Parker signs letter of engagement with French

[TMTTRIO]

http://www.fiba.com/pages/eng/fc/new...9829/arti.html

14/04/2009
FRA - Parker signs letter of engagement with French

PARIS (FFBB) - Tony Parker has committed to play for France through the summer of 2012.

The San Antonio Spurs point guard met with Patrick Beesley, the head of the men's basketball team, and sports manager Crawford Palmer before a recent game against Cleveland and signed a letter of engagement.

Other players counted on by national team boss Vincent Collet will also need to sign the letter of engagement in the coming weeks.

France will this summer attempt to win the Additional Qualifying Round for EuroBasket 2009 in Poland.

They will go up against Italy and Finland in Group B, with the side that finishes top to take on the winner of Group A - Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belgium or Portugal.


Good luck Tony and please stay healthy

[lefty]

Manu....

Now TP.........

Injuries injuries........

Spurs should have an all-American team

[timvp]

Parker should see how Manu's decision last summer came back to haunt the team and sit out.

[it's me]

Originally Posted by timvp

Parker should see how Manu's decision last summer came back to haunt the team and sit out.

A lot of people won’t agree… and will bring the…. who’s paying them the money and all that crap… but this is my personal point of view … what’s the point on being an elite athlete and not being able to represent your own country? Americans are so selfish sometimes…. I applaud Tony’s decision.

[Pauleta14]

Originally Posted by timvp

Parker should see how Manu's decision last summer came back to haunt the team and sit out.

Manu was already injured...

[kace]

Originally Posted by timvp

Parker should see how Manu's decision last summer came back to haunt the team and sit out.

the spurs only need to give him a full month more to rest before playing in the beginning of next RS (if french team plays the final tournament). that should be something doable.

[alchemist]

[DPG21920]

Originally Posted by Pauleta14

Manu was already injured...

Bingo. Tony is not injured. I had no problem with the fact Manu wanted to play for his country; I had a problem he wanted to play for his country hurt.

[baseline bum]

[sonic21]

Originally Posted by TMTTRIO

http://www.fiba.com/pages/eng/fc/new...9829/arti.html

14/04/2009
FRA - Parker signs letter of engagement with French

PARIS (FFBB) - Tony Parker has committed to play for France through the summer of 2012.

The San Antonio Spurs point guard met with Patrick Beesley, the head of the men's basketball team, and sports manager Crawford Palmer before a recent game against Cleveland and signed a letter of engagement.

Other players counted on by national team boss Vincent Collet will also need to sign the letter of engagement in the coming weeks.

France will this summer attempt to win the Additional Qualifying Round for EuroBasket 2009 in Poland.

They will go up against Italy and Finland in Group B, with the side that finishes top to take on the winner of Group A - Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belgium or Portugal.


Good luck Tony and please stay healthy

good news

[Allanon]

There is a huge cultural and nationalistic rift between the US athletes/fans and athletes/fans from other countries. One side will never understand the other side's stance.

[EricB]

Originally Posted by it's me

A lot of people won’t agree… and will bring the…. who’s paying them the money and all that crap… but this is my personal point of view … what’s the point on being an elite athlete and not being able to represent your own country? Americans are so selfish sometimes…. I applaud Tony’s decision.

First off fuck you and your "americans are so horrible" fucking bullshit.

Second off, the arguement is CORRECT.

Third off, the fucker wasn't even BORN there, and NEITHER OF HIS PARENTS ARE FRENCH.


Like Marcus Bryant said and I agree, no more offseason bullshit.


Now he will come into camp next year tired, hurt, and the SPurs will have to deal with that horseshit, all for a good for nothing country no one gives a shit about.

[MaNuMaNiAc]

Where the fuck is ducks, is what I want to know.

[EricB]

Originally Posted by sonic21

good news

Yeah fantastic, while hes hurt and out for two months because he got hurt playing for these fuckers, and the Spurs struggle while STILL paying him his 14 million.

Just fan fucking tastic news.

[lefty]

Originally Posted by Allanon

There is a huge cultural and nationalistic rift between the US athletes/fans and athletes/fans from other countries. One side will never understand the other side's stance.

I do, because I'm form the other side of the Atlantic, but at the same time, I 'm a hardcore Spurs fan.

[Brazil]

Originally Posted by DPG21920

Bingo. Tony is not injured. I had no problem with the fact Manu wanted to play for his country; I had a problem he wanted to play for his country hurt.

+1

Besides everytime TP had some health issues, he showed a cautious behavior.

Nevertheless I've never complained about the fact Manu tried to play for his country, Spurs already knew signing Manu that he will never abandon the Argentina team in particular for the Olympics. With Manu we have to accept the crazy stuff he does sometimes and the fact he wants to play for Argentina. It's take him or leave him.

[ploto]

The worst part of this summer for Tony is that France has to play in an additional qualifying tournament just to try to get to EuroBasket and then still play in that tournament both in the same summer. And history shows that even a hang nail and Tony will be back in SA being seen by the Spurs physicians.

[MaNuMaNiAc]

Originally Posted by EricB

First off fuck you and your "americans are so horrible" fucking bullshit.

Second off, the arguement is CORRECT.

Third off, the fucker wasn't even BORN there, and NEITHER OF HIS PARENTS ARE FRENCH.


Like Marcus Bryant said and I agree, no more offseason bullshit.


Now he will come into camp next year tired, hurt, and the SPurs will have to deal with that horseshit, all for a good for nothing country no one gives a shit about.

aaah there's the complete fucking asshole we've all come to expect from TPark...

Just a thing... GO FUCK YOURSELF YOU ARROGANT TUB OF LARD!

aaah... there, that's better

[sonic21]

Originally Posted by EricB

Yeah fantastic, while hes hurt and out for two months because he got hurt playing for these fuckers, and the Spurs struggle while STILL paying him his 14 million.

Just fan fucking tastic news.

first i'm french, so fuck you too .
and he hasn't won anything with the french NT, so you can understand why it's important for him to play.

[timvp]

Parker has a ton of miles on him at 26. He's going to be broken down by 30 unless he start resting in the summers. Olympics I can understand but not every scrub tournament every summer.

[kace]

Originally Posted by EricB

Third off, the fucker wasn't even BORN there, and NEITHER OF HIS PARENTS ARE FRENCH.

Tony spent all his life in France and always had the french nationality. you can't be more french. the fact that he's born in Belgium has nothing to do with that (his father played for a belgian basketball team then but his family came in France when Tony was three weeks old)

[ploto]

Originally Posted by timvp

Parker has a ton of miles on him at 26. He's going to be broken down by 30 unless he start resting in the summers. Olympics I can understand but not every scrub tournament every summer.

The problem is they could not even qualify for EuroBasket last summer. They need Tony to try to even get there.

[kace]

Originally Posted by timvp

Parker has a ton of miles on him at 26. He's going to be broken down by 30 unless he start resting in the summers. Olympics I can understand but not every scrub tournament every summer.

do you know how you get qualified for the Olympics in Europe ??

[Agloco]

Originally Posted by EricB

First off fuck you and your "americans are so horrible" fucking bullshit.

Second off, the arguement is CORRECT.

Third off, the fucker wasn't even BORN there, and NEITHER OF HIS PARENTS ARE FRENCH.


Like Marcus Bryant said and I agree, no more offseason bullshit.


Now he will come into camp next year tired, hurt, and the SPurs will have to deal with that horseshit, all for a good for nothing country no one gives a shit about.

Originally Posted by EricB

Yeah fantastic, while hes hurt and out for two months because he got hurt playing for these fuckers, and the Spurs struggle while STILL paying him his 14 million.

Just fan fucking tastic news.

I've gotta agree with T-Park here. Business is business. You've got a contractual obligation to your employer. If you're going to accept millions, there needs to be some concessions on the players part. The country you're being paid in is irrelevant. Tau has every right to be upset about Splitter if he runs off to play for Brazil, just like the Spurs do with Tony.

I do think that we are naturally biased towards our own national teams however. I don't recall anyone bitching when Timmy played for the US team. I think more would be cheering for Parker if he was playing for the US national team.

[timvp]

Originally Posted by ploto

The problem is they could not even qualify for EuroBasket last summer. They need Tony to try to even get there.

If they can't qualify without him, Parker should realize his team is never going to amount to anything.

[DAF86]

Originally Posted by TMTTRIO

http://www.fiba.com/pages/eng/fc/new...9829/arti.html

14/04/2009
FRA - Parker signs letter of engagement with French

PARIS (FFBB) - Tony Parker has committed to play for France through the summer of 2012.

The San Antonio Spurs point guard met with Patrick Beesley, the head of the men's basketball team, and sports manager Crawford Palmer before a recent game against Cleveland and signed a letter of engagement.

Other players counted on by national team boss Vincent Collet will also need to sign the letter of engagement in the coming weeks.

France will this summer attempt to win the Additional Qualifying Round for EuroBasket 2009 in Poland.

They will go up against Italy and Finland in Group B, with the side that finishes top to take on the winner of Group A - Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belgium or Portugal.


Good luck Tony and please stay healthy

Can somebody tell me how with the amount of talent that France has, they've never done too well? they should be fighting for championships in all the events they participate.