Strengthening for Union Neuchâtel. The Riveraine team can rely on two new players in their squad this season. The club announced this Friday that Neuchâtel resident Eliott Kubler will return to the room where he made his debut. The 2m01 player was trained with the unionist youth movement then at the BBC Boncourt training center. Since then, he has played in the Swiss Basketball League teams Union Neuchâtel from 2018 to 2021 and since 2021 with Vevey Riviera where he played his last season 2022-2023 averaging 6.5 points and 4.1 rebounds in 20. games he played.
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The second arrival was announced this Friday, that of David Vukcovic, from Yverdon-les-Bains. Born on March 16, 2004, he can play in positions 3, 4 and 2 and measures 2m07. The young basketball player mainly played at the Friborg Academy in the U17 during the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 seasons and also in the U23 during the same season. From 2021 to 2023, he wore the colors of the Swiss National Basketball Center in the National League B with an average of 10.6 points, 6.7 rebounds, 2 steals and 1.8 assists. around 21 games in which he aligned in his second season. . He is a Swiss U16, U18 and U20 international. Since the 2023-2024 season and this start of the 2024-2025 season, he has been playing in a US college with the University of Texas at Tyler.
Union Neuchâtel added that if all the administrative formalities are completed, they can line up on Saturday for the quarter-final of the Swiss Basketball Cup against Lugano. /comm-gjo