2024-05-15 17:31:02
This time it is over. After months of suspense and rumors, the leaders of Metropolitans 92 have determined to not re-enter the membership within the French Championship subsequent season. Whether or not in Professional B, the place the membership was relegated sportingly after a disastrous season, or in Betclic Elite within the occasion of demotion of one other membership on the inexperienced carpet (Limoges).
The data was confirmed by town of Boulogne-Billancourt in a press launch this Tuesday: “In settlement with the companions, it was determined to not request registration from the LNB in the French Professional B championship for subsequent season. »
In keeping with our data, the managers, who had till Wednesday to submit a re-engagement file to the DNCCG, knowledgeable the monetary policeman of the Basketball League of their choice. They’d even have warned the membership’s staff within the morning, this Tuesday. Formally confirming a choice that everybody feared.
Final season once more, Victor Wembanyama was the attraction
The Mets due to this fact performed their final official match final Saturday towards Nanterre in a derby which had enlivened Ile-de-France – and French – basketball for years. A burial on the sly, removed from the fervor that accompanied the arabesques of Victor Wembanyama just a few months in the past.
After on the lookout for a purchaser – a overseas investor or a brand new host nation in Île-de-France – the city corridor of Boulogne-Billancourt, which directs the future of the membership through a cooperative society of collective curiosity (SCIC), has due to this fact determined to cease the charges. Inflicting the pure and easy disappearance of an emblematic French basketball membership, inheritor to PSG Racing, French champion in 1997, and Levallois, winner of the Coupe de France in 2013.
Within the metropolis’s press launch, the mayor of Boulogne-Billancourt, Pierre-Christophe Baguet (LR), defined his alternative: “These painful choices are sadly imposed on us. We now have performed every little thing lately to take care of our monetary assist for our skilled basketball crew and the ice rink (the closure of which was additionally introduced). However at present we should make decisions for the long run. »
When contacted, the managers didn’t reply to our requests.
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