The Chartrains basketball players have an appointment this Monday afternoon, at 3 p.m. at the CRJS, for their reunion without a ball, around a table to set the scene for this new season and collect their package. We will wait until Tuesday to see the first drops of sweat flow on the floor of the hall.
This will already be the tenth year that Milan Vasic (45 years old in October), the ex-three-point trigger, will begin as general manager. After a season with Raphaël Gaume, two with Philippe Namyst and the last six-year lease with Sébastien Lambert, the MG settles the last details before this first meeting.
And among all the files in progress, remains that of the ninth and last pro player to be found, that of the only foreigner that the CCBM will have this season. A well-advanced track is being studied with an American.
“The market is weird, quite expensive, this year. Good players are always waiting. We took the option of having only one foreigner. »
Milan Vasic (General Manager of CCBM)
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“When I see that the play-off final was played between La Rochelle, which suffered in the league until January, and Mulhouse, which was not the big battalion of our group, I tell myself that the beautiful adventures still exist. Budget and payroll are not everything! »
In the West, something new!
Precisely, with a provisional budget which is between 1.3 and 1.4 million euros, of which three-quarters are devoted to the professional group, the CCBM is far from the big teams which flirt with 2 million. “In terms of payroll, we have to be in the Top 7, but I repeat, and Mulhouse is proof of this, La Rochelle too, it is the second phase that we have to negotiate well.
Marc-Antoine Pellin, un ex-international au C’Chartres Basket Masculin
“Today, we are more in the second part in the ranking of budgets. But it’s the terrain and the athlete that determine everything, ”concludes Milan Vasic who is not unhappy to discover the clubs of the western group, with certain less distant trips but also trips to Toulouse and Tarbes.
“But, sportingly, the West Pool is strong. Last season, two clubs from this pool finally came together! »
The membership of the ccbm
Later 1 : Yann Siegwarth (28 years old/1.85m), Marc-Antoine Pellin (34 years old/1.71m), Antoine Fardin (19 years old/1.87m).
Next 2: Paul Bouloukouet (28 years old / 1.85m), Ugo doumbia (19 years old / 1.90m).
Then 3: Jérémy Ricard-Dorigo (28 years old / 2.00 m), Alpha M’Bodj (32 years old / 1.98 m).
Then 4: Gide Noel (29 years old / 1.98 m).
Then 5: Valentin Mukuna (29 years old / 2.06m), Moustafa Haidara (20 years old / 2.02m).
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Hervé Paraut
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