Waiver of the Serie A2 championship Blue Basketball Bergamo it upset the ranking and also led to several comments from industry insiders. The president of Herons Montecatini Andrea Luchi wrote on Facebook: “I have repeatedly argued, even in heated tones, that the conditions, not even minimal, of sustainability do not exist in Italian basketball. The various components only think of “partisan” interests and no one makes an effort to see and address the problems with a true team spirit and with a medium-long term vision. Which must necessarily start from the acceptance of the serious problems on the table and not from the defense of one’s own backyard.
The Sports Labor Reform is conceptually correct but not sustainable by clubs that earn zero from sports rights, zero from television rights, zero from player transactions and who are forced to play in facilities (when they have them…) that are old, obsolete, and not capable of generating the revenues that could represent pure oxygen for the sports clubs themselves. With the awareness that the Palazzo dello Sport today represents the first asset of a sports club, ahead of the second. We have fallen behind, we are on the margins of the European rankings when we have dominated them for decades. We must ALL take a deep bath of humility and start rewriting a new, completely different story. By stopping arguing and dividing us. If we really care about the good of our basketball. In deeds and not in speeches.”
THE REPLICA – Replying to Luchi’s post is Marco Tajanapresident of Legnano Basketball: “Andrea I marry everything you say but then if in the national B you make a team with 700 thousand salaries giving at least 50k as if it were raining and everyone, how can you complain!! These are absurd salaries that ruin the system! Then, unlike others, you have them and find them but the system is the same unsustainable and the companies are first and foremost the cause of this disaster!! If, for example, those in charge do not impose minimum rules on the systems and require that part of the budget be invested in the system…”.
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Iacopo Of Santis
Editor of Pianeta Basket, 26 years old. Always connected to the world of basketball with a focus on news and analysis.
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