2023-05-02 13:43:10
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Céline Dumerc, ex-captain of the French basketball team, announced on Tuesday the end of her career at the age of 40. The Olympic vice-champion (2012) and European champion (2009) should now devote herself to her position as general manager of Les Bleues.
“End of suspense, this time I’m stopping!” The former captain of the Blue Céline Dumerc, Olympic vice-champion (2012) and European champion (2009), announced, Tuesday, May 2, the end of his career at the end of this season with his club of Basket Landes .
A few hours before the quarter-final first leg of the French Championship that she must play with her team located in Mont-de-Marsan against Bourges, the 40-year-old player explained her choice on social networks:
“I’m going to take advantage of these last moments on the court, with you”, promises “Cap’s” who hangs up his sneakers with at least one title this season: the Coupe de France won ten days earlier against Asvel. The second in line.
Barely the 2022 edition won, the leader, also four times European vice-champion in blue, had surprised her world by announcing in full festivities on the ground that she was extending the adventure for a year.
Already manager of the France team
But not this time. “If I only spoke while listening to my heart, the love of this game would keep me going until eternity. But if I want to be honest with you, with me, I feel like I have to stop there” , explains the one who became, at the beginning of April, the best scorer in the history of the Women’s Basketball League.
The rest is all found for Céline Dumerc who has already been general manager of the French women’s team since 2020.
“We still have a quarter-final to play against Bourges, however, reminds the competitor on Tuesday. And why not more if we let ourselves be carried away by sweet dreams.”
The original Tarbaise, who made the great years of the Tango de Bourges, carried to six titles of champion of France, can collect an eighth personal national coronation and a second with Basket Landes after the sensation of 2021.
With AFP
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