Representatives of the national team accuse Georgia players of a fight after the match.
Scandal at EuroBasket 2022. The Turkish national team may leave the tournament. Representatives of Ankara accused their rivals in the group stage – Georgia, of a fight in the room under the tribune. Omer Onan, vice-president of the Turkish Basketball Federation, spoke about it after the match.
He also said that if FIBA does not provide the camera recordings from the room under the stands, the team will withdraw from the additional draw of the tournament.
“When Furkan Korkmaz was walking along the corridor to the locker room with our coach, he was attacked by Georgian players, who did not actively participate in the match, including the dismissed Duda Sanadze and the police. You cannot attack a player who went to the locker room. At the end of the match, about 30 policemen pushed us into the fray, we got into a fight with the official Georgia police.
I am talking to FIBA and I also told FIBA officials. Let no one deceive himself and think that we are fools. They will give us all the camera recordings from the corridor. If these notes do not reach us, we will withdraw from this contest. No matter where you look, there is nothing to cling to. Shengelia, who did not play, and three people sitting on the bench went to the locker room. At the end of the match, the police were standing in front of our dressing room. They seem to protect us, but they push us all the time. We were going to punch each other,” Onan was quoted as saying by Eurohoops.
Note that the Georgians defeated the Turks in a group match at EuroBasket. The main time was not announced the winner, the teams ended it in a draw 68:68. The strongest was recognized only after two overtimes, as a result of which the scoreboard showed 88:83 in favor of the Georgian team.
At the same time, in the fourth quarter of the match there was a fight between the players Furkan Korkmaz and Duda Sanadze, after which they were both removed from the site.
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Source: korrespondent
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