Basket Croix Rousse Olympique Lyon is a French
basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...
club playing in 2016 at the Regional level male 2 Division. It is based in the city of
Lyon
Lyon,, ; Occitan language, Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, third-largest city and Urban area (France), second-largest metropolitan area of F ...
.
History
CRO Lyon experienced in elite (
National 1A) of the championship of France in the 1970s and the early 1990s but stopped its activities (budget problems in 1996) before returning to lower levels. The club return to the top flight was possible thanks to financial support from Roger Caille,
article
de Lyon Capitale
''Lyon Capitale'' is a French monthly magazine, created in 1994, talks about Lyon and its region Rhône-Alpes
Rhône-Alpes () was an administrative region of France. Since 1 January 2016, it is part of the new region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. It i ...
CEO of Jet Service, the club then called Dumb Lyon.
Honours
French League 2
* Winners (2): 1982–83, 1990–91
French U20 League
* Winners: 2015–16
* Finalists: 2016–17
Notable players
* Éric Beugnot
* Richard Dacoury
Richard Dacoury (born July 6, 1959, in Abidjan, Ivory Coast) is a former French professional basketball player. He retired in 1998, as the basketball player who won the most French League titles during his career, with 9. Dacoury is considered ...
* Franck Mériguet
* Régis Racine
Régis Racine (born 13 October 1970 in Paris, France
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* Stéphane Risacher
Stéphane Risacher (born 26 August 1972 in Moulins, Allier) is a basketball player from France, who won the silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics
The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known ...
* Jimmy Vérove
* Michael Young
* Christophe Soulé
Christophe Soulé (born 1951) is a French mathematician working in arithmetic geometry.
Education
Soulé started his studies in 1970 at École Normale Supérieure in Paris.
He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Paris in 1979 under the sup ...
* James Nallbani
Head coaches
* Maurice Buffière (1974–77)
* Jean-Michel Sénégal (1989–94)
* Brigitte Coste (2006–07)
* Johan Rat (2009–10)
* Jean-Luc Réocreux (2010–12)
* Johan Rat (2012–2014)
References
External links
Official site
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Basketball teams in France
Sport in Lyon