{"id":141273,"date":"2020-03-27T10:58:31","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T09:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=141273"},"modified":"2020-03-27T10:58:32","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T09:58:32","slug":"vtb-united-league-has-cancelled-the-remainder-of-2019-20-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/vtb-united-league-has-cancelled-the-remainder-of-2019-20-season\/","title":{"rendered":"VTB United League has cancelled the remainder of 2019\/20 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Upon online voting, the Board of the League has decided to terminate season 2019\/20 due to negative developments in COVID-19 outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>VTB United League general director\u00a0<strong>Ilona Korstin:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnly now, after Board of the League online voting, it has been decided to cancel the remainder of 2019\/20 season. Yesterday\u2019s comments of clubs\u2019 heads distributed by media had no legal power.<br \/>\nToday \u2013 when the borders are closed, the teams can not practice at basketball arenas, and the clubs have to let the foreign players go home \u2013 there\u2019s no purpose to continue the championship. Considering European and global outbreak of COVID-19, it\u2019s far more important to ensure safety of the players, their families, clubs\u2019 staff and of course the fans. Now, the clubs and we have to do our best to guarantee that this situation doesn\u2019t affect the next season of VTB United League, it starts it in proper time.<br \/>\nThere will be no champion of 2019\/20 season due to absence of sports criteria: the teams played different number of games, the regular season has not finished. The Belov Cup will not be awarded this season. Final standings of the Russian championship will be presented to RBF.<br \/>\nBasketball will surely come back to VTB United League arenas, but now we\u2019d better follow the recommendations of medics and health authorities.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">? VTB United League has cancelled the remainder of 2019\/20 season\u2800<br \/>\n\u2800<br \/>\nUpon online voting, the Board of the League has decided to terminate season 2019\/20 due to negative developments in COVID-19 outbreak. There will be no champion of 2019\/20 season.\u2800<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IIl5tST3zx\">https:\/\/t.co\/IIl5tST3zx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 VTB United League (@VTBUL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VTBUL\/status\/1243473196596318211?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 27, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upon online voting, the Board of the League has decided to terminate season 2019\/20 due to negative developments in COVID-19 outbreak<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-141273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141273"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=141273"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=141273"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=141273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}