The 3×3 French is growing. After Toulouse and Bordeaux (which depend on an association), a new professional team was officially launched this May 5 in Nassim Mountassif, 22. Her name is the Cheverny Swish basketball team.
Drive by the sports company 3×3 France Academy, vocational training will train at the Bignon sports complex in Nantes. It will be made up of young talents Pierre Kouakou (West Lyonnais, NM2), Joran Hamon (Toac, NM2), Aurélien Konan (Juvisy, NM3), Ambroise Couture (Monaco, NM3), Harouna Coulibaly (Boulazac, Espoirs Pro B) and a last player to come.
Jérôme Navier at the controls
This new team will be coached by Jérôme Navier, former coach of Cholet, Strasbourg and Le Havre in particular, and will initially explore the secondary circuit. “” Our goal is to integrate a tournament from the FIBA 3X3 world Tour Master in the FIBA circuit tournament “, Aims at Nassim Mountassif, the creator of the team.
-« The 3×3 gives opportunities that I will never have thought of living in traditional basketball. When you think about it it is a chance to be able to compete in these tournaments on the other side of the world, the 3×3 has this ability to make you live these experiences and also shake up in your habits Adds Ambroise Couture, former resident of the AS Monaco training center, in an interview with the FFBB.
A budget of 500,000 euros for the launch
A few days after its creation, Cheverny will compete, thanks to an invitation, the first challenger in its history in Hongcheon (South Korea), on Friday, 9 and Saturday 10 May. A stage in the secondary circuit of the “3×3 World Tour” FIBA qualifying for the Masters of Vienna.
After a second tournament in South Korea then a visit to China, the team will return to the French circuit to continue its ascent. A budget of 500,000 euros has been allocated to launch, and new partnerships are expected to support the long -term project.
