Ambroise Couture, the former Caen BC registered in Euroleague
By Maxence Gorregues
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Of course, the information is anecdotal. But it still testifies to a trajectory towards the top level. Ambroise Couturenative of Cherbourg and who will celebrate his 20th birthday on November 8, 2022, is one of the few French people registered this season in Euroleague. This 2.01m 3/4 position has been defending the colors of Monaco since the summer of 2022. And he is on the list of players submitted by Monegasque leaders to the organizers of the prestigious European competition.
If he spends every weekend in the French U23 championship with the other young people of the principality, he was traveling to Paris this Sunday, October 16, 2022 with the pros, in Betclic Elite. Monaco won after an unprecedented match which took place at… Roland-Garros (91-95). The former Caennais did not come into play, but was able to get a little closer to the very high level.
A remarkable first match in Monaco
Ambroise Couture to start the shopping cart at 12 years old, on the side of Valognes in the English Channel. Present during a detection in Houlgate in Calvados, organized by the regional league of Normandy in 2014, he is identified by Herve Coudray, former coach of Caen Basket Calvados, now at the head of Le Havre. The technician appreciates the athletic qualities of the boy. It is proposed to integrate the Pôle espoir in Caen.
the here at the CBCwhere he remained for three years, before heading to the training center of Nanterre, emblematic team of Pro A. He then worked on his basket in Rouen, before discovering the championship of France Espoirs Pro A last season with Reims (33 games for 8 ,2 points, 3.4 rebounds and 19.3 minutes of playing time on average per game).
His coach then takes him in his suitcases to the Rock and makes him an executive player of the Espoirs, entrusting him with the controls of position 4. Despite a defeat at Nanterre at the opening of the championship at the end of September (96-78), his first under his new colors is noticed (30 points, 11 rebounds). On October 9, he participated in his team’s first success in four days, facing Gravelines (73-58), with 23 points and 10 rebounds. A Norman hope to watch…
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