In Basket Landes, we did not give in American fashion, as Bourges can sometimes do, to remove the jersey number when a player particularly marked her footprint her passage to Mont-de-Marsan. And we will not give in, in any case not as long as Marie-Laure Lafargue is around. “We do not practice this policy because we pay tribute to the players in another way. The emblematic players, with us, we display them in the room. These are those who spent at least four years with us and that is increasingly rare and we attach importance to this fidelity. »»
Among these, some have sometimes had to adapt and change their habits, like Miranda Ayim (2015-2021). “At the beginning, she had the 9th. She was very attached to this issue which she had been carrying since her university years. But when Céline Dumerc arrived (in 2016, editor’s note), she herself sold her number to leave him to Céline who had always had the 9 and who was not going to ask to change, all the same! »»
Miranda Ayim with number 21
archive Pascal Bats/SO
-Another player to trade on the 9th for another issue, the Spanish Queralt Casas (2016-2018). “Queralt asked Julie Barennes, who stopped her player career, to take her 10.” Asked the current Landes basketball coach, who often worn this 10, like the other family members of her family.
Anaïs Le Gluher, it was 8. “For two, three years after the end of her career, no one dared to take it,” recalls Marie-Laure Lafargue. Until the arrival of a Serbian medical joker, Nevena Jovanovic in December 2020, who did not know the Nantes and her aura in Mont-de-Marsan. “Anaïs gave her the jersey herself and asking her to be up to the club. What she did! She even returned, always as a medical joker, always with the 8th and always by responding. »»
And then there is on the 13th, special number among individuals. “When the numbers went from 5 to 15, no one wanted it!” Today, Sistine (Macquet, Editor’s note) carries it after asking for it. No one has challenged him, and obviously it suits him! »»
