Will the Nogentai have the privilege of discovering, on Friday evening, the American interior of the C’Chartres BM which will have to face Tours (N1) on Friday 16 September, at 8 pm, in the Jean-Zay room? “We hope to have him for the last game of preparation”, confided, on Tuesday 13 September, the coach of CCBM Milan Vasic who is “settling down” with the administration to bring the post to 4-5 as soon as possible. without prejudice to stand-by in the United States. “It is very complicated with visas, because the player does not come alone, he comes with the partner who is expecting a child at the end of October …”
The CCBM (before Cergy match) and a disturbed preparation
The concern in this story is that the couple are not married and the US administration can only issue a (long) work visa for the player, not for his partner. Only a tourist visa. However, tourist visas have a limited duration of three months.
Emergency for all
Given the situation, there is urgency for everyone: urgency for the CCBM and, first and foremost, for its coach Moatassim Rhennam, who longs to play with lighter interiors; emergency for the player, who will arrive in the absence of benchmarks before the Coupe de France match (21 September) and especially for the start of the championship (27 September), with a discouraging first month that will see the CCBM face big players like Challans (27 / 09), Poitiers (1/10), Rueil (11/10), Tours (21/10) or even Lorient (28/10); Finally, an emergency for the player’s partner who has entered the eighth month of pregnancy.
An experience in Serbia and Portugal.
The American, who is expected to arrive in Chartres, whose club did not want to reveal his identity, is 25 years old and measures 2.01 m. “He has already had two experiences in Europe, in Serbia and Portugal last season. He is an explosive player who can alternate in positions 4 and 5 ”, underlines the manager of the CCBM Milan Vasic. In this internal sector, the coach Moatassim Rhennam already has three elements, the pivot Valentin Mukuna (29), already present in 2021-2022, and the strong wings Gide Noël (29, Caen / N1) and Moustafa Haidara (19 years) , which comes from the elite hopes of Fos-sur-Mer. The latter has been very productive in the last two preparatory matches, won against Vitré (76-72) and Cergy (67-63), with an average of 14 points and 14 rebounds.
Before charting his American future, the Chartres club had tested Omari Gudul (28 years / 2.06m), a Congolese, American college graduate who had faced the CCBM during the 2018-2019 season. He was in ProB and the African interns were playing in Blois at the time. Gudul then went into exile in Eastern Europe, Romania and then Poland. He was even close to returning to France last season, in Le Havre, but the Norman club did not sign him in the end, the inside of him was recovering from a serious knee injury. Chartres did not take it for the same reason as the Le Havre club.
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Jean-André Prevost
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