He is a prestigious guest who we did not necessarily expect to see at the Astroballe, but the former Prime Minister, Lionel Jospin, came to attend, this Friday evening, the Euroleague match between Asvel and Panathinaikos Greeks, on behalf of the 26 day.
In the gallery with the mayor of Villeurbanne Cédric Van Styvendael and the president of the club Tony Parker, the former presidential candidate, who retired from political life in 2002, is himself a former basketball player.
“I did more than ten years of competition, at university, in the army… I stopped beyond thirty when I took on responsibilities at the PS, which prohibited me from be free for the Saturday afternoon matches,” he confided in 1999 to Eurosport, which had given him a Chicago Bulls jersey for the occasion, flocked in his name with the famous number 23 of Michael Jordan. He had also commented on the NBA for Bein Sports.
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