While the 2023 Basketball World Cup is being held in Asia from August 25 to September 10, 2023, the France team has already been eliminated from the competition. There are still three games to play for the Blues.
Massive blow for the France team! Presented by The Team Among the favorites for the 2023 Basketball World Cup, Vincent Collet’s band is already eliminated from the race for the final stages… The surprising Latvia overthrew the Blues despite a disbursement of 10 points five minutes from the final whistle . The Habs’ medal hopes are already gone by adding this result to the correction received against Canada in the opening match.
If France is already eliminated, it still has three games to play. A final group stage against Lebanon, Tuesday August 29 at 11:45 a.m., and two classification matches (17th and 32nd places) on August 31 and September 2. The best possible result, 17th, will nevertheless be a huge disappointment less than a year from the Paris Olympic Games. The returns to the selection of executives such as captain Nicolas Batum or Nando De Colo (excluded against Latvia) will not have allowed the French team to confirm the last two podiums gleaned in this competition in 2014 and 2019. Victor Wembanyama will be even more expected as the savior of the Blues in 2024 after this early elimination. Other players could strengthen the team like Thomas Heurtel, left out of the selection because of his choice to play in Russia, or Joel Embiid, the last MVP in NBA who because of a triple nationality can choose the USA, France or Cameroon as their national team.
Here is the schedule of the Blues for the first group stage:
- Canada- France : defeat Friday August 25 at 3:30 p.m.
- France – Latvia: defeat on Sunday August 27 at 3:30 p.m.
- Lebanon – France : Tuesday August 29 at 11:45 a.m.
The schedule of the Blues for the classification matches:
- Thursday August 31: match against the third or fourth in group G (Côte d’Ivoire and Iran probably).
- Saturday, September 2: classification match against the third or fourth in group G (Côte d’Ivoire and Iran probably).
With this early elimination of France, the picture clears up for the underdog teams to a medal. The United States remain the favorites for gold, but nations like Canada, Spain, Germany and Slovenia also have big ambitions. The first group stage will end on Wednesday, August 30. A second group stage will then be held from August 31 to September 3 before the start of the quarter-finals on September 5 until the final on Sunday September 10.
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All the meetings are broadcast by the pay channel bein Sports. The Blues posters will be broadcast in full by BeIN Sports. FIBA offers a paid streaming service, Courtside 1891to view all the matches of the competition.
This Basketball World Cup started on August 25 and will end on September 10, 2023.
This 2023 World Cup takes place in three Asian countries: Indonesia (Jakarta), Japan (Okinawa) and the Philippines (Manila). The final stages will be played in Manila.
The draw for the FIBA World Cup 2023 took place on Saturday April 29, 2023 with an affordable pool for the Blues.
Group A (Manila, Araneta Coliseum):
- Angola
- Dominican Republic
- Philippines
- Italy
Group B (Manila, Araneta Coliseum):
- South Sudan
- Serbia
- People’s Republic of China
- Porto Rico
Group C (Manila, Mall of Asia Arena):
- UNITED STATES
- Jordan
- New Zealand
- Greece
Group D (Manila, Mall of Asia Arena):
- Egypt
- Mexico City
- Montenegro (Qualified)
- Lithuania (Qualified)
Group E (Okinawa, Okinawa Arena):
- Australia
- Japan
- Germany (qualified)
- Finland
Group F (Okinawa, Okinawa Arena):
- Slovenia
- Green cap
- Georgia
- Venezuela
Group G (Jakarta, Indonesia Arena):
- Spain
- Islamic Republic of Iran
- Ivory Coast
- Brazil
Group H (Jakarta, Indonesia Arena):
- Canada (Qualified)
- France
- Latvia (Qualified)
- Lebanon
The first group stage of the Basketball World Cup takes place from August 25 to 30 with 48 matches in just five days! A second round will then take place with 32 posters before the final stages.
Friday August 25
- Angola- Italy : 67-81
- Finland – Australia : 72-98
- Mexico – Montenegro : 71-91
- Latvia – Lebanon: 109-70
- Dominican Republic – Philippines: 87-91
- Germany – Japan: 81-63
- Egypt – Lithuania : 67-93
- Canada – France: 95-65
Saturday August 26
- South Sudan – Porto Rico : 96-101
- Green cap – Georgia : 60-85
- Jordan – Greece : 71-92
- Iran- Brazil : 59-100
- Slovenia – Venezuela: 100-85
- Serbia – China: 105-63
- UNITED STATES – New Zealand: 99-72
- Spain – Ivory Coast: 94-64
Sunday August 27
- Italy – Dominican Republic : 82-87
- Australia – Germany : 82-85
- Montenegro – Egypt: 89-74
- Lebanon – Canada : 73-128
- Philippines- Angola : 70-80
- Japan – Finland: 98-88
- Lithuania – Mexico: 96-66
- France – Latvia : 86-88
Monday August 28
- China – South Sudan : 69-89
- Venezuela- Green cap : 75-81
- New Zealand – Jordan: 95-87
- Ivory Coast – Iran: 71-69
- Georgia – Slovenia : 67-88
- Porto Rico – Serbia : 77-94
- Greece – United States: 2:40 p.m.
- Brazil – Spain: 3:30 p.m.
Tuesday August 29
- Germany – Finland: 9.30 a.m.
- Angola – Dominican Republic: 10:00 a.m.
- Egypt – Mexico: 10:45 a.m.
- Lebanon – France : 11:45 a.m.
- Australia – Japan: 1:10 p.m.
- Philippines – Italy: 2:00 p.m.
- Montenegro – Lithuania: 2.30 p.m.
- Canada – Latvia: 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday August 30
- South Sudan – Serbia: 10:00 a.m.
- Georgia – Venezuela: 10:00 a.m.
- United States – Jordan: 10:40 a.m.
- Ivory Coast – Brazil: 11:45 a.m.
- Slovenia – Cape Verde: 1:30 p.m.
- China – Puerto Rico: 2:00 p.m.
- Greece – New Zealand: 2:40 p.m.
- Iran – Spain: 3:30 p.m.
Thursday August 31
- 3rd in group A – 4th in group B
- 3rd in group B – 4th in group A
- 3rd in group C – 4th in group D
- 3rd in group D – 4th in group C
- 3rd in group E – 4th in group F
- 3rd in group F – 4th in group E
- 3rd in group G – 4th in group H
- 3rd in group H – 4th in group G
Friday, September 1
- 1st in group A – 2nd in group B
- 1st in group B – 2nd in group A
- 1st in group C – 2nd in group D
- 1st in group D – 2nd in group C
- 1st in group E – 2nd in group F
- 1st in group F – 2nd in group E
- 1st in group G – 2nd in group H
- 1st in group H – 2nd in group G
Saturday September 2
- 4th in group A – 4th in group F
- 3rd in group A – 3rd in group B
- 4th in group C – 4th in group D
- 3rd in group C – 3rd in group D
- 4th in group E – 4th in group F
- 3rd in group E – 3rd in group F
- 4th in group G – 4th in group H
- 3rd in group G – 3rd in group H
Sunday September 3
- 2nd in group A – 2nd in group B
- 1st of group A – 1st of group B
- 2nd in group C – 2nd in group D
- 1st in group C – 1st in group D
- 2nd in group E – 2nd in group F
- 1st of group E – 1st of group F
- 2nd in group G – 2nd in group H
- 1st in group G – 1st in group H
Tuesday, September 5
Wednesday, September 6
Thursday, September 7
- Classification matches (5-8)
Friday, September 8
Saturday September 9
- Classification matches (5-6)
Sunday September 10
- Small final (match for 3rd place)
- Final
France has never won the Basketball World Cup. The most successful nation is the United States and formerly Yugoslavia.
- 2019: Spain
- 2014: United States
- 2010: United States
- 2006: Spain
- 2002: Yugoslavia
- 1998: Yugoslavia
- 1994: United States
- 1990: Yugoslavia
- 1986: United States
- 1982: USSR
- 1978: Yugoslavia
- 1974: USSR
- 1970: Yugoslavia
- 1967: USSR
- 1963: Brazil
- 1959: Brazil
- 1954: United States
- 1950: Argentina