Clap for Céline Dumerc? Not right away, but next year. Finally, probably next year ... At 37, the leader of Basket Landes should indeed hang up at the end of next season. "It will be my 21st and last season," she said Sunday, on RMC. Promised sworn ? "It's difficult for me to formalize it, to say it out loud, but I think it will be my last season", continued the former captain of the Blue, still dashing in 2019-20 with 8 points, 47% from a distance and 3.4 assists in the French LFB championship (12 matches). "It is complicated. We were cut in mid-flight, ”she says. The women's championship was indeed swept away by the Coronavirus pandemic. “It's still a shock, continues“ Caps ”. We had to take the end of a season that never ends. ”
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It remains to be seen when the next one will start, and under what conditions. "It scares me because I am not very young and I must not stop for too long. The recovery will be complicated, predicts Dumerc. I still talk a little. But it's been over two months since I touched a ball. ”
Back to the French team box
Uncertainty regarding next season, but the future of the concerned is already set in stone. We have indeed learned in recent days that Céline Dumerc has to put on the suit of General Manager of the French women's team. "I was often asked what I wanted to do after my playing career," she said at a press conference. It was rather vague because I had no particular desire, I had not really planned the end of my career, or after. The proposal of the federation allowed me to concretize the handover and the post-career. ” Former of Tarbes (his hometown), Bourges, Ekaterinbourg and Atlanta, Dumerc, it is notably six titles of champion of France, two in Russia and a gold medal at Euro 2009 under the colors of the team of France (262 selections).
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