A new phenomenon in world basketball, Victor Wembanyama has loved football “always”. The native of Yvelines (PSG supporter) started as a goalkeeper.
Victor Wembanyama back in Paris. After his spectacular first season in the NBA, with the San Antonio Spurs, the new basketball phenomenon is obviously preparing for the next Olympic Games in Paris 2024. He will also return not for one match but for two regular season posters with his team. Texas to challenge the Indiana Pacers, January 23 and 25, 2025, in Bercy. Perhaps he will not have time to return to the Parc des Princes for a match of his favorite team, PSG.
A native of Chesnay (Yvelines), not far from Saint-Germain-en-Laye, “Wemby” has always been passionate about football. Before taking up basketball at the age of 7, the now 2.24-year-old started out as a goalkeeper. “The player I followed the most was Manuel Neuer, the goalkeeper of Bayern and the German team. Because when I played football, I was a goalkeeper. He was my favorite player. Idol is a bit exaggerated because I also really liked Ronaldinho”he had fun in The Parisian in 2022.
Wembanyama in the footsteps of Mbappé
After his year at Asvel in 2021-2022, Wembanyama decided to join the Metropolitans 92, based in Levallois-Perret, to become the big star of the French championship. This allowed him to regularly go to the Parc des Princes to support the Rouge et Bleu led by Kylian Mbappé. “It’s an almost weekly event for me to come and see PSG”he confided.
Wembanyama had thus mentioned, always at Parisianhis first meetings with the prodigy from Bondy: “We are both young, from the same generation and we are each trying to accomplish things in our sport. But we both have to write our own story and for him as for me, even if he’s got a little head start, it’s only just beginning. Many things are still to be written and I hope that, for him as well as for me, the pages will be beautiful”.
