Basketball player Nando De Colo, Olympic vice-champion last summer in Tokyo with the France team, has decided to give up the European Championship scheduled for the end of the summer in Germany, he announced in the columns of The Team mardi.
“I spoke a few months ago to Vincent (Collet, the coach of the France team, editor’s note) and to the players, explained to them that I absolutely had to skip the Euros for me and my family, all in order to be present at the 2024 Olympics, with the desire to return as soon as the World Cup- 2023 to have this continuity and prepare for the following summer”explained the back of the France team, European champion in 2013.
“They understood the situation”
Since his first selection in the jersey of the Blues in a friendly on July 31, 2008, Nando de Colo (35 years old on June 23) has only missed one major tournament, the 2014 World Cup, due to a fracture in a finger contracted during preparation. He took part in the European Championships in 2009 (5th place), 2011 (silver), 2013 (gold), 2015 (bronze), 2017 (round of 16), at the Worlds in 2010 (round of 16) and 2018 (bronze). ), and at the Olympic Games-2012 (quarters), 2016 (quarters) and 2020 (bronze).
“They understood the situation, they know that I have always responded. In Europe, we chain the seasons, we have no rest after international competitions. Last summer was an incredible summer with the medal at the end, but you spend two months without your family and I need it today”added De Colo, 185 selections to his credit.
“What Nando brings is irreplaceable. He is a taulier and more and more »estimated in The Team the coach of the Blues, Vincent Collet. The French team faces an extremely busy summer with the European Championship from September 1 to 18, with a first round in Cologne and a final phase (from the round of 16) in Berlin, a competition preceded by two windows qualification for the 2023 World Cup at the beginning of July (end of the first phase) and at the end of August (beginning of the second phase).
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