President CSKA Andrei Vatutin told that the participation of Russian teams in the Euroleague does not seem realistic at the moment, and noted that his European colleagues regret the absence of Russian clubs in the tournament.
Russian clubs have been suspended from participating in the Euroleague since March 2022 due to the situation in Ukraine.
— Is there any progress on the question of CSKA’s return to the Euroleague?
— In Soviet times, when registering a future reader in the library, a kind of card was drawn up, indicating the literary genres that aroused the most interest – fairy tales, adventures, romance novels , detective novels or something else. . So: today, the participation of Russian teams in the Euroleague belongs to the genre of science fiction, or even non-scientific. Before the completion of the SVO, the conditions will certainly not be met to talk in detail about this return.
At the same time, I would like to repeat that colleagues from Euroleague clubs, as well as European fans in personal communication with us, regret the absence of Russian teams and do so with all sincerity. Alas, such a trend towards isolation and sanctions is now in demand all over the world. We continue to communicate with the Euroleague as a shareholder club, contact is constant, and this seems important to me for a future return to the tournament, when it comes. There must be a dialogue,” Vatoutine said in an interview with .
Source : MatchTV
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