Barely time to recover from the emotions of the last EuroBasket that you already have to get back to work in order to qualify for the 2023 World Cup. Barely time to recover from Victor Wembanyama’s mixtape in the United States that ‘we must already imagine the rest, and the relationship between these two pieces of information is all found since it’s official, in November the young giant should play for the very first time with the tricolor jersey.
Japan, Indonesia and the Philippines. This is where the French team should logically be from August 25 to September 10, 2023, to compete in a “strategic” World Cup, one year before the Paris Olympic Games. By then Victor Wembanyama will have hopefully continued to put the basketball planet in PLS, and he will in any case have had the opportunity to do so on an international scale since we learned yesterday that the V would be part of in November of the group of twelve French whose objective will be to beat Lithuania and Bosnia in order to take a (very) big step towards qualifying for the World Cup. Here, look at the ranking:
Two other matches will take place in February, if they could be without too much of a challenge, we sign right away, but the big event in November will in any case be the presence of the biggest prospect in the world, with a flocked jersey France and at adults, a great first. Difficult to tease today the adversity that will be offered to him, but Jusuf Nurkic, Jonas Valanciunas or Domantas Sabonis are names that resonate, even if these international “windows” do not usually bring together NBA players and / or EuroLeague, because the poor do not have the gift of ubiquity. The French team which will also be largely turned upside down since only two medalists from September will be there, Andrew Albicy and Terry Tarpey, while four players in all will make their debut in Blue (Wembanyama therefore, then Yoan Makoundou, Damien Inglis and Ismaël Kamagate). Also note that the Bressan Alexandre Chassang will also be on the trip and that I met him on Thursday at Carrefour, and that these two matches – this info will be more useful to you – will take place on Friday November 11 at 7:30 p.m. (in Lithuania) and on Monday 14 at 8:30 p.m. (against Bosnia) and will be broadcast on BeIN Sports and France 4.
Victor Wembanyama will therefore take an Uber with his coach and leave for the EDF, to shock a few Lithuanian and Bosnian darons. The objective of this international window? Two victories and a guaranteed qualification for 2023, just to be able to send friends to us to play the last two games in February.