The last trip, the last training, the last shooting, the last warm-up, the last presentation… The list of all these last things which punctuated the season of the BCS will end to take place, this Friday, at the end of the meeting face in Aix-Maurienne (15e ).
“Of course we will have a twinge of heart, it is always the case during a last game for a group. There are those who stay, those who leave, loose Stéphane Eberlin. This is why I would really like to finish well ”.
It is therefore for Jason Bach and his partners to take care of their exit, even if the density of the calendar is starting to seriously weigh on the organizations.
“With the sequence of matches, we can not prepare much, we just had a training between the meeting of Denain, Tuesday, and Aix-Maurienne, warns the Alsatian technician. But we want to end with a victory that would allow us to finish with a record of 16 wins for 18 losses. It would be the best record of the BCS in Pro B ”.
Show character
Even if they will evolve once again in a reduced workforce, the Souffelois will not miss the opportunity to win on their floor of the Seven Arpents.
“Once the maintenance was assured, they could have let go but this is not the case, appreciates the coach of the BCS. At Souffel, we have always had guys with character who never let go, it is perhaps even more true this season. We saw him in Denain on Tuesday, we stayed in contact for a very long time. Or against Nancy, we managed to reverse the game to win in overtime. “
On the first leg, in Aix-les-Bains, against Kadri Moendadze and his ASMB teammates, Timothé Vergiat had particularly distinguished himself. The Alsatian leader had established his career points record (26) and led his team to victory (77-83). A performance that he will have to approach, or even repeat this Friday, in order to lead his partners in his wake, one last time.
A final victory for a last ovation
“It’s not a real end, it’s the end of an era but we are still in continuity, relativizes Stéphane Eberlin, who will take the reins of the new team born from the merger of Souffel and Gries. It is the end of one cycle but the beginning of another. “
And for his final talk? “I’ll tell the guys to have fun, I’ve been telling them that for three matches. And to go into battle to offer this victory to our public, who have not often had the opportunity to see us play this season. »A final victory for a final ovation.
basketball / Pro B – The BCS gives up its rights
It is one of the recent events in the Alsatian sports microcosm. The BCGO and the BCS, the two Lower Rhine Pro B clubs, have chosen to join forces through a merger which will evolve at the second level of the hexagonal hierarchy under the surname of ASA (Alliance Sport Alsace) .
This development is the business of the championship clubs since only one descent will occur during the final verdict and it will be Poitiers a priori.
Except that the possibility of an alternative could have circulated: rather than giving up its rights, Souffelweyersheim could have ceded them against hard currency.
Hyères-Toulon, in great financial difficulty, did not do differently in 2018 by leaving room for Paris Basket in this same Pro B to start again in National 2 against a check for several hundred thousand euros.
“We were asked in this direction a few weeks ago by a group of agents,” indicates Eric Mittelhaeuser, co-president of the BCS. According to them, there would be two or three clubs which would have been ready to take our place. “
The leaders of the BCS discussed the subject with the authorities, devoted themselves to a reflection which led them to privilege the abandonment of their rights.
The Parisian project had other resonances at the federal level with the organization of the Olympics-2024 in the capital and the construction of a hall with more than 8,000 seats.
“Souffel” refused to get involved in a convoluted and sulphurous issue because we can easily imagine the reaction of the clubs concerned by the fight for maintenance…
“We stick to this position, all the more so since if we want to leave with our ‘one’ team, it will be in the Prenationale,” concludes Eric Mittelhaeuser, who presented a “landing file” this week to the DNCG. And it has been validated without worry.
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