The French team qualified for the 2019 World Cup in China (31 August-15 September) thanks to their victory in the Czech Republic (79-65) tonight.
The French team qualified for the 2019 World Cup in China (31 August-15 September) thanks to their victory in the Czech Republic (79-65) tonight. The Blues have recorded in Pardubice their eighth victory in nine games. qualification, and are sure to finish in the top three of their group, condition to see China in the late summer of 2019.
France won its first world medal in 2014 in Spain, bronze for a team led by Boris Diaw, the iconic captain who retired internationally in September 2018, two years after the star Tony Parker, who hung up with the Blues after the quarter-final exit of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio.
In China, the French will try to clear the flop of the European Championship in 2017 (elimination in the round of 16 against Germany), especially as the two best European nations in the World Championship will validate their ticket for the Olympics 2020 in Tokyo.
In the Czech Republic, Vincent Collet had to cope with many absences, between NBA and Euroleague players retained by their clubs and a cascade of injuries.
And it is a novice in the blue jersey, Amath M'Baye, who put himself in the light in the Czech Republic, with 18 points for his first selection, the best French scorer of the game.