Basketball: former French international Ludovic Vaty is dead

Basketball former French international Ludovic Vaty is dead

Former international basketball player Ludovic Vaty, who had to interrupt his high-level career in 2013 due to cardiovascular disease, is dead, the French Basketball Federation announced on Friday. “It is with deep sadness that the players of the French team and his staff learned of the death of Ludovic Vaty on Thursday, at the age of 34,” said the FFBB in a press release. The pivot with nine selections with the Blues had been placed in a coma after a heart attack which occurred on Tuesday during training with his amateur club TOAC Toulouse (N2, 4th div.). “Like the rest of the France group, I was particularly shocked to learn this terrible news. Ludovic, with Nicolas Batum, was an essential player within an 88-89 generation which marked the history of French basketball (European U16 champions, editor’s note)”, comments the president of the Federation Jean-Pierre Siutat. , quoted in the press release.

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