Former D’Tigress Centre, Oderah Chidom, has joined the French Ligue Féminine de Basketball side Flammes Carolo ahead of the 2024/25 league season.
The announcement was made on the official website of Flammes Carolo on Monday, August 11, 2024.
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Chidom left Italian side, Ragusa, where she made an impressive performance, averaging 15.1 points per game and a 52.8% field goal percentage, to join the French club.
Flammes Carolo will commence action in the league with their season opener scheduled against Landes Women at the Caisse d’épargne Arena on Monday, August 19, 2024.
The club’s head coach, Romuald Yernaux, said that Chidom had been on the club’s radar for a month, describing her as the right player the club needed ahead of the upcoming season.
“We wanted a recruit who was tall, technically comfortable, but above all, someone who was versatile,” Yernaux told Flammes Carolo website.
“We wanted a player with a certain intensity, mobility, and aggressiveness in our game. And so Chidom was a profile that we had targeted for several months. However, we had to wait for the prices to return to standards that align with ours. There was an opportunity at the beginning of August, and we were able to seize it.
“She is a player who knows the context of a week without a European Cup and who has performed in this scenario, both in France and in Italy. She is really a player who fits the model that we want to implement. She has an interesting experience.
“She is a player who goes into combat and who is capable of putting speed into her runs. We will find her in the intensity and, in particular, during the rebound phases. Chidom meets many of the criteria that we were looking for with the staff. She is taller than Tiffany Clarke, and that seemed necessary to us because we needed a bit of size.”
The Nigerian-American is a well-known player in the French championship for having played at Angers (2021-2022) and Saint-Amand (2022-2023) before moving to Italy.
Chidom, a 2021 FIBA Afrobasket winner with Nigeria’s D’Tigress, has plied her trade in Slovenia, Greece, Belarus, Italy, and France.
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“A player who fit into the model that we want to implement” that clause is mind blowing . It shows a coach with vision , intent and purpose. I think that is what is lacking in Most SE coaaches of recent . They go about inviting every tom and Harry into the SE without a model in Mind. That reminds of Clements Westerof , A man who knew what he wanted and how to get it. Discover Amokachi, Finidi and Amonike not because they were the best in the world but because they were the best fit in his model of football. Can who ever is going to take over SE give this paradigm? We crave such experiences once again.
That’s right 4-4-2 and to add up rebound was our biggest undoing at the games so this sort of players will be needed if we are to solve issues of rebound in the tigress. “She is a player who goes into combat and who is capable of putting speed into her runs. We will find her in the intensity and, in particular, during the rebound phases.
@4-4-2, thanks for sharing your mind-reading skills with the rest of us…LOL!
Meanwhile, I guess Westerhoff stopped knowing “what he wanted and how to get it” immediately after he left Nigeria.
LMAO Post Naija-Phopia!!!
This is good comment.