CSKA’s Georgian player, Tornike Shengelia, who has threatened to leave the Russian club. /
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The Euroleague announces that “in the event that the situation does not evolve favorably, all regular season games against said teams will be canceled to configure the league classification”
Russian basketball teams were also suspended from European competitions on Monday. The Euroleague decided that CSKA Moscow, Zenit Saint Petersburg and Unics Kazan, the three representatives in the top continental competition, and Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar, which is participating in the Eurocup, will not play any more matches as a result of the Russian invasion in Ukraine and, “in the event that the situation does not evolve favourably, all regular season games against Russian teams will be canceled to configure the league table”.
The Euroleague agreed last Friday to transfer all the matches of the great continental tournament with the participation of Russian teams against foreign rivals to other venues, but due to international pressure and the refusal of several clubs to face these teams, this Monday saw obliged to decree a ban on their playing again. The CSKA-Real Madrid match was scheduled for Friday, March 4, in Moscow, after the duel that Barça should have played against the current Russian league champion, also in the ex-Soviet capital, had previously been postponed.
Real Madrid, second in the Euroleague standings, had eight games left to finish the regular phase, and Barcelona (leader of the competition) nine, but with the expulsion of the Russians their calendar will be shortened, as will the of Baskonia (penultimate classified), which was going to close the first phase, also against CSKA in Moscow, on April 7. In the Eurocup, Joventut will also not face Lokomotiv Kuban on the last day of the group stage.
