Pavel Astakhov: Everyone should be equal in Euroleague…

The words of Pavel Astakhov, general manager of Khimki Moscow, after the Euroleague decision to reschedule all the matches that have been canceled due to the problems with COVID 19 of the various teams.

Via R-Sport:

“We respect the Euroleague as a tournament, we respect our fans, we love basketball a lot. We attracted young players and went to games in Spain, played these game as best we could. And now it turns out we couldn’t go anywhere, I don’t give a damn about everyone, we would have 0:20, and now these games would be postponed. As has been done to other teams. It seems to me that in this case the sporting principle is violated. Everyone should be the same in the tournament, but it turns out that some teams in the Euroleague are more equal than others

We respect the Euroleague as a tournament, we respect our fans, we love basketball very much. We went to the games in Spain with our young players,and we played these matches as best we could. And now it turns out that we could have avoided playing, don’t give a damn about everyone, we would get 0 : 20, and now these games would be postponed. As it was done to other teams. It seems to me that in this case the sporting principle is violated. Everyone should be equal in the tournament, but it turns out that some teams in the Euroleague are more equal than others”

“In this sense, it would be logical if the Euroleague thought and canceled the results of the last three matches of Khimki, in which our team did not play in full strength due to COVID, and would postpone it to other dates. That would be fair. If this will not happen, double standards are obtained. Such decisions do not add credibility to the tournament”