The President of the FBU explained his position in the conflict with the President of Prometheus
President of the Basketball Federation of Ukraine Mikhail Brodsky reacted to the statement of President Prometheus Vladimir Dubinskywhich the refused to declare the team for next season championship of Ukraine.
“I consider Mr. Dubinsky’s appeal to the basketball community as a false insult to me personally and to the entire Basketball Federation of Ukraine and, at the same time, blackmail. I don’t want to go into details – I’m disgusted, but as to why Prometheus should pay, in addition to the usual contribution of 40 thousand hryvnias, an additional 4.5 million, I’ll tell you in detail now.
“I will say right away that I have seen a lot of people like Dubinsky Ukrainian basketball in its 30-year history, it is not the first and not the last. It all started with the fact that the FBU applied for Prometheus to the Champions League for the club to participate in this tournament, having previously discussed this with him.
“After that, Mr. Dubinsky called me and unexpectedly asked me to play in the Eurocup. Everyone understands that this is an unofficial organization that does not cooperate with FIBA and is a private tournament. Obviously, I did not support this wish and, to put it mildly, it outraged me. Since spring, the FBU has been working with FIBA on preferential performance of our teams in the European Championship and international tournaments under the auspices of this organization.”
“Actually, the entire basketball system in Ukraine is built under the FIBA vertical. At the same time, our national champion, having previously applied for participation in the Champions League, still enters the Eurocup – this is a frank spit in the direction of FIBA and FBU. We publicly apologized to FIBA, I personally had a dialogue with the president of FIBA-Europe, Turgay Demirel, during the European Championship. Of course, Prometheus has nothing to do with this, as well as with the image of Ukrainian basketball.”
“Today I understand that the club does not want to play in the Ukrainian championship, it is much more comfortable for them in the Latvian-Estonian league. For several years, Prometheus received his own name thanks to his bags of money, but money cannot buy everything. It seems that Mr. Dubinsky did not understand this.”
“They wanted to buy up the Ukrainian clubs playing in the Super League and influence the situation in the championship and even the executive committee, this was the next step of the patrons. To buy it, of course, is loudly said – to throw a handout in the amount of one million hryvnias. At first it was about three clubs that were supposed to receive money from Prometheus, but I think this was just the beginning.
“Following, Prometheus showed up in the aforementioned Latvian-Estonian league and in the summer began stories in the Baltic states about his grandiose budget of 200 million hryvnias. Ainars (Bagatskis) recruits me and says that Prometheus’s people are walking around Riga and terrifying everyone, that they will double the club’s budget and will drive everyone here at -40. This is at a time when we are asking for help from the Latvian authorities to organize a training gathering of the national team. And in general, in a war, these are very incorrect statements. ”
“By the way, even now no one bothers Prometheus to fulfill his promise and help Zaporozhye, Nikolaev and Kryvbas. Considering the above, the FBU Executive Committee voted for an additional contribution of 4.5 million hryvnias to the Ukrainian Championship for Prometheus, as he plays in parallel in the European Cup tournament, which is not held under the auspices of FIBA.”
“The Executive Committee also decided that the entire amount of the additional Prometheus contribution will go to help Ukrainian clubs to participate in the Ukrainian Championship. I believe that this amount is very small for the current situation, Dubinsky would also pull 100 million.
“Now Prometheus has to do three things: pay a fee of 40,000 hryvnia for participation in the championship, pay an additional fee of 4.5 million hryvnia and provide the first pages of the players’ contracts. And then Mr. Dubinsky can have as much fun as he likes. It seems that he is allowed to do this, because he has a significant roof, if he allows himself such statements. We saw his behavior without a roof.
Recall that today the president of Prometheus Volodymyr Dubinsky said that the club is not going to participate in the basketball championship of Ukraine (Super League) 2022/23.
The reason for the refusal is the requirement from the FBU to pay an application fee for the national championship in the amount of 4.5 million hryvnias. At the same time, for all other clubs, the fee is set at 40,000 hryvnia.
Earlier, the FBU approved the regulations for the upcoming 2022/23 Super League season.
Source: Sportarena
