By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net
The related announcements by EuroCup Basketball are the following:
A familiar face is set to keep working for Paris Levallois in the long run, as the club announced that head coach Fred Fauthoux re-signed his contract until the end of the 2020-21 season. Fauthoux, age 44, became Paris’s head coach midway through the 2015-16 season. He helped his club reach the French League semifinals last season. A former player, Fauthoux spent his whole career with Pau-Orthez, averaging 4.7 points and 1.7 assists in 81 Turkish Airlines EuroLeague career games over six seasons. Once he retired in 2007, Fauthoux coached Pau’s junior team and vinculated squad Pau Orthez Nord-Est before joining Paris. As assistant coach, he helped the French national team get a gold medal at the 2014 U16 European Championships.
Paris Levallois kept building its roster for its upcoming 7DAYS EuroCup return by re-signing small forward Cyrille Eliezer-Vanerot for two more years, until the end of the 2018-19 season, the club announced Thursday. Eliezer-Vanerot (2.02 meters, 20 years old) averaged 6.3 points and 3 rebounds in 30 French League games last season. Eliezer-Vanerot started his career at Centre Federal du Basket-Ball and played at the 2013 Euroleague International Junior Tournament in London, England. He joined Paris before the start of the 2014-15 season, making his EuroCup debut shortly after that. Eliezer-Vanerot has been a member of the French U16, U18 and U20 national teams. He helped France win a silver medal at the 2012 U16 European Championships.
RETAbet Bilbao Basket reached an agreement with small forward Pere Tomas to work together for the next three years, until the end of the 2019-20 season, the club announced Thursday. Tomas (2.02 meters, 27 years old) arrives from Basquet Manresa, where he averaged 10.6 points and 4.4 rebounds in 32 Spanish League games last season. He won the then-called ULEB Cup with Joventut Badalona in 2008. Tomas averaged 2.4 points in 7 games that season but was a starter in the Championship Game against Akasvayu Girona. He started his career with Joventut and also played for CAI Zaragoza before joining Manresa. He also helped Joventut lift the Spanish Copa del Rey trophy in 2008. Tomas also won three bronze medals with Spain in youth categories – at the 2006 U18 European Championships, as well as at the 2008 and 2008 U20 European Championships. He brings in plenty of EuroCup experience – he acumulated 309 points and 156 rebounds in 63 career games over five seasons with Joventut and Zaragoza.