The French basketball team blew up a surprisingly high caliber and overthrew the US outside the world championships in China.
The French team qualified to the golden square of the championship well-deserved, after winning the precious match in an exciting game from the beginning, until the final whistle.
The French team will meet Argentina in the golden round of the championship on Friday, while the US team will meet with his Serbian in the positions of the fifth to eighth, where the game between them will be a repeat of the final of the last edition of the tournament.
The French team deprived the US of defending its world title, which was crowned in the last two versions in 2010 and 2014.
The World Cup runners-up Serbia lost to Argentina in another quarter-final on Saturday, leaving the golden box for the current version of both sides of the final in the last edition.
The win is the fifth of the French team in six games so far, the only defeat in the tournament so far when they fell to Australia at the end of Group D matches in the second round of the tournament after the two teams to qualify for the quarter-finals.
On the other hand, the US team suffered its first defeat in the current tournament, after winning its first five games by three games in his group in the first round and two games in his group in the second round (round 16).
It was only the fourth and first time since 2002 that the US had missed the top four.
The US suffered their first major defeat since 2006.
The US team also lost the chance to become the first team in history to win the world title in three consecutive versions.
The US team was qualified for the next Olympic Games (Tokyo 2020); after qualifying for the quarter-finals, where he was with Argentina, the only two teams from the Americas qualified for the quarter-finals.
In contrast, the French team secured qualification for the Olympics with his Spanish counterpart, who arrived with him to the golden box in the current World Cup, where the current tournament qualifies the best teams from Europe to the Olympics.
American Donovan Mitchell had 29 points, six rebounds and four assists, but did not save his team from defeat, while Orlando Magic's Ivan Fournier was the best scorer with 22 points.