Horacio Masino spoke with Democracy on the suspension of the bubble League National from Basketball shortly after the competition started.
The head of the Club Atlético Argentino said: “I think the bubble failed because we are not prepared to build such a thing. We are not as a society, as institutions, as athletes, to face forty days of confinement. It is nonsense.
Having people playing permanently for forty-eight hours in a row, with forty-eight hours of rest without being able to see the street is very difficult. At some point psychologically it will explode.
It also failed because everything was done in a hurry. Having a hotel closed for seven months in a city and suddenly having to receive two hundred people, delegations, feed them, prepare the restaurant and everything that implies is very risky. Almost impossible for everything to go well. It would have been a miracle.
The rush helped a lot, the need from to play. We are all partly responsible. The AdC, the health part, everyone has a little responsibility.
When things start badly, they usually end badly. This was not born well and what happened happened.
It started and there were players who came out, physical trainers running, referees taking photos. There was everything.
There were more than ten factors that had an impact but the fundamental thing is that they were not prepared to mount such a tournament in one of the best leagues in South America.
We must admit that we were wrong thinking that it could turn out well.
Argentino always showed that this should have been played from January to prepare everything with more time. There were three changes on the fly.
Today is not the time to place individual blame on anyone, just to say that this failed. It was tried and it went wrong. If it had not been tried, the doubt would have remained ”.
AdC statement
The CABB-AdC Crisis Committee advanced today (by Friday) with the Ministry of Tourism and Sports in the return of the National League. A meeting between Fabián Borro, president of the CABB, and Minister Matías Lammens was the kick to determine that, under a new modality, with strict controls of a brand new protocol and the permanent monitoring of the Ministry and the Crisis Committee, season 20 / 21 will resume on the day to be confirmed, after the dispute of the FIBA qualifying windows for the Americup 2022 (that is, in the month of December).
Nine positive cases between arbitrators and commissioners
The Union of Referees and Technical Commissioners of Basketball of Argentina issued a statement in which it disclosed the infections.
After the 2020/21 season of the National League was temporarily suspended due to the positive cases of Covid suffered in both the North and South Conference, the Union of Referees and Technical Commissioners of Basketball of Argentina issued an official statement in which informs that there are a total of nine infections between referees and technical commissioners corresponding to the competition.
The publication maintains that Rodrigo Castillo, Silvio Guzmán, Pedro Hoyo, Roberto Smith, Sebastián Vasallo, Gustavo Danna, Fernando Sampietro, Raúl Lorenzo and Daniela Kesler contracted the disease and were immediately isolated as indicated by the bubble protocol. Exactly the same thing happened with his close contacts, which are: Gustavo Chávez, Gonzalo Delsart, Pablo Estévez and Diego Rougier.
SArCoTeBa also reported that a minority of those affected have symptoms related to the virus. One of them is Castillo, who was transferred to a health center to receive better care and follow-up. The other is Vasallo, who remains controlled from his room in the accommodation provided by the Club Association.
What remains in the South
Date 6
Argentino vs. Weber
San Lorenzo vs. Gymnastics
Works vs. Boca Jrs.
Hispanic vs. Platense
Date 7
Hispanic vs. Argentinian
Ferro vs. San Lorenzo
Platense vs. Gymnastics
Weber Bahia vs. Plays
Mouth vs. Peñarol
Date 8
Platense vs. San Lorenzo
Gymnastics vs. Peñarol
Iron vs. Construction
Mouth vs. Argentinian
Weber Bahia vs. Hispanic
Date 9
Weber Bahia vs. Platense
Hispanic vs. Mouth
Argentine vs. Iron
Works vs. Gymnastics
Peñarol vs. San Lorenzo
Date 10
Platense vs. Peñarol
Works vs. San Lorenzo
Argentine vs. Gymnastics
Hispano vs. Ferro
Weber Bahia vs. Mouth.
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-> Nicolás Romano was champion with Fuerza Regia de México
