🏀0️⃣4️⃣6️⃣ Vincent Collet
Meet Vincent Collet, the former player-turned-coach whose transatlantic hoops influences and relationships inform his work with professional teams, as well as that with Team France.
🏀0️⃣3️⃣0️⃣ Bob Riley
Meet Bob Riley, the former Atlanta Hawk who helped enrich the French game and national team as one of the first U.S.-born naturalized Frenchmen to play for Les Bleus in the 1970s.
⚽🗞️029 Jonathan Johnson
Meet Jonathan Johnson, a French football specialist who helps translate the hexagone’s football, stars, tacticians, and culture to American audiences.
🏀0️⃣2️⃣8️⃣ Bill Cain
Meet Bill Cain, the New York native who translated his NCAA student-athlete activist experience into a role as a sports ambassador for the United States, France, and Les Bleus in basketball.
🏀0️⃣1️⃣4️⃣ Michel Rat
Meet Michel Rat, a basketball player, coach, and administrator who helped translate U.S. style basketball techniques to generations of French players from 1962 to today.
Mapping the Connections
The connections highlighted by #FranceAndUS Voices over time.
Blue = From the United States to France. Red = From France to the United States.