The subject is sensitive. While he led the Blues against Montenegro on Monday in qualifying for Euro 2021 (victory 85-66), Vincent Collet will come to the end of the contract after the Tokyo Games this summer. And no one knows today whether it will be extended or replaced. "Our objective is Tokyo, and then we will work on after Tokyo," says the president of the FFBB, Jean-Pierre Siutat.
Evicted from Strasbourg at the start of the year, Collet, 56, said he was ready to continue the adventure with the Blues. “The desire is there, the 2024 Games in Paris are an exciting challenge to take up, assured us the interested party last week. But it is the Federation that has the cards in hand and I will respect their decision. ”
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- French Basketball Teams ⛹️♂️⛹️♀️ (@FRABasketball) February 24, 2020In place since 2009, Collet has been the man of the most beautiful tricolor campaigns with, in particular, gold at Euro 2013 and bronze at the Worlds 2014 and 2019. He is the main candidate for his own succession.
But among the credible - and unofficial - successors, the names of Pascal Donnadieu (Nanterre), his right arm in selection since 2016 and natural heir, Laurent Legname, currently co-leader of Jeep Elite with Dijon, and Fred Fauthoux (Boulogne-Levallois) are most often cited. The leaders of the Boulogne-Levallois club even provoked an emergency meeting last week when they learned that their coach would be on a short list of the FFBB. Under contract until 2021, the former captain of Pau enjoys this ambitious club but he has many supporters of the federation like the assistant general manager Boris Diaw - also president of ... Boulogne-Levallois -, or the director teams from France Jacques Commères. The soap opera is just beginning. The only certainty is that the Federation should favor a French coach to lead the Blues to the 2024 Paris Games.
