PORTRAIT – Bombarded captain, the 29-year-old French rear will have to assume his role as leader in addition to that of boss of the attack. To his measure.
The France team puts on the warm-up blue. Deprived of Nicolas Batum and Nando de Colo, the “tannedof the 2019 World Cup and Olympic vice-champions in Tokyo are setting off to conquer Europe under the leadership of their new captain, a certain Evan Fournier. From the top of his 29 years and 86 selections, with four medals on the clock in A, the Francilien is not a newcomer to the tricolor landscape. He was already the selection’s top scorer in recent campaigns, since the end of the Parker era in 2016. It started with a flop at Euro 2017.No one has forgotten but that’s ancient history. It was still five years ago, there was a different group, we were really in the process of reshaping the team. I passed the sponge immediately after“, swears Fournier, who is now one of the elders, with Rudy Gobert and a few others. Above all, he is the new captain of the Blues in the absence of “Batman”.
A role that the former player of Nanterre 92, Poitiers…