The president of the organization, Mikhail Brodsky, believes that some players have no reason to reject the team.
When the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine die at the front, the athletes have no right to neglect the call to the national team. This is what the President of the Basketball Federation of Ukraine Mikhail Brodsky said.
According to him, Ukraine could have performed better in the pre-qualification tournament for the Olympic Games, but the refusal of top players to come to the team prevented it.
“I want to say a few words about our “Americans.” Skapintsev – I don’t understand you, Dima. Unfortunately, in my basketball school they are only involved in training players, not individuals. As individuals, grow up you with your families. But it seems to me that you signed a contract in early August, after which it was possible to get on a plane and fly to the national team … I don’t know the details of the contract, is there a ban playing in the national team…
I can say the same to Saint. Yes, I want to sign a contract in the US or maybe it’s Greece. Perhaps, playing in the national team without a contract was dangerous, but Kravtsov played. You are not poor people, and let it rest on your conscience. Personal well-being is important, but duty to the Motherland must be given, guys. I’m not talking about all the others.
Alex Len. I want to believe that he really can’t, but the epic with the green card has been going on for a long time.
The rest, that after the operation, there are no questions for them. Lipovoy, Sanon, Gerun provided information. I remember school when we brought certificates that we were not allowed to run, jump or do anything else for two weeks or a month. If a person really wants, he gets strength in himself. I do not want to think that the conflict with the press in the leadership Prometheus somehow influenced the decision of Lipovoy or Sanon.
How do you not want to play for the national team now, if peers are dying … I don’t want to say the number, we don’t know, but dozens of people die every day … when children die. It seems to me that each of you must do everything to go and fight for the Motherland … not under bullets, where you did not get the will of fate, especially, thanks to basketball. Just come, perhaps to risk harm, but to give our citizens of our country some momentary sense of success, satisfaction, joy. This is what you should do. In our time, you can’t just take it and not go to the national team, as Medvedenko did before, now everyone should give their people what they can and can do.
I hope that this tournament in Istanbul will make us think and think about what is happening and that it will not happen again. We have a good teaching staff – Ukrainians work hard. Let’s be united somehow and we won’t do it again,” Brodsky quoted the official FBU website as saying.
It will be remembered that Ukraine lost to Turkey in the prequalification for the 2024 Olympic Games.
Source: korrespondent
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