Faced with the madness triggered by each outing of Victor Wembanyama with the Mets since the start of the season, Boulogne-Levallois announced on Friday that he would receive Bourg-en-Bresse on May 7 at Bercy, which can accommodate nearly 14,000 spectators.
This is to be expected, and this is probably not the only time this will happen. Engulfed in the madness triggered by the Victor Wembanyama phenomenon, Boulogne-Levallois had no choice but to react. To avoid a new tidal wave on its ticket office during an upcoming home outing scheduled by the calendar, the Mets will therefore relocate. Friday, the former leader of Betclic Elite relegated to second place (behind Monaco) after the end of his series of victories (nine in a row), last Tuesday on the floor of Gravelines-Dunkirk, announced that his match against Bourg -en-Bresse on May 7, he would not play it at the Palais des Sports Marcel-Cerdan as is the case every weekend when the Wembanyama attraction and the Metropolitans receive but at the AccorArena in Bercy. Here again, it’s the number of requests that is quite incredible (to the point of saturating online ticket sales each time) to see at work the one who will join the NBA next year and should very quickly become its one of the stars who forced and led the Ile-de-France club to think about leaving its usual room for the second largest indoor arena in France for sport after the Paris La Défense Arena.
The Mets will go from 2,800 to 14,000 seats!
Indeed, when the Palais des Sports Marcel-Cerdan can accommodate 2,800 people, the AccorArena can accommodate almost five times more, with a capacity of around 14,000 seats. The account is therefore quickly made for this Boulogne-Levallois team which has been sold out since the start of the season (more precisely since the two exhibition matches played in Las Vegas in October) and the arrival at the Mets of the one who is became the first player in the history of the French championship to line up four games in a row with more than 30 points. This same Wembanyama whose performances with his new team (he previously played for ASVEL) are broadcast live in the middle of the night in the United States, with moreover a strong audience despite the schedule. “Since the two matches played by the Metropolitans 92 in Las Vegas, requests for places for the matches have been constantly growing, which has led the club’s management to seek a solution to be able to offer as many people as possible the possibility of attending at a Metropolitans game led by Victor Wembanyama. “On May 7, it will probably be the turn of Bercy to sell out for “Wemby”.