France : Basketball/ Isabelle Yacoubou ernds her career
Multiple medalist with the French team including the Olympic silver medal at the 2012 Olympics, Isabelle Yacoubou announces her retirement with immediate effect this Wednesday. A decision made following her injury at the end of January. The 37-year-old player is leaving the courts definitively, but remains with her club in Tarbes where she joins the staff.
Injured since a match in Charleville-Mézières on January 24th, Isabelle Yacoubou, 37, has decided to end her sports career. “Isabelle Yacoubou, a legend of French basketball, is ending her playing career following her injury sustained during the match in Charleville-Mézières on January 24th, despite an attempt at treatment and rehabilitation to be able to finish her season,” said Tarbes GB.
Certainly, we will no longer see this figure of basketball on the playing field but she will remain active within her club, where she joins the staff.
« She remains present on the sidelines during training sessions and home games, in preparation for her future role in the club as she will join the TGB staff next season », continued the club in its statement.
Isabelle Yacoubou had been playing for Tarbes since 2002, her training club, with whom she won the national title in 2010, a prelude to one of the greatest records in French basketball : four European medals and an Olympic one over the course of a career rich in 147 selections, but also two European cups (one Euroleague and one Eurocup) and seven national titles (two in France, four in Italy, and one in Spain).
Still as impactful in the paint, Yacoubou averaged 13.1 points and 9.7 rebounds in 9 LFB matches this season.
