Yannick Noah Noah's father, Zacharie Noah, was a former professional Cameroonian football star who won the French Cup with Sedan in 1961. His mother, Marie-Claire, is a former captain of France's basketball team and teacher. Noah has five children, of whom two were from his first marriage to Cécilia Rodhe (Miss Sweden 1978 and now a sculptor): Joakim (born in 1985) and Yelena (born in 1986). Joakim plays basketball for the NBA Memphis Grizzlies and for the French team. Yelena is a model, mildly famous in the world of fashion. They don't live in France but in the U.S. With his second
Yannick Franke played at EuroBasket 2015, where the team had a 1–4 record. Franke played in one game, a 72–78 loss against Croatia, and he scored 3 points in the match. Yannick Franke Yannick Ayrton Franke (born May 21, 1996) is a Dutch professional basketball player who plays for BC Pieno žvaigždės of the Lithuanian Basketball League. Franke usually plays as shooting guard and occasionally as point guard. Franke started his professional career with the Dutch powerhouse ZZ Leiden in the 2013–14 season. In December he transferred to lower-ranked Challenge Sports Rotterdam, where he could get more playing time. In the 2014–15