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Roman “Virtus” basketball players, who have yet to get paid for their work this season, have decided to express their discontent on the field.
On Saturday night, Virtus met Germani from Brescia at the Italian league match, and the Virtus basketball players decided not to launch their first attack and only then start the match.
The basketball players of the Brescia club were also informed about this, who did not try to defend themselves and only waited a moment until the 24 seconds of the attack expired. The result of the match was 70:64 won by the Roman basketball players, who achieved the second victory in six matches.
Two weeks ago, it was announced that the Virtus basketball players from Rome had yet to receive their first salary this season. Virtus did not yet have a main sponsor for the team and the club’s owner, Claudio Toti, is trying to sell the team, but all negotiations so far have been unsuccessful.
It has been announced that basketball players are willing to boycott the game, but have not taken such a step so far.
On October 20 it was announced that if the situation did not change, Virtus would run for the top Italian basketball league with an application to remove the Roma club from the championship.
Virtus was founded in the 1960s. Throughout the club’s history, the Roman team has won two FIBA Koracho Cups (1986 and 1992) and triumphed in the Euroleague (1984), the FIBA Intercontinental Cup ( 1984), the Italian Championship (1983) and the Italian Super Cup. (2000).
Basketball players such as Luigi Datome, Dejan Bodiroga, Brandon Jennings, Tyus Edney, Roko Leni Ukičius, Pietro Aradori competed on the Virtus team at certain stages of their careers.
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