will we see Pau Gasol and his teammates, preferred opponents of the France team basketball, the next Olympic Games in Rio? Nothing is less sure. La Roja European champions Lille in September after eliminating the Blues, Olympic silver medalist in 2008 and 2012 is clearly threatened with exclusion from the tournament by the International Basketball Federation (FIBA).
Saturday 23 April in Geneva, FIBA has confirmed the decision of the FIBA Europe competition deprive countries whose clubs participate in the Eurocup, a competition organized by the private consortium that is the Euroleague (ECA). In a statement issued Saturday night, FIBA request to its European subsidiary to meet this week with all the federations concerned.
“After this consultative process, decisions will be applied to European levels and World », confirms FIBA. The Executive Committee also proposes to the leaders of the Euroleague to meet in the coming days at the headquarters of the federation
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La Roja is the collateral victim of the opposition between the Euroleague and FIBA, which breeds nationally between the Association of professional clubs and the Spanish basketball Federation.
FIBA, who wants to organize a competition next season powerful clubs, is resigned that sixteen of the best clubs in the continent competing in the Euroleague, which will become the next season a closed competition. But she wants the skin of the Eurocup, the second competition organized by ECA, including Strasbourg won Friday’s final go
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Not having convinced all leagues and European clubs to play their own competition, dubbed Fiba Champions League, FIBA Europe threatened last weekend to exclude from the next championship of Europe of nations, organized in 2017 in Turkey, all countries whose clubs remain refractory.
Since then, several federations, including Russia and Lithuania, have yielded to the injunctions of FIBA and threatened refractory clubs sanctions. This is not the case of Serbia, another power of world basketball, especially in Spain, in a more complicated position: the clubs of the association as a whole has a contract with the Euroleague, based consortium Barcelona and directed by Spaniard Jordi Bertomeu. The pressures of the federation and the Spanish Ministry of Sports are so far without effect.
The meetings scheduled in the week appear as the last chance to find a solution to the conflict. Vice President of the Serbian Basketball Federation, the legend Dejan Bodiroga, hinted in an interview with local media that a solution could be found through an agreement between FIBA and the Euroleague: “Frankly we have a solution to the whole problem or, to be more clear, a concrete offer to the Euroleague “, Bodiroga said.
an agreement between the two parts who denigrate continually in the press and each have initiated legal proceedings would be a major reversal in this episode that upsets for months continental basketball, and threatens to spoil the major tournament of the sport.
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