While the Blues have just finished their preparation for the 2023 World Cup (with a defeat against Australia) and will start their competition on August 25 against Canada (3:30 p.m. French time), the French Basketball Federation comes to announce that Mathias Lessort would finally be able to join the group!
In care since the beginning of the preparation to treat a painful ankle, the new pivot of Panathinaikos had remained in France to be treated, but he is now fit for the 2023 World Cup.
The FFBB specifies that Mathias Lessort followed a coordinated care protocol between the medical staff of the French team and that of Panathinaikos and that he received the medical green light from his new club and the French staff.
He will join the group directly in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Tuesday August 22, while Vincent Poirier and Yoan Makoundou, who came to lend a hand to the interior sector of the French team during the last two preparation matches in Japan, will leave on their side. the group on Monday August 21.
Interior versatile, strong rebounder and able to sink his defender in one-on-one, Matthias Lessort has established himself as a major player in Europe, and his profile will be valuable in the racket of the Blues, alongside Guerschon Yabusele, Rudy Gobert and Moustapha Fall. Hence this reinstatement in the home straight.
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