We must remember the beautiful things! Basket Landes is twenty years old this fall and in two decades the club has become a key player in French and continental Basketball. Eyres Moncube, 350 inhabitants south of St Sever. If you're not careful you won't see the basketball court when you cross the town even at twenty miles an hour! Eyres Moncube, cornfields, a church, a basketball club. It all starts from there. And in the fall of 2004, against all those who put obstacles in the way of the Basket Landes project, it took off. Seven climbs in total in eight seasons. Four years later the club led by Laffargue and Christian Lecomte reached the highest level of French women's orange ball. Crazy bet, bet won! A story. Beautiful and strong. 2011, first European adventure. For five years qualification in the Euroleague. A decade at continental level, a French championship title, two cups consecutively. 2004 is prehistory, you might believe it! However…yet to achieve in just twenty years what Basket Landes has achieved is almost a miracle. Yet… yet, the club has been established in Mitterrand since 2015, is filling, pushing the walls in the face of demand, is stabilized and financially healthy, is attractive, attracts international players. Mapi Duhau, Mireille Lalanne, Nelly Fargues, Marion Laborde, Anaïs Le Gluher, the great veterans made the club. Without Basket Landes ever forgetting its roots. The wages of his success.
At the end of the suspense. So, Basket wins by a very small point which is worth the gold of the Incas and the treasure of Rackham the Red. This victory is worth an unprecedented ticket for the second round of the Euroleague. Something crazy, in fact, this meeting. The blue ones were scared….blue! Everything starts well though. Quiet like Basil, Julie Barennes' daughters are gaining the upper hand. The match is at a good pace. 25-14 at the end of the first quarter. The sequel is not masterful but the game is lively, exciting and packed with full Mitterrand. However, we feel that things are gradually becoming dull among the Landes blades. Salamanca takes advantage and comes back to six points with its strong duo in the orange ball, the Puerto Rican leader Arella Guirantes and the former Spaniard of BL, the great Laura Gil. Well, 40-32 with lemons, we think the deal is almost done. Except that… despite Lacan, Geiselsoder and Djaldi-Tabdi, BL hiccups. On both sides it is a festival of intentions, a feast of clumsiness. In a very offensive recital. Then it plays small arm in the last quarter. Salamanca returns. Forty-five seconds from time, 59-56. BL has only scored four points since the quarter restarted. 59-58. There are eight interminable seconds left. Then deliverance. It will be said that only victory is beautiful. And this team definitely has heart.
And information communicated at the end of the match by the club management. Samantha FUEHRING, at BL since the 2023-2024 season, has made known her wish to end her contract for personal convenience. The club and the player reached an agreement. From Sunday against Chartres, she will be replaced in the squad by Kourtney TREFFERS, a Dutch international well known to Julie Barennes, herself a former coach of the Netherlands national team. Arriving in France this Tuesday, she satisfied the administrative and medical qualification procedures. This 30-year-old post 4 has passed through Spain, Poland, Italy and even Belgium
