After a change of team during the off-season, then gala matches and successful performances in the United States, Victor Wembanyama will take a new step this Friday.
The phenomenon of French basketball should indeed know his first selection in the A against Lithuania, then his second three days later, against Bosnia, as part of the qualifications for the 2023 World Cup. How does he live this first in the big ones in blue, which always remains a special moment in a career?
“It’s not quite the first time that I’ve worn the France team jersey,” he recalls in an interview for Le Parisien. “I have already had this pleasure and this honor with the youth teams. Today like yesterday, it’s the same thing: I always find an additional motivation to wear this jersey. Fighting for your country is always different and it gives you great inner energy. The France team is something important to me, it’s a major project: it will always remain in the back of my mind. »
The one who is announced as the first choice of the 2023 Draft already has clear ideas about what he will be able to bring to the Olympic vice-champions.
“I will try to include myself in the project, to adapt to the environment by watching how it goes to bring two victories to the French team. On the ground, freshness, presence. At all levels but especially in the France team, the main thing starts with defense. In this sector, I will try to bring my energy and pleasure » he explains thus.
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