Continuing on from the start of the season, Le Parisien offers a selection of issues and events not to be missed in Île-de-France before each weekend.
Overview.
Player to watch: Victor Wembanyama
BASKETBALL
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Two weeks after their media road trip to Las Vegas, Victor Wembanyama and his partners from the Metropolitans 92 are back home, in front of their audience in their lair at the Marcel-Cerdan sports hall in Levallois.
A match that will be sold out.
If most spectators will come to see the Wemby phenomenon in "real life", the match promises to be equally attractive.
Undefeated for three days, the players of Vincent Collet welcome, this Friday, the astonishing and explosive promoted Blois who is installed at the top of the table with a record of 4 successes for a loss.
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Among the other matches of the weekend, note that Nanterre will travel to Dijon on Saturday without its interior Miralem Halilovic.
The Bosnian international, best Nanterrien since the start of the season, injured a finger on Tuesday during the victory at Orleans (66-84) in the 32nd final of the Coupe de France.
His unavailability is estimated at two months.
To be scared this weekend: Halloween in advance at the Stade Français
RUGBY
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With a little advance and to celebrate the start of the school holidays, the Stade Français welcomes Brive, this Saturday at 3 p.m. for the 8th day of the Top 14, on Halloween mode.
And it's not, hopefully, because the spectacle on the lawn will be worthy of a horror movie.
The players of Gonzalo Quesada (3rd with 18 points) will rather aim for a 3rd victory in a row in the Top 14 to stay at the top of the table.
No, it is in the stands that the monsters will have taken their places.
The Parisian club promises Halloween-themed entertainment of all kinds (axe throwing, explosive pumpkins, "dark room" in the passageways, face painting for children), while terrifying individuals will circulate in the middle of the public... Fans are invited to come in costume and extend the party at the Bodega in the Jean-Bouin stadium,
A little before, at 3 p.m. in Paris La Défense Arena, Racing 92 welcomes Castres in a match that the Ciel et Blancs (11th with 13 points) must imperatively win in order not to see their season transformed into a horror film.
🎃 On the occasion of the reception in Brive, our Parisians lent themselves to the game of trapped pumpkins 😅
🫵 You too, take part in our many activities this Saturday, with family or friends!
🎟 Your tickets: https://t.co/eTyyLEnKQM#SFPCAB
— Stade Français Paris (@SFParisRugby) October 19, 2022
The number: 3
ICE HOCKEY.
Like the number of matches that the Cergy-Pontoise Jokers will play in the space of 5 days.
Revelation of last season after reaching the semi-finals of the playoffs, the Val-d'Oisienne team (6th) made a decent start to the season (6 wins and 4 losses) after an off-season where the workforce was almost renewed. by 70%.
Jonathan Paredes' men have the opportunity to get closer to the podium with an affordable program.
They receive this Friday (8:30 p.m.) Briançon (11th) then Amiens (9th) Sunday (3 p.m.) before going to Picardy next Tuesday (8:15 p.m.) against the same opponent.
𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐎𝐍𝐂𝐄 - Diambar will make the show during the match between the Jokers of Cergy-Pontoise and the Red Devils of Briançon!
🏒
Don't miss his performance this Friday, October 21, 8:30 p.m. at Aren'Ice 🔥
📍 Aren'Ice
⌚️ Friday, October 21, 8:30
p.m. 🎫 Link in bio pic.twitter.com/wLtxopSjeY
– The Jokers of Cergy-Pontoise (@les_jokers) October 20, 2022
The poster of the weekend: duel of neighbors in volleyball
VOLLEYBALL.
The atmosphere promises to be festive and boiling.
The renovated hall of Plessis-Robinson should be sold out this Saturday evening for the Ile-de-France derby against the big brother of Paris Volley.
An appointment that has become unavoidable.
If Le Plessis looks like Tom Thumb against the XXL record of Parisians (9 titles of champion of France since the 21st century in particular), he can count on the former captain of the Blues Antonin Rouzier and the neo-international Médéric Henry - taller League A player with 212 centimeters - to overturn the established order.
The Parisians will be able to rely on the two nuggets, the passer Kellian Motta Paes, 20, and the striker Ibrahim Lawani, 21, silver medalists this summer at the Euro under 22.
💛🖤 D-9 before Plessis - Paris
The season has just started and it's already the shock between the two IDF clubs!
A historic derby since it is the first of LAM to take place in the Omnisports area and its brand new ground.
The opportunity to beat its attendance record 🏟️🔝 pic.twitter.com/LG5rqC6VBI
— Plessis-Robinson Volley Ball (@prvball92) October 13, 2022
The event: the best of women's basketball in Carpentier
BASKETBALL
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The gratin of women's basketball met this Friday evening at the Halle Carpentier (Paris XIII) for the match of champions.
A duel which will oppose Bourges - crowned champion of France and Eurocup last season - to Basket Landes, winner of the Coupe de France 2022. A poster that makes your mouth water and gives a taste of the season which will start next week.
This shock will also allow the Ile-de-France public, weaned from professional women's basketball since the ephemeral adventure of Sceaux in the Women's League in 2001-2002, to attend a high-level match.
Just days after winning the European Women's Super Cup last Tuesday against European champion Sopron, the Berruyères will try to win the first trophy of the season in France.
They will be able to rely on the international Sarah Michel or even Élodie Godin, the silver medalist at the London Olympics in 2012 who, at 37, could play her last professional season.
On the other hand, Endy Miyem (injured) is absent.
Champion of France in 2021, Basket Landes will be able to count on Marine Fauthoux, Marie-Ève Paget and Kendra Chery, a trio which was present in Australia a few weeks ago for the World Cup (France had been eliminated in the quarter-finals).
Manager of Les Bleues during the southern competition, Céline Dumerc will abandon the costume of the staff of the France team to put on the player's tunic for a 23rd season at the highest level.
While she had announced that she wanted to retire, the emblematic playmaker, in her forties since July, finally decided to continue the adventure for another season.
To the delight of Basket Landes and fans of French basketball.
🫣 Who will lift the first trophy of the season: @BourgesBasket or @BasketLandes?
🗓️ See you at the Halle Carpentier on October 21 to find out the identity of the winner 🏆
🎫 Your places on https://t.co/hTeQoXEHyE#lLFB25 #MatchDesChampionsLFB pic.twitter.com/JfQCI9rst3
— LFB (@basketlfb) October 3, 2022
The sentence: Fred Havas, coach of Levallois
VOLLEYBALL.
Make way for women!
Three weeks after their male counterparts, it's the turn of the Women's League players to return to the championship grounds.
A late restart due to the World Championship which ended last weekend with the coronation of Serbia in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands, ahead of Brazil.
While still living in N2 (the 3rd division) in 2018, the Levallois club discovers this season the elite of French volleyball.
This does not prevent the coach, former international Fred Havas, from being ambitious for the future.
“Everything went very quickly, we went from a college gymnasium to the magnificent Marcel-Cerdan sports hall, appreciates the person concerned.
For the moment we are not equipped for this level, we have to develop our skills, build a story between the city and volleyball because it is a discovery for many here, but there is everything to succeed.
The town hall supports us.
We can play the Champions League in the near future.
“Due to the layout of the Marcel-Cerdan sports hall, Levallois will start his season with 4 trips, the first Saturday evening at Terville Florange.
For its part, the Stade Français Paris Saint-Cloud will launch its season with the reception of Vandoeuvre-Nancy on Saturday.
The opportunity for the club and the public to pay tribute to Claude Orphelin, emblematic and historic leader, who died suddenly at the beginning of October.
The tournament to discover: the over 55s in the spotlight in Créteil
HANDBALL.
Under the aegis of the French Handball Federation, the very first edition of the tournament called "Hand at any age" will take place this Saturday, October 22 at the handball house in Créteil (Val-de-Marne).
Sixteen teams will compete to show the importance of continuing to practice an activity as you age.
Both reserved for men and women on the sole condition of being licensed in a club and being over 55 years old, this tournament is intended to be a first step before the organization of a European tournament which will take place in parallel with the Paris 2024 Olympics. With this in mind, the tournament will also be a means of identifying player profiles to form the first national team for the over 55s.
The other challenge is to pursue the strategy of developing handball at 4, a discipline which is only in its infancy.
THE PROGRAM
BASKETBALL
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Betclic Elite
(6th day): BOULOGNE-LEVALLOIS - Blois (Friday, 8.30 p.m., Marcel-Cerdan sports hall);
Dijon - NANTERRE (Saturday, 8 p.m.);
Pau-Orthez - PARIS (Saturday, 8 p.m.).
National 1
(6th day): Toulouse - RUEIL (Friday, 8 p.m.);
CERGY-PONTOISE - Pont-de-Chéruy (Saturday, 8 p.m., Complexe Maradas).
Women's League.
Matches of champions
: Bourges - Basket Landes (Friday, 8:30 p.m., halle Carpentier, Paris XIII).
HANDBALL
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Liqui Moly Starligue
(6th day): Dunkirk - Créteil (Thursday, 8 p.m.);
PSG - Limoges (Friday, 8 p.m., Pierre-de-Coubertin stadium, Paris 16th);
IVRY - Montpellier (Friday, 8.30 p.m., Auguste Delaune gymnasium).
Proligue
(6th day): Caen - Massy (Thursday, 8.30 p.m.);
Cherbourg - TREMBLAY (Friday, 8.30 p.m.): PONTAULT - Villeurbanne (Friday, 8.30 p.m., Espace Roger-Boisramé).
Butagaz League
(6th day)
: PARIS 92 - Bourg de Péage Drôme (Friday, 8.30 p.m., sports hall).
HOCKEY.
Magnus League
(12th day): CERGY-PONTOISE - Briançon (Friday, 8.30 p.m., Aren'Ice);
(13th day): Amiens -CERGY-PONTOISE (Sunday, 8:15 p.m.).
RUGBY.
Top 14
(8th day): RACING 92 - Montpellier (Saturday, 3 p.m., Paris La Défense Arena in Nanterre);
- STADE FRANCAIS - Brive (Saturday, 5 p.m., Jean Bouin stadium, Paris XVI).
ProD2
(8th day): Vannes - MASSY (Friday, 7:30 p.m.).
National
(7th day).
SURESNES - Albi (Saturday, 6 p.m., Jean-Moulin stadium)
VOLLEYBALL.
League A
(4th day): LE PLESSIS-ROBINSON - PARIS (Saturday, 7 p.m., Espace Omnisports).
Women's A League
(1st day): STADE FRANCAIS PARIS SAINT-CLOUD - Vandoeuvre-Nancy (Saturday, 8 p.m., Geo-André stadium, Paris 16th);
Terville Florange - LEVALLOIS (Saturday, 7.30 p.m.).