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Agathe N'Nindjem-Yolemp
Agathe N'Nindjem-Yolemp (born August 4, 1980) is a Cameroonian female basketball player. Personal life N'Nindjem-Yolemp's daughter, Dominique Malonga Dominique Sossorobla Malonga (born 8 January 1989) is a Congolese professional footballer who plays as a striker for Icelandic club Þór Akureyri. Malonga has previously played for Italian sides Torino, Foggia, Cesena, Vicenza and Pro Vercel ..., is a professional basketball. References External linksProfileat eurobasket.com 1980 births Living people Basketball players from Yaoundé Cameroonian women's basketball players Centers (basketball) {{Cameroon-basketball-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Center (basketball)
The center (C), or the centre, also known as the five or the pivot, is one of the five positions in a regulation basketball game. The center is normally the tallest player on the team, and often has a great deal of strength and body mass as well. In the NBA, the center is typically close to tall. They traditionally play close to the basket in the low post. Centers are valued for their ability to protect their own goal from high-percentage close attempts on defense, while scoring and rebounding with high efficiency on offense. In the 1950s and 1960s, George Mikan and Bill Russell were centerpieces of championship dynasties and defined early prototypical centers. With the addition of a three-point field goal for the 1979–80 NBA season, 1979–80 season, however, NBA basketball gradually became more perimeter-oriented and saw the importance of the center position diminished. The most recent center to win an NBA Most Valuable Player Award was Nikola Jokić, winning the award twice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yaoundé
Yaoundé (; , ) is the capital of Cameroon and, with a population of more than 2.8 million, the second-largest city in the country after the port city Douala. It lies in the Centre Region of the nation at an elevation of about 750 metres (2,500 ft) above sea level. The outpost of Epsumb or Jeundo was founded between the Nyong and Sanaga rivers at the northern edge of the area's forests in 1887 by German explorers as a trading base for rubber and ivory. A military garrison was built in 1895 which enabled further colonization. After Imperial Germany's defeat in World War I, France held eastern Cameroon as a mandate, and Yaoundé was chosen to become the capital of the colony in 1922. Douala remained the more important settlement, but Yaoundé saw rapid growth and continued as the seat of government for the Republic of Cameroon upon its independence in 1960. Most of Yaoundé's economy is still centred on the administrative structure but major industries in Yaoundé incl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cameroon
Cameroon (; french: Cameroun, ff, Kamerun), officially the Republic of Cameroon (french: République du Cameroun, links=no), is a country in west- central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west and north; Chad to the northeast; the Central African Republic to the east; and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and the Republic of the Congo to the south. Its coastline lies on the Bight of Biafra, part of the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean. Due to its strategic position at the crossroads between West Africa and Central Africa, it has been categorized as being in both camps. Its nearly 27 million people speak 250 native languages. Early inhabitants of the territory included the Sao civilisation around Lake Chad, and the Baka hunter-gatherers in the southeastern rainforest. Portuguese explorers reached the coast in the 15th century and named the area ''Rio dos Camarões'' (''Shrimp River''), which became ''Cameroon'' in English. Fulani soldiers founded the Adamawa E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dexia Namur
Dexia N.V./S.A., or the Dexia Group, is a Franco-Belgian financial institution formed in 1996. At its peak in 2010, it had about 35,200 members of staff and a core shareholders' equity of €19.2 billion. In 2008, the bank entered severe financial difficulties and received taxpayer bailouts for €6 billion, and it became the first big casualty of the 2011 European sovereign debt crisis. Due to big losses, suffered among others from the debt haircut on Greek government bonds, and an orderly resolution process began in October 2011. As part of the resolution, Dexia Bank Belgium was bought out from the Dexia group by the Belgian state and has continued to operate, since March 2012 under the new name Belfius. The French bank focused on local government lending was restructured as . The remaining part of the Dexia group was left in a "bad bank", still called Dexia, to be gradually wound down. Profile In the 2010 Fortune Global 500 (which lists companies by total in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ESB Villeneuve-d'Ascq
ESB Villeneuve-d'Ascq is a French women's basketball club from Villeneuve-d'Ascq playing in the Ligue Féminine de Basketball since 2000. Honours * Ligue Féminine ** Winners (1): 2017 * French Cup ** Runner-up (3): 2003, 2008, 2014 * EuroCup Women ** Winners (1): 2015 Roster 2016-2017 Trainer : Frédéric Dussart. Famous former players * Émilie Gomis * Vedrana Grgin-Fonseca * Florence Lepron * Lætitia Kamba * Megan Mahoney * {{flagicon, FIN Michaela Moua * Emma Meeseman *Richmond magat References Villeneuve-d'Ascq Villeneuve-d'Ascq Villeneuve-d'Ascq (; pcd, Neuvile-Ask) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. With more than 60,000 inhabitants and 50,000 students, it is one of the main cities of the Métropole Européenne de Lille and the largest in area ... Villeneuve-d'Ascq Basketball teams established in 1987 EuroCup Women-winning clubs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toulouse Launaguet Basket
Toulouse ( , ; oc, Tolosa ) is the prefecture of the French department of Haute-Garonne and of the larger region of Occitania. The city is on the banks of the River Garonne, from the Mediterranean Sea, from the Atlantic Ocean and from Paris. It is the fourth-largest city in France after Paris, Marseille and Lyon, with 493,465 inhabitants within its municipal boundaries (2019 census); its metropolitan area has a population of 1,454,158 inhabitants (2019 census). Toulouse is the central city of one of the 20 French Métropoles, with one of the three strongest demographic growth (2013-2019). Toulouse is the centre of the European aerospace industry, with the headquarters of Airbus, the SPOT satellite system, ATR and the Aerospace Valley. It hosts the CNES's Toulouse Space Centre (CST) which is the largest national space centre in Europe, but also, on the military side, the newly created NATO space centre of excellence and the French Space Command and Space Academy. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CB Ciudad De Burgos
Club Baloncesto Ciudad de Burgos was a women's professional Basketball team based in Burgos, Spain. History CB Ciudad de Burgos was founded in 1996 as a merger of the two top teams of the city: *CB Burgos *CB Alfa In 2000 finished as runner-up of the Copa de la Reina, and played the Ronchetti Cup the next season. In the 2005–06 season finished in the third position and lost in the Liga Femenina semifinals against Perfumerías Avenida, but in the next year the team was relegated to Liga Femenina 2. Three years later, in 2011, the club came back to Liga Femenina. In July 2014, the club announced it would not compete in any senior competitions and in 2015 it merged with other local club. Season by season Notable players * Tanya Bröring * Anna Cruz Anna Cruz Lebrato (born 27 October 1986) is a Spanish professional basketball player, currently playing for Spanish team Barça CBS (F.C.Barcelona). She developed her professional career in several clubs in Spain, Russia, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mourenx Basket Club
Mourenx (; oc, Morencs) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in south-western France. History A settlement of ''Mourengs'' existed in the eleventh century. A secular abbey existed, belonging to the Viscount of Béarn. In 1385 the village had 27 hearths. Natural gas deposits were discovered in nearby Lacq in 1951. A new town was constructed in 1958 to provide accommodation for the workers required at the gas processing plant. The town was designed by architects and urbanists Coulon, Douillet and Maneval. It consisted of three groups of collective housing, three groups of family housing, all around a central area of support facilities. The well-known French sociologist Henri Lefebvre carried out a study of Mourenx and its inhabitants at the time of its creation. Population See also *Communes of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department The following is a list of the 546 communes of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department of France. The communes cooperate in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CB Avenida
Perfumerías Avenida Baloncesto formerly C.B. Halcón Viajes, is a women's professional basketball team based in Salamanca, Spain. The team currently plays in the Liga Femenina de Baloncesto. In 2011 Perfumerías Avenida won the Euroleague, and was runner-up in 2009 and 2021. Season by season Squad Honours National * Liga Femenina (8) ** Champion: 2005–06, 2010–11, 2012–13, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2020–21, 2021-22 ** Runner-up: 1995–96, 1998–99, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2011–12, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2018–19 * Copa de la Reina (10) ** Champion: 2005, 2006, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022 ** Runner-up: 2001, 2004, 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016 * Supercopa de España (9) ** Champion: 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020 ** Runner-up: 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2015, 2019, 2021 * Copa Castilla y León (16) ** Champion: 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toulouse Métropole Basket
Toulouse ( , ; oc, Tolosa ) is the prefecture of the French department of Haute-Garonne and of the larger region of Occitania. The city is on the banks of the River Garonne, from the Mediterranean Sea, from the Atlantic Ocean and from Paris. It is the fourth-largest city in France after Paris, Marseille and Lyon, with 493,465 inhabitants within its municipal boundaries (2019 census); its metropolitan area has a population of 1,454,158 inhabitants (2019 census). Toulouse is the central city of one of the 20 French Métropoles, with one of the three strongest demographic growth (2013-2019). Toulouse is the centre of the European aerospace industry, with the headquarters of Airbus, the SPOT satellite system, ATR and the Aerospace Valley. It hosts the CNES's Toulouse Space Centre (CST) which is the largest national space centre in Europe, but also, on the military side, the newly created NATO space centre of excellence and the French Space Command and Space Academy. Thale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basket Catalan Perpignan Méditerranée
A basket is a container that is traditionally constructed from stiff fibers and can be made from a range of materials, including wood splints, runners, and cane. While most baskets are made from plant materials, other materials such as horsehair, baleen, or metal wire can be used. Baskets are generally woven by hand. Some baskets are fitted with a lid, while others are left open on top. Uses Baskets serve utilitarian as well as aesthetic purposes. Some baskets are ceremonial, that is religious, in nature. While baskets are usually used for harvesting, storage and transport, specialized baskets are used as sieves for a variety of purposes, including cooking, processing seeds or grains, tossing gambling pieces, rattles, fans, fish traps, and laundry. History Prior to the invention of woven baskets, people used tree bark to make simple containers. These containers could be used to transport gathered food and other items, but crumbled after only a few uses. Weaving strips of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominique Malonga (basketball)
Dominique Malonga (born 16 November 2005) is a French professional basketball player for ASVEL Féminin of the Ligue Féminine de Basketball (LFB) and a member of the France women's national basketball team. Malonga was the youngest member of the French team at the 2024 Summer Olympics and won a silver medal. In 2024, Malonga made history by becoming the first Frenchwoman to dunk in a game. Early life Malonga was born in Yaoundé, and is the daughter of Thalance Malonga and Agathe N'Nindjem-Yolemp. Both of her parents are former basketball players, while her father is currently a doctor. Playing career On 30 June 2021, Malonga signed with ASVEL Féminin of the LFB. ASVEL Féminin president Tony Parker called her the female Victor Wembanyama. During the 2021–22 season, in her first season with the club, she averaged six points and five rebounds in seven games. During the 2022–23 season she missed six weeks due to injury and averaged 6.4 points and 3.3 rebounds in seven game ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
