Céline Dumerc, former captain of the France team, will retire at the end of the season

The former captain of the Blue Céline Dumerc, Olympic vice-champion in 2012 and European champion in 2009, announced on his social networks, Tuesday, May 2, the end of his career at the end of the season. “End of suspense, this time I’m stopping!”wrote on social networks the leaderaged 40, a few hours before the quarter-final first leg of the French championship that she must play with her Basket Landes team against Bourges.

The left-hander from Tarbes, in the south-west of France, became a legend of French basketball this season, becoming the top scorer in the history of the Women’s League. A record among so many others : seven titles of champion of France, seven times winner of the Coupe de France, a victory in the women’s Eurocup with Bourges in 2016, and a title of European champion in 2009 with the Blue.

A prolonged end of career

She had announced her retirement two years earlier. But this time, the most capped player in the history of the France team (262 selections), women and men alike, seems determined to hang up the sneakers at the end of the season. “If I only spoke while listening to my heart, the love of this game would carry me on to eternityshe admits on her Instagram account. But if I want to be honest with you, with me, I feel like I have to stop there..” However, thehe future of Céline Dumerc, current general manager of the France team, should not be written far from the parquet floors.