Yannick Bokolo

Yannick Bokolo
Player information
birthday	June 19, 1985 (35 years and 74 days)
place of birth	Kinshasa , Zaire
size	188 cm
position	construction
Clubs as active
2003-2008	Le Mans Sarthe Basket
2008-2014	BCM Gravelines
2014-2019	Élan Béarnais Pau-Lacq-Orthez

Yannick Bokolo N'Djali (born June 19,  1985 in Kinshasa ) is a former French basketball player .

career

Born in Kinshasa , Bokolo left Zaïre with his parents, first lived in Belgrade and from the age of five in France . As a teenager, he first played football and then basketball in Strasbourg . Between 2000 and 2003, Bokolo was trained at the French youth performance center INSEP and then switched to Le Mans Sarthe Basket . In the 2003/04 season he made his debut in the French premier league, the ProA, for Le Mans. In 2006 he became French champions with the team. In 2008 he left Le Mans and joined the league competitor BCM Gravelines-Dunkerque . In the 2010/11 game year he achieved the highest average of points (12.7 per encounter) of his ProA time, the best value in preparing for basket successes he achieved in his last year in Gravelines-Dunkerque (2013/14) when he was fourth , 5 templates per game.

From 2014 until the end of his career as a professional basketball player in 2019, Bokolo strengthened Pau-Lacq-Orthez .

National team

Bokolo played in the French national youth team and later also for the men's team, with which he took part in the 2012 Summer Olympics, the 2006 and 2010 World Championships and the 2009 European Championships. He made 92 appearances for France.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.ffbb.com/yannick-bokolo
2. ↑ https://www.lnb.fr/fr/pro-a/statistiques-joueur-40.html?player=A28120
3. ↑ http://www.basketactu.com/yannick-bokolo-confirme-sa-retraite-sportive-139128/
4. ↑ https://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/player/p/pid/38110/sid/3794/tid/282/_/2005_U20_European_Championship_Men_DIVISION_A/index.html
5. ↑ https://www.lequipe.fr/Basket/Actualites/Jeep-elite-yannick-bokolo-arrete-sa-carriere/1031209