{"id":510771,"date":"2026-08-19T20:34:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T18:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=510771"},"modified":"2026-08-19T20:34:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T18:34:37","slug":"victor-wembanyama-being-france-captain-is-a-great-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/victor-wembanyama-being-france-captain-is-a-great-honor\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Wembanyama: \u201cBeing France Captain Is a Great Honor\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Wembanyama commented on his <a href=\"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/victor-wembanyama-named-france-captain\/\">new role<\/a> as captain of the French national team ahead of their World Cup 2027 qualifiers against Slovenia and Sweden.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Being captain is first and foremost about setting an example, being a leader, through performance on the court, knowing the systems, the opponents, and bringing calm,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiba.basketball\/en\/events\/fiba-basketball-world-cup-2027-european-qualifiers\/news\/wembanyama-embraces-new-chapter-as-france-captain\">Wembanyama stated.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This window is a good opportunity to experience this new chapter with the coaching staff as captain. It&#8217;s probably earlier than I expected, and likely earlier than everyone else expected. But it&#8217;s not rushed either. I&#8217;m honored and excited. I wasn&#8217;t expecting it until Freddy told me, but it&#8217;s a great honor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, France will face Serbia in the first of two scheduled friendly games between the two teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow, France will face Serbia in the first of two scheduled friendly games between the two teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":509941,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[383],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-510771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-cup"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/08\/Victor-wembanyama-FIBA.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510771"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=510771"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=510771"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=510771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}