Chimki accuses the Euroleague of double standards: now it should allow the repetition of the games with Žalgiris

Although due to the coronavirus and injuries they had very few ranks, the team that Rimas Kurtinaitis trained was far from being the most capable of playing 2-4 days of the Euroleague. At home, the Russians on October 10. he lost to Kaunas Žalgiris, and later in Spain he recognized the advantage of both Real Madrid and Vitorija Baskonia.

The St. Petersburg Zenit and Vilerban ASVEL teams, which were facing similar problems at that time, did not make up their minds, did not register new players and simply did not play a match in which, according to official data, they could not gather the 8 necessary basketball players. For the Zenit club, which did not go to Spain, the Euroleague initially scored two technical defeats at 0:20, but it turned out yesterday that this is not the final decision.

The new COVID-19 regulation allows clubs to find a new date and replay previous matches by agreement, so Zenit is likely to avoid technical defeats and new dates should be found for ASVEL matches.

The situation greatly angered Chimki CEO Pavel Astachom, who told RIA Novosti that the tournament organizers applied double standards.

“We respect the Euroleague, we respect our fans, we love basketball very much. We took the players of the youth team to Spain and played the best we could. But now it turned out that we could stay at home ignoring everything, losing those games 0-20 and then adjusting their new schedule like the other teams.

It simply violates the sports principle. All Euroleague teams should be the same, but the current situation has only confirmed that there are more clubs in the tournament than other clubs, ”said P. Astachov, who soon threw some more stones at the behavior of the organizers.

“In the current context, it would be logical for the Euroleague to cancel the results of the last three Chimki matches in which we did not fully participate. And then look for new schedules for this game. That would be fair. Otherwise it will be a double standard. Current solutions do not add any prestige to the organization.

Adjusting the COVID regulation is correct, but the current guidelines are concerning. In particular, the conditions in which the games that were to be played before the amendments to the regulations were affected were affected. When you can undo the results retroactively, it means you can do anything. Although, in my opinion, the law should come into force from the moment of its adoption, – he enraged Astachov. – We had five players, we asked the Euroleague to move their match in Spain. Along with “Žalgiris” we also had only five main basketball players, we had to use the youngsters. But the Euroleague refused to postpone our match in Spain. Even before the new rules were approved, the Euroleague asked the opinion of the clubs; in a letter to them, we explain everything here. “

It should be noted that the opinion of Alexander Cerkovn, general manager of the Zenit club, who received a favorable decision from the Euroleague, was radically opposite.

“The Euroleague has shown its flexibility in the current situation and has only reaffirmed that it is a very high-level organization. I believe that the situation that has happened to our club due to circumstances beyond our control will now make it easier for other clubs to face possible problems and the Euroleague season will be able to get the most out of it ”, he said.

For his part, the mythical Spanish basketball player, who is not looking for a word in his pocket, the president of the country’s Players Association, Alfonso Reyes, did not pat the Euroleague.

“The bubble in the final of the Spanish Championship in Valencia worked because we worked closely with health organizations

And now the coronavirus is practically non-existent for the Euroleague, so they didn’t make any changes to the calendar, they had to react later. After all, it was clear that it would be difficult for every country in Europe to have its own rules. And this is not the first time that an organization has thought more about itself than about the players. When decisions are made, the Euroleague puts itself first and basketball players are pointless, ”he said.

“Žalgiris” is the only leader of the tournament table after 4 rounds of the Euroleague. Chimki remains winless and is at the bottom of the tournament table.

Euroleague tournament table (place, team, wins, losses, points won, points lost, point index)