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ES Avignon basket ball

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Avignon, France

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Blue & white

Entente Sportive Avignon is a French former basketball club based in Avignon. Thereafter, it is the Athletic Union Avignon-Le Pontet basketball which is the leading club in the city, becoming in 2014 Grand Avignon Sorgues Basketball.

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History

At the end of the 1976-77 season, ES Avignon accesses to Division 1 under the leadership of its captain, Antoine Cerase, the American Mike Hopwood and the great French hope, Philippe Szaniel. The club was owned for 12 seasons in the elite championship of France, a record of 110 wins, 7 draws and 199 defeats in 316 matches.

Notable players

  • Didier Dobbels
  • Alain Larrouquis
  • Philip Szanyiel
  • Franck Cazalon
  • Antoine Cerase
  • Vince Taylor
  • Horace Wyatt
  • Tom Snyder
  • Pat Burtey
  • Bernard Van den Broeck
  • Emmanuel Schmitt

    • References

    ES Avignon basket-ball Wikipedia
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