Basket-Ball : The confidences of Fadilou Alassane

In an interview with Golfe TV Africa, ASPAC basketball player Fadilou Alassane looks back on his debut, his desires and fears.

With a height of 1m 91, the adventure of the port club's nugget started without fanfare. "It must be said that it was on a whim because at the beginning I didn't know if I was going to start basketball" he confides. He goes on to say that he was lucky to bump into his sports teacher at school who noticed his qualities and offered him to join his club where he was an assistant coach..

So the journey starts like this. To believe it, his love for the sport cannot be explained. "I can't tell you exactly why I love basketball. I just love him. In basketball I like the determination of the players, the goals we set, this challenge between players to want to win a title, to want to win a match ”he expresses. Asked if he had thrived at his current club, he replied that the supervision of these elders played a large part in making him easily integrated into the port club.

The one whose points record in a match is 21 still remembers his first match with his former club Destiny BBC which pitted them against his current club Aspac BBC. Match in which he did not score. ” I remember that in this match, I haven't even registered a single basket. It's stuck in my head. I couldn't sleep at night” he remembers.

Fadilou Alassane also has a clear and precise picture of the type of player he would like to become. Zion Williamson, basketball player playing in NBA is for him by the size, the weight, the agility, the perfect model to achieve your goals. "He is a player loved by almost all NBA fans ... If he has been known since his teens for his dunks and devastating counters., he never seemed to take a big head, which is necessarily very appreciable in this environment of oversized egos "he indicates while adding" And where Zion's humility is most obvious, it's in his dress style… He's more following in the footsteps of a Tim Duncan, very little in appearance despite its millions, than those of NBA players who also like to put on a show off the field with their outfits ”

Dance, music and table tennis are Fadilou's passions and a basketball makes him forget everything, make him happy. In life, I am afraid of not achieving the goals I have set for myself, whether in sport, on the social and other level” declares the young basketball player. Have a great career, start a beautiful family and make your parents happy. A trio which constitutes the ambitions of the young Fadilou. Beyond that, representing Benin is a wish dear to the ASPAC member.  He promised to work to break his limits further.

Damien TOLOMISSI