Nearly 27,000 spectators encouraged the Blues against Turkey on Saturday night at Stade Pierre Mauroy. Never seen in Europe for a basketball game, which did not leave the players in the France team insensitive …
26 135 spectators, a new record in Europe! Never a basketball game was on the Old Continent, meeting as many people as the eighth final between Team France and Turkey (76-53). The bet of the federation, who had chosen to organize the second phase of the Euro 2015 in Pierre Mauroy Villeneuve d’Ascq stadium usually dedicated to football, is already successful. And now that the Blues are in quarters, it is quite possible that their next match, against Latvia, to do even more full.
Tony Parker and his teammates, accustomed to the NBA or sometimes overheated rooms Euroleague, have seen others. But then the atmosphere was still “beautiful, amazing” , in the words of Vincent Collet. “They are numerous and increasingly, they are noisy! , ignites Rudy Gobert. In Montpellier, it was already good, but there … When you see the room, it is awesome! Many times La Marseillaise fell grandstands, the flags movements were conditioned for 40 minutes.
“We had chills , recognizes Nicolas Batum. We were a little tense at first. We spoke with Tony: it was nice to play in the NBA, it’s different. It was quite different, quite particular. But now we had that. We’re going to continue to work and play well without this pressure then “ Nando De Colo, a native of Pas-de-Calais, was also surprised by the fervor of” his “audience. “In the end, when the match was folded, I’ve realized that the stadium was sublime with all those tricolors.”
“Everyone is here to The french team. People come from all over France to support us , relishing the back of the Blues. When we had difficult moments in the first half, the stadium was behind us. It’s awesome ! We did not used to playing in front of so many fans in Europe or even in the NBA. But we knew how to be focused to handle it. “ Next Tuesday, Latvians thus should expect to take a blue tide, white, red came span. And, hopefully, parquet floors.
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