Yesterday the Sharks sporting director, D’Orta, had threatened not to go and play in Bologna. Now the federation’s reply: “No persecution, the League works to prevent the credibility of the championship from being undermined”
An increasingly warm climate between Federbasket and Trapani Sharks after yesterday the sporting director of the Sicilian club Valeriano D’Orta, at the end of the home match against Varese, in relation to the well-known issue of non-payments with consequent penalty points, had threatened: “Unsustainable situation, Legabasket and the Italian Basketball Federation are carrying out a clear injustice and persecutory act towards the club. We are considering not showing up at Bologna next week.”
harsh statement
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The FIP urgently convened an extraordinary federal council and then responded firmly in Trapani through the following statement: “The Federal Council, meeting today in an extraordinary capacity, regarding the position of the Trapani Shark company, in sharing the firmness with which the Federation has handled the matter so far, aimed at demanding compliance with all the rules of participation in the top championship, excluding any rhetoric of ‘persecutory intent’, has also unanimously agreed that the behavior taken on by the Club is seriously damaging the image of the entire movement, and has given the Federal President a broad mandate to identify and implement any initiative, including of a legal nature, useful for its protection. The Federal Council has also invited the Lega Basket Serie A to take any decision of an intra-association nature aimed at preventing the credibility of the top championship from being further placed in serious and serious crisis”.
