Basketball
Tony Parker: ‘France’s World Cup performance is a fiasco’
NBA Hall of Fame and France’s former quarterback Tony Parker He admitted that he was very upset after the departure of the French team from the 2023 World Cup.
“We failed. We talked about this with Nicolas Batum for a long time, on the phone for an hour, and it’s true that it’s very, very insulting. Such a team should not be eliminated in the first round. Have you ever seen Spain or the USA eliminated in the first round? This is very disappointing because our generation has worked hard to bring France to a certain level, to get it respected by FIBA, the referees and other countries. It’s hard to get respect.
We have a big choice to make in the near future. If you want to have great players like Joel Embiid and Victor Vembanyama everything has to go well because that might mean leaving the team to some leaders and that can cause turmoil. We need to improve the team, we need changes, but it won’t be easy,” Parker said.
Source: Sport UA
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