Less than a year from the Paris Olympics, the French team begins the 2023 Basketball World Cup against Canada. The Blues are among the favourites. Here’s everything you need to know about the competition.
The 2023 Basketball World Cup has begun! The Finland-Australia and Angola-Italy meetings opened the ball for an edition that promises to be very undecided. The France team will have a lot to do from its first match this Friday, August 25, 2023 at 3:30 p.m. against Canada and its seven players playing in the NBA. The Blues are among the favorites for this competition as bronze medalists of the last edition in China, Olympic vice-champions in Tokyo and European vice-champions in Berlin.
Despite Victor Wembanyama’s withdrawal, the French team can count on the return of major players Nicolas Batum and Nando De Colo. Vincent Collet, the coach, does not consider himself embarrassed by the status of his team, placed among the favorites of the competition by the followers. With L’Équipe, he confided that he “would like to prove right to all those who think that we are part of the teams that can be world champions.” The course of the Blues will be scrutinized very closely less than a year from the Paris Olympic Games.
The French basketball team arrives in Asia with the desire to win the title and do better than a third place. In the last two editions (2014 and 2019), the Blues have failed at the gates of the final. They obviously want to play a final in a World Cup. They also want to mark the occasion one year before the Olympic Games which will be played at home. The tricolors have this objective in sight which is their priority. Evan Fournier and Rudy Gobert’s gang will be among the title contender nations along with Spain, Argentina and the United States, who will arrive with a team without their NBA stars, but with great clients like Anthony. Edwards.
Here is the schedule of the Blues for the first group stage:
A second group stage will then be held from August 31 to September 3 before the start of the quarter-finals on September 5 until the final on Sunday September 10.
All the matches are broadcast by the pay channel beIN Sports. The Blues posters will be broadcast in full by BeIN Sports for the group stages and co-broadcast from the quarter-finals by the Qatari media and France Télévisions. FIBA offers a paid streaming service, Courtside 1891, to watch all matches in the competition.
This Basketball World Cup started on August 25 and will end on September 10, 2023.
This 2023 World Cup takes place in three Asian countries: Indonesia (Jakarta), Japan (Okinawa) and the Philippines (Manila). The final stages will be played in Manila.
The FIBA ??Basketball World Cup 2023 draw took place on Saturday April 29, 2023 with an affordable pool for the Blues.
Group A (Manila, Araneta Coliseum):
Group B (Manila, Araneta Coliseum):
Group C (Manila, Mall of Asia Arena):
Group D (Manila, Mall of Asia Arena):
The first group stage of the Basketball World Cup is held from August 25 to 30 with 48 matches in just five days! A second round will then take place with 32 posters before the final stages.
France has never won the Basketball World Cup. The most successful nation is the United States and formerly Yugoslavia.
