The Euroleague Players Association (ELPA) takes a step forward in its strategy as a union. ELPA aims to establish itself as a comprehensive organization for the protection of players\u2019 rights and go beyond mere defense of their labor framework. The athlete\u2019s health, their physical and mental integrity, and everything related to the player\u2019s well-being become priorities.<\/p>\n
For ELPA\u2019s Director Manager, Bostjan Nachbar: <\/strong>\u201c<\/em>performance and recovery are two of the most important issues in a player\u2019s professional career, as they can improve and prolong it. That\u2019s why four years ago we created the Performance Advisory Council with top-level experts worldwide who assist us with their research, experiences, and scientific data so that our members can have more knowledge and support where they need it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n This quality leap in their services\u2019 performance must be reflected in the improvement of the product that ultimately reaches the fans. ELPA is preparing a series of activities related to players\u2019 health, which should also result in an improvement in their quality of life and, consequently, an enhancement in the quality of the competition.<\/p>\n \u201c<\/em>We want to connect basketball people, whether from the Euroleague or not,\u201d\u00a0says Nachbar,\u00a0\u201cbecause our challenge is the same: to help players have better careers, better games, and thus a better product for the fans.\u201d\u00a0In this sense, Nachbar adds,\u00a0\u201cwe are in the process of integrating Eurocup players and have had many meetings with players from this competition this season, but it\u2019s too early to say more. What I can say is that players want ELPA to protect them, and I\u2019m sure it will do so in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n The Euroleague Players Association is a union that represents all players in the competition, with representation in each of the participating teams. ELPA was founded in 2018 out of necessity among professional basketball workers to protect and provide stability to their job situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ELPA has issued an official statement announcing that it is expanding its horizons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":192959,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[199],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[15727],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-381274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","typology-press-release-en"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/01\/1500x500.jpeg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381274","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\/174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381274"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=381274"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=381274"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=381274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}