Teddy Riner, Zinédine Zidane, Jeannie Longo, or even Tony Parker… Sports legends, France has a lot of them and one article would not be enough to name them all. However, it is indeed the ex-basketball player and ex-companion of Eva Longoria who was entitled to his “evening” this Friday, June 9. Indeed, “TP” was invited to Nice, at the National Sports Museum, to be inducted “sports legend”. The winner of the Euro in 2013 with France, joined Michel Platini and Marie-José Pérec.
A more than deserved entry for the four-time NBA champion with San Antonio and the first Blue selected for the All-Star Game in 2006. The American sporting event that brings together the best players of the current year, in which he has participated six times in total in 2007, 2009, 2012, 2013 and 2014. No one will say the opposite, Tony Parker is one of the greatest in French sport. And this success, he owes it to his dream as he explained during his speech this Friday, June 9.
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Believe in your dreams… a credo not French?
“When you talk about your dream to someone and they don’t give a damn about you… it’s because you’re not dreaming big enough. I’m going to repeat myself because she’s looking at me strangely there you see (he points a person from the public: editor’s note)”he began before repeating: “When you tell someone your dream and they don’t make fun of you, it’s because you’re not dreaming big enough! And so I was dreaming big”. Tony Parker explains that he thought to himself: “I want to become the first European point guard to succeed in the NBA”. Nothing could be more logical to give oneself strength and courage. However, following his statement, the 41-year-old ex-basketball player could not refrain from attacking the French.
“And when you’re in France, in a country where everyone is negative and they complain all the time and they want to go on strike… Imagine how they take my sentence!”he dropped, arousing the indignation of many twittos. “The last 8 seconds I want to take 99% of his fortune and give it back to public services”, “The speech was going well then you have the last 5 seconds”, “Mdrrr me who thought I was a case isolated by having trouble with him”they lamented.
A controversial speech, just a few weeks after the remarks made in “What an era” on France 2. During his visit to Léa Salamé, Tony Parker and David Ginola had spoken of the “jealousy of the French” towards people who earn a lot of money.
Hating Tony Parker over and over again… pic.twitter.com/UupGXvs7vI
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