The Bohemios club closed its doors temporarily, this Wednesday, for economic reasons that were aggravated in recent months, due to the covid-19 pandemic.
This was communicated by the institution founded in 1932 on its social networks: “Given the economic situation of the club derived from recent years, worse in recent months, and by virtue of the health measures adopted by the Executive Branch, due to the growth of cases assets of covid-19 that our country is going through, this Institution is forced to close its doors temporarily, as of the end of today. As regards officials, the Institution will process the request for I amparo for unemployment benefit. We will closely follow the evolution of the situation to communicate the steps to follow in the near future. From now on we reiterate Bohemios’ commitment to its officials, partners and the community. “
The club had already been hit economically. In 2018, the basketball team was crowned champion of El Metro 2018 and obtained promotion for the Uruguayan League 2019-2020, but for budgetary reasons it declined to play that tournament. It fell to the third category.
Bohemios was federated for years in various sports, although his signature discipline was always basketball, in which he was federal champion in 1963, 1981, 1983, 1984 and 1987. In the glorious 1980s, led by one of the best players in the history of Uruguay, Horacio “Tato” López, also won the Winter tournaments in 1983, 1984 and 1988 and the Liguillas 1981, 1983, 1984 and 1987.
In the pandemic, the clubs had to remain closed from March to May, when they resumed outdoor activities and progressively reactivated until the pools were even reopened. However, on December 1, the government again decreed the closure of the institutions, a measure it rejected on December 16.
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