The neutrals of the Uruguayan Basketball Federation (FUBB) sanctioned Nacional on Tuesday with the loss of the point of the second semifinal of the Uruguayan League against Aguada and they applied a fine of $ 400 thousand for violation of the sanitary protocol. The sanction must be endorsed by the Superior Council next Monday, January 18.
Now the semifinal of the 2019/2020 League, agreed to the best of five games, is tied 1-1, after the tricolor won the first game by 97-91.
The second match between tricolores and aguateros was suspended on November 27 because cases of covid-19 appeared in the white campus.
The Federation set that match (also that of Urunday Universitario-Trouville) for Tuesday, December 1, but when the teams were on the field, they were suspended by a government decision. Nacional had presented a squad full of youth, since most of its older chips had contracted the virus or were in quarantine.
At that time, the Aguada player Leandro García Morales, blamed this determination on the leaders of Nacional: “This decision surprises me, we never thought they could suspend above the Federation,” he told television, adding: “I I am left without words to explain this role. Everything was distorted and since the team was infected with Nacional, the League ended. All the theater of not playing, playing, I go out to warm up, I put on a shirt with a message from gurises who are old enough to Being my children, they are ridiculous that they do not belong to our basketball. All the mistakes were made by Nacional. Now it’s time to wait and play the game, surely when Nacional wants. “
This Tuesday, January 5, the FUBB issued a statement and in the operative part stated the following:
“1. To declare that the National Football Club (sic) seriously violated the sanitary regulations aimed at the development of the Uruguayan Basketball League 2019/2010, affecting the health of the members of its own team and third parties, as well as causing damage and damages, both sports, institutional, and contractual.
2.Sanction the National Football Club with the loss of the point of the match that had originally been played on November 27, 2020 and its successive extensions, and with the sum of $ 400 thousand, to be deducted from the current account of the referred institution. Suspend Mr. Wilson Pirez, in any function of representation of the Club before this Federation, until December 31, 2022.
The resumption of the semifinals of the Uruguayan League has not yet been defined and depends on the measures that the national government will announce soon “
Pírez worked at Nacional as a compliance officer.
In 13 days Nacional received two fines that exceed $ 1 million since on December 13 the club was fined $ 650 thousand by the Ministry of Public Health for the violation of the AUF sanitary protocol in the framework of an act of indiscipline carried out by players and campus officials.
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