Club founded in the early 2000s, Basket Landes has climbed the ranks one by one, participating for the first time in the Euroleague this season after the renunciation of ... Montpellier a year ago because of the health crisis and in due to economic and financial uncertainties. The daughters of Julie Barennes are rewarded with this title, at the end of a season spent almost exclusively behind closed doors due to the Covid-19 pandemic. They will return to the Euroleague next season, just like Montpellier qualified thanks to its coronation in the Coupe de France.
Explosion of joy for @BasketLandes, winner after the suspense of @ ASVEL_Feminin (77-73) in the first semi-final of # Final4LFB at Prado.
Against Bourges or the BLMA, this will be the first participation in a final of the French championship for the Mons team pic.twitter.com/CX5T0CcZ6u
- Nicolas Werquin (@NicolasWerquin) May 13, 2021
In a hooked final, Basket Landes was launched by his French back Valériane Vukosavljevic, who scored the first 10 points for his team (16 in the final).
Also known by her maiden name, Ayayi, she won her fourth title of champion of France with a fourth club after Montpellier, Villeneuve d'Ascq and Bourges.
Hard-wearing at almost 39 years old (July 9), Céline Dumerc has once again shown herself to be decisive: silent for 38 minutes, it was she who scored her first (and only) basket, a three points that allowed Basket Landes to widen a gap of seven points less than two minutes from the end (63-56, 38th).
"Beyond the Imaginable"
The two teams then traded the winning shots in the final two minutes, with Vukosavljevic for Basket Landes responding to Migna Touré. And it is "Caps" who managed the last possession of the ball, fourteen seconds from the end while the coronation was assured, to make the most of these last moments, and her seventh title of champion of France (six with Bourges in the years 2000 and 2010).
"It's barjot, it's barjot!", She launched in the middle of her teammates, while
The eyes of Emilie
resounded in musical background in the Prado de Bourges, host of the Final 4 of the League feminine this weekend.
"I don't even have words, it's a sick thing, it's beyond imaginable", commented at the microphone of the channel
L'Équipe
the most capped player of the team of France basketball (262 caps on international retirement in 2017) at the end of the match.
“Frankly I think there are better teams in our championship, but we had a huge heart. There was something this year. It’s amazing and I’m so proud ”
Celine Dumerc
“I won titles, but this one is the most unexpected.
Frankly I think there are better teams in our league, but we had a huge heart.
There was something this year.
It's amazing and I'm so proud, ”she added.
While she thought in September 2020 to start her last season as a professional basketball player, she finally decided to extend a sixth and final season at Basket Landes, and will be able to play the Euroleague one last time.
This time, if the health situation allows it, she will make the public of Mont-de-Marsan discover the crazy evenings of Euroleague, while for this season in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, the group stage of the C1 has been remodeled and Basket Landes has never played at home.
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