Eight European U16 champions in France's next camp in U17 World Cup preparations
PARIS (FIBA U17 Basketball World Cup 2018) - France have put together a group of 18 players who will come together early next month for the next stage of preparations for the FIBA U17 Basketball World Cup.
PARIS (FIBA U17 Basketball World Cup 2018) - France have put together a group of 18 players who will come together early next month for the next stage of preparations for the FIBA U17 Basketball World Cup 2018.
France head coach Lamine Kebe has included eight of the players who helped France to the title at last summer's FIBA U16 European Championship 2017, including MVP Killian Hayes and star point guard Theo Maledon.
| France's preliminary roster for the FIBA U17 Basketball World Cup 2018 | |||
| Milan Barbitch | Hugo Besson | Alaa-eddine Boutayeb | Maxime Carene |
| Malcolm Cazalon | Timothe Crusol | Baptiste Defaux | Victor Diallo |
| Robin Ducote | Melvyn Ebonkoli | Zackarie El Arf | Samuel Eyango Dingo |
| Matthieu Gauzin | Killian Hayes | Theo Maledon | Yvann Mbaya |
| Essome Miyem | Lorenzo Thirouard | ||
The 18 players will meet from April 4-6 at INSEP headquarters in Paris for the next step of preparations for the U17 World Cup, which will run from June 30 to July 8 in Argentina.
France, who have been drawn into Group D with hosts Argentina, Croatia and the fourth placed team from the FIBA U16 Asian Championship, will later hold camps from May 29 to June 7 in Castelnau-le-Lez and June 15-21 in Voiron. The French, who will be competing in their fourth U17 World Cup, will play a preparation tournament June 8-10 and also have test games against Croatia on June 19 and 20.
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