It’s no secret that training young people has always been Bertrand Taczanowski’s hobbyhorse. For years, the president of Mulhouse Pfastatt BA has made it a point of honor that his graduates benefit from the best possible training conditions and may one day join the team one. In this case, at present, in N3, since that evolving in N1 has just taken its independence and changed its name to become the Mulhouse Basket Agglomération ( Alsace May 22, 2020).
“The workforce will be made up of players aged 17 to 24, with the exception of Damien Thibedore, who is 31,” said the manager. The departures of Gherick Uneau (en route) and Hugo Diehl were followed by the arrivals of Ugo Taczanowski and Valentin Tschamber (SIG, U18), who could also, like Anthony Spinali, integrate the MBA according to the needs of Jean-Luc Monschau.
Meanwhile, 40-year-old Mario Porter could either sign up for an additional season or join Team II (Division 1), whose goal is to make it to the Prenational within three seasons. “He gives himself time for reflection. It is out of the question to push him towards the exit: he is here at home, it is up to him to decide if he wants to continue or not. “
“Very talented, but also very young”
In the immediate future, Bertrand Taczanowski remains cautious when it comes to the next championship: “The group is very talented, but also very young. However, the debates promise to be high, with opponents like Poligny Jura or Jura Salins, not to mention the Bas-Rhinois as a whole, who apparently recruited by storm. The priority will therefore be to do the best possible and to ensure the maintenance. In any case, putting any pressure on players who, due to the coronavirus pandemic, will not have touched a ball for several months when they resume training is out of the question. It will be in mid-August, if all goes according to plan, with the start of the championship due in mid-September. “
So much for the immediate future of the MPBA. But its president sees further. Much further. With ideas and projects full of head. Still in this same training perspective, he intends to assemble a new U18 France team, the one hired in 2018-2019 could not be renewed, the FFBB having only allocated two places to the Grand Est in this competition, to the SIG and Gries.
“We will apply to the FFBB as soon as possible, when we can once again offer volunteers optimal working conditions,” insists Bertrand Taczanowski. And to mention another subject that is dear to him: the pursuit of studies in parallel with sport. “Young people must be able to attend school at the Schweitzer high school, while training at the Mulhouse regional sports center. This requires a partnership with M2A, which we will contact shortly. “
“With local players”
“The aim of the game is to set up a real training center, as do the Elite and Pro B clubs,” said the manager enthusiastically. “Above all with local players, thanks to a collaboration, now more essential than ever, with other local training clubs, such as Riedisheim or Illfurth. But also with players from abroad and more particularly from Bulgaria, Romania, Cameroon and the Central African Republic. “
These four countries were of course not chosen at random. “The basketball players of the first two generally have potential and benefit from being known. And those of the next two can be encouraged to come to our home by their compatriot Arthur Ekani and Johan Grebongo (Editor’s note: MBA players, born in Yaoundé and Bangui respectively) ”, specifies the Haut-Rhinois. “Such an approach could be done with the help of the federations concerned. Everyone would be a winner: the players, but also the club, since the said players would then benefit from JFL status (Editor’s note: locally trained player). “
Bertrand Taczanowski does not stop there. “We are also going to get closer to elementary schools in Pfastatt and Mulhouse and organize tournaments to encourage children to turn to basketball. As did Marcel Tschanz, one of the spearheads of MBC training with Bernard Kuhn, in the 80s, when he gathered young people in Haut Poirier and Montaigne, “notes the president of the MPBA, ensuring have “full” support from the municipalities concerned. “We want to develop our basketball school and win the federal label, a preamble necessary to obtain the training center label, by the end of the season. “
“And to carry out all these projects, we need properly trained supervisors. We are also working on it! “, He says in conclusion. “We plan to recruit a sports director and a technical director, at the latest next season. “
MPBA: M. Bertrand (21), M. Chichoki (18), R. Diebold (22), F. Kiowanis (18), T. Nesci (18), I. Soussi (24), A. Spinali (23 ), M. Taczanowski (22), U. Taczanowski (17), D. Thibedore (31), V. Tschamber (18), M. Porter (40)?.
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