By Stefan Djordjevic/ info@eurohoops.net
The legendary coach of Partizan NIS Belgrade in Dusko Vujosevic talked to Nova.rs about EuroLeague and its A license as well as how that influenced his former club’s decision to stay on the same path, instead of opting for FIBA.
He claimed that EuroLeague CEO Jordi Bertomeu promised an A license to a Belgrade team – Partizan or Crvena Zvezda – and that exactly it is one of the main reasons Partizan decided to stay and try to reach that goal.
“There is a promise by Bertomeu that one team from Belgrade will get an A license for ten years starting from next season (2021/2022), not the one that follows. A story began about how FIBA is fighting to regain the competition, it is the only umbrella organization in any sport that has lost its strongest competition, and it is its own fault for this position of European basketball, I’ve already bored myself with that story. Partizan had a decent offer to go to FIBA, but that would’ve paved the way for Crvena Zvezda to get the license, which is still more or less open. And they had to refuse that and stay in the race for the highest quality European competition where Partizan belongs to both by tradition and by everything.”