Former Blue captain Céline Dumerc, Olympic vice-champion (2012) and European champion (2009), announced on Tuesday May 2 the end of her career at the end of this season with her Basket Landes club.
” End of suspense, this time I stop! “, Wrote on social networks the player, aged 40, a few hours before the quarter-final first leg of the French Championship that she must play with her team located in Mont-de-Marsan against Bourges.
” I feel like I have to stop here »
” I’m going to enjoy these last moments on the court, with you “, promises “Cap’s” who hangs up his sneakers with at least one title this season: the Coupe de France won ten days earlier against Asvel. The second in line.
Barely the 2022 edition won, the leader, also four times European vice-champion in blue, had surprised her world by announcing in full festivities on the ground that she was extending the adventure for a year.
But not this time. ” If I only spoke while listening to my heart, the love of this game would keep me going until eternity. But if I want to be honest with you, with me, I feel like I have to stop there. “Explains the one who became the best scorer in the history of the Women’s Basketball League in early April.
The rest is all found for Céline Dumerc who has already been manager of the French women’s team since 2020. ” We still have a quarter-final to play against Bourges, however, reminds the competitor on Tuesday. And why not more if we let ourselves be carried away by sweet dreams. »
The original Tarbaise, who made the great years of the Tango de Bourges, carried to six titles of champion of France, can collect an eighth personal national coronation and a second with Basket Landes after the sensation of 2021.
With AFP