It is time for Steeve Ho you fat to hang up the sneakers, after 16 seasons in pro in France and a bar of 13 games in Iceland. The Guyanese completes the last chapter of his long player as a player. A journey strewn with pitfalls during which he could only have reached on himself to win in the French basketball landscape.
For two hours, the interested party returned with us on his journey: from his beginnings in Guyana to the training center in Cholet, which marks the beginning of a striking decade in Pro B and brings it to the Grail: a final of Betclic Elite with the Metropolitans 92 led by Victor Wembanyama. Before ending with a last exotic dance for his only experience abroad.
Guyana, the first kilometers up to the high level
Born in Cayenne, in French Guiana, Steeve Ho You Fat could very well have missed out on her vocation. He starts basketball late, at almost 14 years old. Son of a basketball player, his father is first reluctant to what he practices basketball and prefers him judoka. “My father found this sport vicious, with a lot of low blows”, depicts the interior to our microphone.
He is finally spotted by Murielle Joseph, a local coach who sees in him potential and who pushes him to try the orange ball. The young Steeve Ho You Fat starts the bush school and claims to go and play with friends to escape and try this sport from which he knows nothing. His new passion takes on a new dimension when Cholet Basket is organizing a training camp in Guyana. “” “My parents agreed that I participate on condition: that I manage on my own. ” This is how he decides to get up every morning at 4:30 am to travel 20 km on foot to go to the camp, and rebelle at the end of the day.
-“I had to leave Guyana, that something happens in my life, otherwise I fell into drugs with friends”
At that time, Steeve Ho You Fat did not yet dream of NBA and big wages. Basketball is still a simple hobby, which widens its horizons of thought and allows it to get out of the routine: “Basketball gave me a goal. For once, I had something to do ”. The test is conclusive and he is then received a proposal, more than 7,000 km from his home. A non-back for the young man, determined to announce to his parents that his decision is already made. He exports to the metropolis before blowing out his 14 candles.
