Christmas again, controversy arises again in Fuenlabrada Basketball. If a year ago, with the first team still in ACB, there was tension due to a situation of non-payments that led to the departure of players like Dusan Ristic, This time the crisis, beyond sports, is located in the board of directors. And it is that an exchange of accusations between the executive president of Fuenlabrada, Germán Cea, and the Board of Directors of the entity has caused everything to blow up on Christmas Eve.
An alleged accusation, a statement, the “unanimous” dismissal of Cea and the response of the until now executive president. The chronology of the controversy in Fuenlabrada Basketballa historical figure of the sport of hands in Spain that is not going through its best moment, neither sportingly nor non-sportingly.
When the Endesa League ended last June and, although it was already mathematically complete, it was officially consummated the relegation to the LEB Oro of Baloncesto Fuenlabrada, everything changed. Given this, Germán Cea was appointed executive president of the entity, while José Quintana continued as honorary president and Fernando Polaina as president of the club’s Board of Directors. However, the discrepancies between the first and the second did not take long to arrive.
Added to that is that sports results do not even accompany the first team (accumulates nine defeats and only five victories in LEB Oro and occupies thirteenth position) not even in the quarry. But, in addition, also an alleged accusation against Cea that ended up blowing up absolutely everything.
A first statement from Germán Cea
He Thursday, December 21, Germán Cea released a statement in which accused the honorary president and the president of the Board of Directors of an “obvious attempt to intimidate” through an “alleged accusation against him.” According to Cea, the previous week he had received “a serious complaint from the mother of a youth player”, something that the until now executive president called “absolutely false.”
Although, in his opinion, they had used this to demand that he present his resignation and negotiate his departure from the club in order to “prevent the accusation from coming to light”. Given this, Cea assured that everything was a ruse that “has the sole objective” of displacing him from his responsibilities as head of the club “to protect his personal interests and that he had a forceful response.”
“If due to my professional or personal management there is any indication of criminal commission, Where they have to go is to report it to the courts. and that is where I will have to defend my management and honorability. As it cannot be otherwise, and given the falsehood of the alleged accusations, I do not accept the termination of my contract,” Cea said in said statement.
The call of the Board of Directors to dismiss Cea
The story is that said statement from Cea came as a result of the fact that summoned to the Board of Directors of Baloncesto Fuenlabrada for the morning of this Friday, December 22. An appointment whose agenda item was the dismissal of Cea. So it was.
Early on Friday afternoon, Fuenlabrada Basketball released a statement announcing Cea’s dismissal and pointing him out for various issues.. First, he was accused of the “accumulation of historic disasters in the club’s youth system” in just four months of management. “As is known, Cea proclaimed himself responsible for the quarry at the beginning of the season, making structural decisions without consensus, such as the refusal to maintain the contracts of Salva Guardia and Manolo Antolínez, with the position of quarry director currently vacant. The Board of Directors considers unacceptable that teams in the EBA, Junior A or Cadet A categories accumulate defeats and relegations in a quarter“, was stated in the writing.
Likewise, the statement that Cea had released was mentioned, which they considered to have been “with the sole objective of hurt and discredit the club and, therefore, to all the people who have been part of it for many years. In these situations, the loss of confidence in Cea is evident, which is why today we voted unanimously in favor of his dismissal. “And, againsupported the action of Quintana and Polaina of having transferred to Cea the alleged complaint of a mother from the quarry and trying to get him to step aside.
Cea’s reply and his complaint before the Court
After knowing the decision of the Board of Directors, Cea issued another statement. And in this, in addition to pointing out Quintana again – he considers that the Council acted “under the influence” of him -, He assured that he would take all members of the Board of Directors to Court. The reason? “Clarify the whole truth” and that “whoever is putting his honor, image and good name at stake, pay for what he has done,” according to the statement.
Besides, Cea maintained his position that all the facts “are false”that “there are no serious attributable acts”, nor the “complaint of a mother”, since, according to him, everything is “to try to obtain her resignation.”
In this way, Fuenlabrada Basketball, as already happened in 2022, He spends Christmas again immersed in a great controversywhich fans do not stop lamenting through social networks.
Noelia Gómez Mira is a basketball specialist for Relevo, where she reviews what happens in competitions such as the ACB and the Euroleague. She has been the second female speaker in the history of professional basketball in Spain and the only one during the six years who gave voice to Covirán Granada. In her career she has collaborated with the ACB as a speaker for the Endesa Mini Cup and was section chief in the newspaper Granada Hoy, where she covered other types of information such as Operation Líbero against the former president of Granada CF Quique Pina. Originally from Salobreña, she has a degree in Audiovisual Communication from the University of Granada, with a Master’s degree in New Interactive Media and Multimedia Journalism. …
2023-12-23 20:22:03
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