Big blow to morale last night in the blue camp, since the France U17 team therefore lost its semi-final of the World Cup once morest… Spain, caramba them once more. After a hitherto perfect course and a wide but narrow victory (yes, yes) the day before once morest Slovenia of Luka Doncic Jan Vide, Bernard Faure’s team therefore left the tournament once morest our best enemies. Finally “left the tournament” not really, because it will be necessary to bounce back this evening to finish on a good note, at 6:30 p.m. once morest Lithuania, to return to the country enchanted with bronze.
We had the size and the talent, but La Roja had the size, the talent and the execution. Raised on a better foot than the Bleuets, the Rougets (it’s ugly) have therefore validated their ticket for the Final, where they will meet this evening, drum roll, the… Fiji Islands United States. Two hours earlier and that’s what interests us, Bernard Faure’s kids will therefore have the opportunity to finish their tournament with a smile, by going for a bronze medal that is anything but dishonourable. For that we will have to hit Lithuania, defeated yesterday and in large widths by the Fiji Islands finally we understood each other. Lithuanians who had also beaten Spain in chickens, Lithuanians who have the particularity of being blond and knowing how to shoot, because a respectable media must at least scout an opponent of this stature. Come on, we’ve worked a little so we’re throwing some local dangers at you. Vytautas Zygas, Justas Stonkus, Aleksas Bieliauskas. Don’t know, we just know that they are logically under 17 years old.
Homeland side? The names of Zaccharie Risacher and Illan Pietrus to the more thirty-somethings among you, that of Alexandre Sarr causes you if you are more in your twenties, while Ilane Fibleuil does not tell you much unless you have followed the results this season of the Federal Center. We’re not going to hide it huh, we discovered the majority of these players in the last ten days but none of that is going to prevent us from acting as if they were our brothers in arms this evening, at 6:30 p.m. live on the FIBA YouTube channel. Perhaps the opportunity to rediscover the local commentator pronouncing Risacher Riz Sachet, and we are also waiting to see how this same commentator will pronounce the name of Kristupas Kepezinskas.
Come on little ones a world medal is not nothing, as my uncle did not say because he was never a coach of anything. We will have to believe in it to concretely launch an international career that promises for most of the group, we believe in it, well we believe that we believe in it. GO BLUES.
