Vincent Collet

Vincent Florent Antoine Collet (born 6 June 1963) is a French former professional basketball player and a current professional basketball coach. Currently, he is the head coach of the senior men's France national team and Metropolitans 92 of the LNB Pro A.

Vincent Collet

Collet, in 2014.
Metropolitans 92
Position	Head coach
League	LNB Pro A
Personal information
Born	(1963-06-06) 6 June 1963 (age 59) Sainte-Adresse, France
Nationality	French
Listed height	6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Listed weight	175 lb (79 kg)
Career information
Playing career	1981–1998
Position	Point guard / Shooting guard
Coaching career	1998–present
Career history
As player:
1981–1985	Le Mans
1985–1986	Caen
1986–1990	ASVEL
1990–1994	Le Mans
1994–1998	Le Havre
As coach:
1998–2000	Le Mans (assistant)
2000–2008	Le Mans
2008–2010	ASVEL
2009–present	France
2011–2020	Strasbourg IG
2021–present	Metropolitans 92
Career highlights and awards
As player French Pro A League champion (1982) As head coach 2× French Pro A League champion (2006, 2009) 3× French Leaders Cup winner (2006, 2010, 2015) 2× French Cup winner (2004, 2015) 2× French Supercup winner (2009, 2015) 5× French League Best Coach (2001, 2004, 2015, 2016, 2022)
Medals Men's basketball Head coach for  France Olympic Games 2020 Tokyo FIBA World Cup 2019 China 2014 Spain EuroBasket 2013 Slovenia 2011 Lithuania 2022 Germany 2015 France

Club playing career

Collet began his senior men's club career in the 1980–81 season, playing in the French 3rd-tier level league, the amateur level NM1, with AL Montivilliers. He then began his professional career, in the 1981–82 season, with Le Mans. With Le Mans, he won the French top-tier level LNB Pro A league championship, in 1982.

In total, he played 13 seasons in France's top-tier level LNB Pro A league, playing with Le Mans, Caen, and ASVEL. He then spent the last 4 seasons of his pro career, playing in France's 2nd-tier level league, the LNB Pro B, with Le Havre.

Club coaching career

Collet first became a basketball coach in 1998. He was the head coach of the French squad Le Mans, for eight years, between the 2000–01 and 2007–08 seasons, leading the team to a 2006 French League championship, and the French Cup title in 2004, as well as the French Leaders Cup title in 2006. While with the club, he was named the French League Coach of the Year in 2001 and 2004, before leaving the team in 2008.^[1]

In the 2008–09 season, he promptly led ASVEL Lyon-Villeurbanne to the French League championship, their first since 2002. In the 2015–16 season, he coached French club Strasbourg IG to the 2016 EuroCup Finals, in which the team eventually lost to the Turkish Super League club Galatasaray. He also won his third LNB Pro A Coach of the Year award that season. After that season, Collet and Strasbourg decided to part ways, after his expired contract.^[2]

After Strasbourg had a disappointing start to the 2016–17 season, they hired Collet again, on October 27, 2016.^[3]

On August 25, 2021, he has signed with Metropolitans 92 of the LNB Pro A.^[4]

France national team coaching career

Collet was hired as the senior men's France national basketball team head coach, in March 2009, following a disappointing qualifying run towards the 2009 EuroBasket, that forced the team to qualify through the additional qualifying round.^[5] After successfully leading the French national team through the additional qualifying round, as the 16th and final EuroBasket qualifier, he coached the French national team at a major tournament, for the first time, at the 2009 EuroBasket.^[6] He led the team to a fifth-place finish, which was good enough to qualify for the 2010 FIBA World Championship, where he also coached France.

Collet led France to the silver medal at the 2011 EuroBasket, then two years later coached the French team to the first gold medal in its history, at the 2013 EuroBasket in Slovenia. France continued to win medals under his watch, earning the bronze medal at the 2014 FIBA World Cup and another bronze at the 2015 EuroBasket.

Collet also coached France at the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics, where team was eliminated in the quarterfinals each time.

In early 2020, Collet stated that he intended to continue as head coach of the French senior team.^[7] At the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, France defeated the United States for the first time in its Olympic history, 83-76, in the group stage.^[8] The French team advanced to the final where it lost a rematch with the Americans, 87-82, to finish with the silver medal.^[9]

See also

• List of FIBA EuroBasket winning head coaches

References

1. "Basketball: France appoint Vincent Collet as national team coach". at en.olympic.cn
2. SIG Strasbourg, Vincent Collet part ways.
3. Collet returns at the helm as Strasbourg part ways with Dettmann.
4. "Vincent Collet is the new head coach of Boulogne-Levallois Metropolitans 92". Sportando. August 25, 2021. Retrieved August 25, 2021.
5. "Basketball: France appoint Vincent Collet as national team coach". at en.olympic.cn
6. Team Profile at eurobasket2009.com
7. Julien Lesage (20 February 2020). "Basket : "Je veux continuer d'entraîner l'équipe de France", annonce Vincent Collet". Le Parisien (in French). Retrieved 12 October 2020.
8. "Team USA basketball vs. France score, Tokyo Olympics: U.S. Collapses late, loses first Olympic game since 2004".
9. "Golden, again: US beats France 87-82 for Tokyo title". 7 August 2021.

External links

• Euroleague.net Coach Profile
• French League Coach Profile (in French)