After the unfortunate death of his friend Kobe Bryant in a plane crash, Tony Parker has returned to the limelight of the world of sports to compete for the presidential seat of Olympique Lyonnais. Currently, the team is in seventh place in Ligue 1 with 40 points, 28 behind the leader Paris Saint-Germain.
Jean-Michel Aulas, the current president, wants to fulfill his cycle and give way to a new project that could be led by the former basketball player. However, the idea is not for this to happen immediately, but for his rise to occur in the summer of 2023, according to information from the newspaper L'Équipe.
Aulas became the head of Lyon in 1987, turning it into one of the most important teams in France in the 2000s, after a restructuring and investment process that bore fruit and resulted in 7 consecutive league titles, with the Brazilian Juninho Pernambucano as a key figure.
It helps that Parker is the owner of ASVEL Villeurbanne, a basketball team that is part of Lyon, where he played a brief period in 2011.