It is an understatement to say that the off-season seemed long to some at the TGB. Even if the resumption of training took place throughout the summer at the Palais des Sports du Quai de l’Adour, it is now time for serious things, the resumption of the championship. This Saturday the Violettes receive Landerneau, whom they met in playdowns last season. This time the ambition is to aim for the playoffs, thanks to the “French Team” composed by François Gomez. This is the first time in history that in LFB a team will only have French players.
The return “home” of Yacoubou
In the workforce of the TGB 2022/2023, the attraction is obviously the return ofIsabelle Yacoubou, pivot of the last decade in the France team (147 selections, 2009 European champion, 2012 Olympic vice-champion). A return “at home” confides the player, very close to coach François Gomez, but also for the club’s project: “As I say, I’m an old gamer, but still a gamer! My contribution I hope beyond just the athlete, to help the players to progress… I am thinking of Ana Tadic for example, who stayed at the club because I was arriving, for me it would be a great success to help her and all the others, that they grow in contact with me“.
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She will therefore be the headliner of a 100% French team with the neo-international Ana Tadic, who participated this summer in the World this summer in Australia. A World Cup than her teammate Mary Pardon followed very closely, on the spot, just after being removed from the group at the last moment. You have to add Carla Leitethe leader arriving from Lyon and international U18, Yohana Ewodorevelation of last season and in the France U23 team or even Serena Kesslerwho after two years of healing injuries is coming back very revengeful and with great potential.
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Goal playoffs
Marie Pardon, co-captain with Isabelle Yacoubou this season, does not hide: “To everyone who asks I say we want to be champions! We have nothing to lose, why start by saying we are outsiders or something else, we have the weapons to fight, win as many matches as possible and we will see where it takes us“. An ambition that François Gomez sums up differently: “We would like to be itchy, leave the last four places, play the playoffs with a certain ambition, that is to say not as a victim to be knocked out in the first round.“.
It will therefore start with the reception of Landerneau, before in particular, from the 3rd day, to rub shoulders with Bourges. Then there will be a perilous sequence against ASVEL at the Quai de l’Adour then Basket Landes in the process, at the beginning of December. The second leg of the South West Derby will take place in mid-March.
The TGB pro team for the 2022/2023 season
- #0 – Carla Leite
18 years old, 1m75, leader-back, comes from ASVEL - #2 – Marie-Paule Fopossi, 22 years old, 1m85, inside-pivot, arrives from Rhode Island (NCAA)
- #4 – Isabelle Yacoubou
36 years old, 1m90, pivot, arrived from Bourges - #5 – Marie Pardon, 21 years old, 1m78, leader
- #6 – Serena Kessler, 20, 1m79, fullback
- #7 – Clémentine Samson, 31 years old, 1m81, back
- #8 – Yohana Ewodo, 21 years old, 1m82, winger
- #15 – Ana Tadic
24 years old, 1m95, inside-pivot
Players from the training center integrated into the pro group
- #9 – Léna Monasse, 17 years old, 1m74, full-back
- #11 – Lou Bobst
17 years old, 1m75, leader - #12 – Julie Popescu, 19 years old, 1m74, fullback
- #20 – Logann Monkolot, 17 years old, 1m93, indoor
- #25 – Morgane Rondet, 19 years old, 1m85, inside pivot