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Time for Women
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Ilona Korstin, the face of the FIBA Europe Year of Women’s Basketball campaign, started playing basketball professionally in France with Bourges in 1997 and was voted French young player of 1999. She left France in 2003 to return to her native country, Russia, to continue her basketball career.Today the top professional league in France, the Ligue Féminine de BasketBall (LFB), is one of the best in Europe and attracts players from all over the world. Basketball news on the professional women's league can be found under: Basketball LFB News.
For a general insight on what "Women's basketball in France" is all about, this page will provide you with the following information:
who is who in the women’s game,
about their professional status, nationality and basketball roots and
all the essentials for being successful in the LFB
, NF1 (national féminine) and of course how to become a top basketball player in France.
On top you'll discover the procedures about
how to make a career in this sport starting often at junior level through the excellent youth development system.
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| Sandra Dijon playing basketball for Lattes Montpellier |
You will also learn more about
how and why the women have chosen to play basketball in France at different levels.
You will be able to read about
who is who in the clubs, who is playing where, which league,
what is their basketball background, and also
their off-court incentives that are just as important like youth development, nutrition, exercise and training methods and so on.
And you can get to know
the basketball history of the "basket féminin" and, of course,
you have a field day about the latest news on women playing basketball in France professionally, semi-professionally or on a amateur status
as well as news on the youth players and academies (centres de formation).
In addition there are
live match reports with after-match comments (when possible)
as well as audios in different languages and
occasionally reports in French,
plus a glossary of basketball terms.
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| All LFB players at the Basket and the City 3 |
Picture Credits:
1. Ilona Korstin womensbasketball-in-France.com (EuroBasket 2007)
2. Sandra Dijon Basquetbol.org (Open LFB 2007)
3. Group photo Ligue Féminine de BasketBall (Basket and the City 3)
| WBBiF Blog - What's New This blog about Women playing basketball in France. |
| LFB information: Ligue Féminine de BasketBall news from around the clubs Ligue Féminine de BasketBall: LFB information, articles and news pages. Links to EuroLeague Women and EuroCup Women stories concerning professional teams from France |
| Basketball News on women playing and having links to France Basketball news involving French National teams at all levels and covering information about French players abroad and foreign players who excelled in LFB or NF1 |
| LFB TV is the new video service of the LFB LFB TV made its first appearance during the Open LFB in October as trail. It is now available and 9 regular seasons basketball games, the semi-final and final series will be streamed |
| Women basketball players In France women basketball players find playing basketball a challenge. |
| Women playing basketball - Competition stucture in France A guide to the competition structure for women playing basketball in France |
| Women’s amateur basketball in France - Top amateur leagues (NF1,NF2,NF3) Information about women playing amateur basketball in the top leagues in France, NF1, NF2 and NF3 will be provided in this section. You will also be able to find information on youth basketball |
| WomensBasketBall-in-France site search page Site search is a facilty that helps you to find everything you need about womens basketball in France |
| Contact page This is the contact page for womensbasketball-in-france.com website |
