ESBVA-LM, the club from the northern city, was heavily beaten by Fenerbahçe, 106 to 73, in the final of the Euroleague basketball. Rachid Méziane's players, however, got back into their match well, ending the first quarter with a score of 28 to 27 in favor of the Turks.
Title holders, the Turks were notably buoyed by the 33 points and eight rebounds of the American Napheesa Collier and the 22 of the Belgian Emma Meesseman. “They played better basketball than us and they deserve their victory. We still have to learn to become a better team next year,” said Méz Diane afterwards, after the match in Mersin. “If we win, it will be an achievement,’ Carmelo Scarna, the president of the Villeneuve-d’Ascq club, told us on Saturday, “We don't have the budgets of our opponents, but the girls are in commando operation. »