Two weeks before the start of the Euro (August 28 against Belgium in Katowice in Poland), the French basketball team begins the last part of its preparation. The final stretch should allow him to refine the settings on the field, bone the relations between the players and choose the 12 elected officials called to compete in the continental competition.
Left at rest for three days after their victory in Pau against Great Britain last Friday (74-67), the Blues met in Spain on Tuesday in Badalone. They face this Thursday (9 p.m.) La Roja for the first of the two duels against the Spanish selection.
The second, programmed on Saturday at Accor Arena, will also be the scene of a tribute to the two recent Nando retirees from Colo and Nicolas Batum as well as for rare internationals who reached the 200 capes mark.
After Montenegro (81-75 victory on August 4 at the opening of the preparation) and Great Britain, the partners of Guerschon Yabusele will therefore spend two big tests against their executioner in the final of the last euro in 2022. Their best enemy against which the matches are always Homerics, Electric, and Rarely Friendly.
After two unfinished outings in the face of second European selections, the coach Frédéric Faith considers that his team, faced with a range of packages (Victor Wembanyama, Mathias Lessort, Rudy Gobert and Evan Fournier), still “has a lot of progress to do on the collective” and that “these will be two very rich games”.
“Defensively we left (to the opponent) Situations a little too easy, in attack we must find more cohesion and affinities ”, developed in Pau the successor of Vincent Collet.
These two meetings – already enticing – will be all the more awaited that they will also be an opportunity for the coach to see a little more clearly in the choice of the twelve internationals selected for the Euro.
“𝘾𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙞𝙨 𝙟𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝙤𝙣𝙩 𝙙𝙪 𝙗𝙞𝙚𝙣” “
Housed against Great Britain, Sylvain Francisco is back in training for a decisive week 👊#TeamFranceBasket | #Passionately | #Eurobasket
– French basketball teams (@frapobasketball) August 12, 2025
Wounded with a shoulder and left to rest against Great Britain, the leader Sylvain Francisco is back on the prosecution to defend his chances. « More fear than harm, ”assures the leader on the site of the French basketball federation.
Two players must still be dismissed, a priori among Sylvain Francisco, Nadir Hifi, Elie Okobo and Timothé Luwawu-Cabarrot. Unless injuries, the supervision would like to fly to Athens – where the Blues will play their last preparation match against Greece on August 24 – with the 12 who will participate in the competition.
