Ataman offers Euroleague solution: Let’s finish the season in one location
The strategist of the current management team, and at the same time last year’s Euroleague Basketball finalist, Anadolu Efes of Constantinople, Ergin Ataman, calls on the competition management to seriously consider the possibility of finishing the season in one location. “The matches would, of course, be played without the presence of spectators but with a television broadcast for the whole world,” Ataman says, among other things.
By the end of the regular season in the elite Euroleague Basketball, there are six more competition rounds left, and last year’s finalist, Anadolu Efes of Constantinople, who is well led by local expert Ergin Ataman, is in the lead.
The temperamental 54-year-old has called on Euroleague executives, led by President Jordi Bertomeu, to consider proposing that the regular part of the competition as well as the playoffs be played in one location. “There are countries in Europe that have not been affected as much by the coronavirus epidemic as by the others. I am thinking, above all, of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Greece and Croatia as well,” Ataman said in a Turkish media interview, which sees further steps in the impeccable organization of teams and logistics at the arrival stage. “I must first emphasize that such decisions will have to wait until the end of May. I do not believe that the Euroleague management will go down before that date. If we make an agreement to deal with the season in one location, then special air services will have to be organized with the aim of providing the highest level of security for the teams. It should be housed in one, at most two hotel complexes, and the matches would be played without the presence of spectators but with live television broadcasts throughout the world, “said the strategist of the currently leading team of the most elite club basketball team. competitions in Europe and at the end added:
“Sports will play a very important role in the coming months. People are already tired and fed up with watching movies, sequels and playing video games. So we have to strive to find the most optimal way to revive sports. If that happened, then the teams would need at least three to four weeks of preparation before the season goes on. I think the Euroleague should follow the messages and decisions of the European Football Federation (UEFA), which does these things tactfully and with the right degree of feeling. “
