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James Rust

20 February 2008

The French team is participating for the 19th time at the AST tournament which finally won in 2006

France

The French team
is participating for the 19th time at the AST tournament which finally won in 2006. This year the French are eager to defend their title. Regularly they mustered up strong teams in Mannheim, but til 2006 it was only sufficient for the second place in 1996 and for the third place in 1967 such as in 1989. Almost every time the French had later NBA players in the roster: Jerome Moiso, who played for Boston, Charlotte, New Orleans, Toronto, New Jersey, and Cleveland, whirled beyond the baskets in 1996. In 1998 a very young player named Tony Parker, in the meantime a three time NBA champion with the San Antonio Spurs, was leading the French game. At the AST 2000 there were even two players with Boris Diaw (Phoenix Suns) and Ronny Turiaf (Los Angeles Lakers) who once chased after the basket for France and who now earn their money in the American professional league. In 2002 Center Johan Petro participated, who celebrated his NBA debut with the Seatle Supersonics in 2005.

The French always counted to one of the best European team in this age group. The Euorpean Championship title in 2006, 2000 and 1992 as well as the second place at the European Championship in 1996 and in 1964 underline this statement. At the World Championship in 1995 they made the eigth place, at the U10 World Championship 2007 they won the bronze medal.

roster

name	born	club	height	position
Andrew Albicy	1990	Paris Levallois	170 cm	1
Nicolas Lang	1990	Chalon sur Saô	190 cm	1
Jonathan Bourhis	1990	JDA Dijon	180 cm	1
Jonathan Rousselle	1990	Gravelines	188 cm	1
Elio Sadiku	1991	Saint Etienne	188 cm	1
Jérôme Sanchez	1990	Bourg	192 cm	2
Florian Thibedore	1990	Besançon	190 cm	2
Lens Aboudou	1990	Paris Levallois	192 cm	2
Christophe Leonard	1990	USL Montjoly (CFBB)	199 cm	3
Benjamin Vauquios	1990	Orléans Basket	194 cm	3
Saer Neguib Faye Djobo	1990	STB Le Havre (CFBB)	197 cm	3
Ivan Emanuely	1991	SLUC Nancy	198 cm	3
Maxime Courby	1990	Gravelines	198 cm	3
Jonathan Leria	1990	Pau-Orthez	196 cm	3
Alexis Tanghe	1990	Blois (CFBB)	207 cm	4,5
Yohann Jacques	1990	SLUC Nancy	203 cm	3,4
Landing Sane	1990	Paris Levallois (CFBB)	207 cm	5
Tanguy Ramassamy	1990	Pau-Orthez	203 cm	4
Miguel Buval	1990	Pau-Orthez	206 cm	4,5
Thomas Celerier	1990	Limoges CSP (CFBB)	203 cm	5