very foreign universes. The improbable passage from a rough and anonymous world to another populated by giant stars shining all the spotlights on them. From Landes to Texas, from Dax to San Antonio, from rugby to the NBA, Victor Azalbert changed galaxies, quite surprised himself.

“Nothing was planned, I didn’t think about changing sports and even less about finding myself in the United States in the NBA,” he told the newspaper Sud-Ouest. If this sudden turn in the destiny of this young man of 27 is full of winks – same first name and same place of birth as Wembanyama in Chesnay in the Yvelines – it is not the wave of a magic wand.

Aiko Tanaka

Aiko Tanaka is a combat sports journalist and general sports reporter at Archysport. A former competitive judoka who represented Japan at the Asian Games, Aiko brings firsthand athletic experience to her coverage of judo, martial arts, and Olympic sports. Beyond combat sports, Aiko covers breaking sports news, major international events, and the stories that cut across disciplines — from doping scandals to governance issues to the business side of global sport. She is passionate about elevating the profile of underrepresented sports and athletes.

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