The France team puts on the warm-up blue.
Deprived of Nicolas Batum and Nando de Colo, the "
tanned
" of the 2019 World Cup and Olympic vice-champions of Tokyo set off to conquer Europe under the leadership of their new captain, a certain Evan Fournier.
From the top of his 29 years and 86 selections, with four medals on the clock in A, the Francilien is not a newcomer to the tricolor landscape.
He was already the selection's best scorer in recent campaigns, since the end of the Parker era in 2016. It started with a flop at Euro 2017
. of ancient history.
It was still five years ago, there was a different group, we were really in the process of reshaping the team.
I spent the
“, swears Fournier, who is now one of the elders, with Rudy Gobert and a few others.
Above all, he is the new captain of the Blues in the absence of "Batman".
A role that the former player of Nanterre 92, Poitiers…
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