2023-05-02 13:14:02
Céline Dumerc will play her last matches in the Basket Landes jersey. Federico Pestellini / PANORAMIC
European champion with France and Olympic vice-champion, Céline Dumerc will hang up at the age of 40, at the end of the play-offs of the championship she is playing with Basket Landes.
This time, I promise, it’s the end. Céline Dumerc, 40, announces that she will hang up the sneakers at the end of the current season. “End of the suspense, this time, I’m stopping“, announced the leader of Basket Landes via her social networks. After a false retirement in 2021, Dumerc decided.
«If I only spoke while listening to my heart, the love of this game would keep me going until eternity, develops Dumerc. I feel like I have to stop there.” Considered the greatest French basketball player in history, Dumerc has 267 caps with the France team, a record for men and women combined.
A track record as long as your arm
The native of Tarbes (Hautes-Pyrénées) led Les Bleues to a title of European champions in 2009, three silver medals at the Euro (2013, 2015, 2017) and another silver medal at the 2012 Olympic Games, beaten in the final by the United States.
Her record is even richer in club, she who made the heyday of Bourges (2003-2009 then 2011-2016) before joining Basket Landes in the summer of 2016. With Bourges, she was 6 times champion of France, and was again with Basket Landes in 2021. She also has 7 French Cups, including the 2022 and 2023 editions to end her career in style, as well as a coronation in the Eurocup with Bourges, in 2016.
Dumerc and Basket Landes play in the play-offs this Tuesday
Voted best player in the French championship in 2008 and 2014, Dumerc became, in early April, the most prolific scorer in the history of the women’s league, with more than 4,600 points.
And it’s not over ! Basket Landes is involved in the play-offs of the French championship. In the quarter-finals, Dumerc and his team face… Bourges, his lifelong club. “I’ll enjoy these last moments on the court with you“, promises Dumerc. The quarter-finals are played in the best of 3 rounds. The first match, in Mont-de-Marsan, takes place this Tuesday (8:50 p.m.) before match 2 on Saturday (8 p.m.). Potentially the last of Céline Dumerc.
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