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Photo: R. Lukoševičius
Photo R. Lukoševičius
The FIBA Champions League has decided to change 2020-2021 due to the risk of a pandemic. regular season tournament format and the team was divided into eight groups of four teams each. Vilnius “Rytas” entered Group E along with teams from Greece, France and Latvia.
The capital club will face the Athens teams “Peristeri”, Strasbourg SIG and Riga VEF, and the next two teams in each group will advance to the next phase of the tournament.
Rytas head coach Donaldas Kairys was pleased that the Champions League organizers are looking for the most optimal solutions and trying to reduce the risks in organizing international matches as much as possible.
“I am glad that the Champions League is responding to the current situation in the world and trying to create a format that realistically looks forward to being able to celebrate the championship. We all understand that the first choice was with incomparably more risk factors. Now, it seems, there are more opportunities to run the tournament in case of unforeseen obstacles, – says the strategist of the team “Ryto”. “Well, in the new group, our goals are still the highest.”
In the Champions League tournament, clubs will compete every two weeks to give both teams and the league itself more flexibility to respond to possible new adverse scenarios for the spread of the virus.
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