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Euro League going with a new format on confrontation to FIBA - skeptical Bavaria Pesic. Munich – About half a year, she now runs so but, this season the basketball Euro League
On May 15, the successor to Real Madrid will be chosen in Berlin. , But now becoming apparent that the new champion of the last one is also the same in the current form of competition.
decided the Champions League and eleven so far most important clubs a retreaded competition format. Already from the coming season at the new club European champions will determine the real league format with home and away round and final playoff. A Europa League so, albeit with significantly elitärerem field. 16 teams will get admission. In addition to the eleven founders who tied for periods of ten years to the Euro League, including three national champion – regardless of the Nations is yet to be determined. A strong partner with marketers IMG already found.
A quite spicy foray when you consider that since the summer and the World Association FIBA more or less vociferously for Return a newly modeled and highly doped top competition in the umbrella organization advertises. Just last week there was a round table in the “home of basketball” in the FIBA in Swiss Mies. With this next Euro League chief Jordi Bertomeu also-some representatives of the top clubs. What followed was a message that sounded like a friendly approach.
But now everything is different, the Euro League goes with its decision on hard collision course for FIBA. What is strongly reminiscent of its founding in 2000 as the top clubs already with the spin-off into an independent umbrella organization managed facts and the World Association outmaneuvered. One senses: without a fight the FIBA will also not accept the matter at this time. Already in the past few weeks there have been a precautionary first threats. Finally, France’s federation chief and FIBA official Jean-Pierre Siutat announced in the Berliner Zeitung on possible sanctions for deviants. His message: “a dispute will not win the clubs.”
Where is for now not yet clear how to position the teams that are not to Elfer District of Barcelona belong. The German clubs about should probably in two models with only one, instead of last count two grid positions. “The current situation is for the German Basketball beneficial” said Bayern sporting director Marko Pesic. But above all, the announced Euro League system encounters concerns. Alone in the main round, the participants would continue to complete 30 games – exactly as many games had in the previous year the professionals of Real Madrid on the hump, as they crowned themselves in their own hall of champions. “I can not even imagine how the format should be Schedule technically feasible to me. The calendar already is completely full, especially in leagues such as the BBL with 18 teams’
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