By Aris Barkas/ barkas@eurohoops.net
The Euroleague announced the conclusions of the latest meeting – held on Monday in Barcelona – of the commercial assets shareholders executive board. The growth of the competition is back up by numbers, which you can see here, but the last two paragraphs of the announcement are even more interesting.
According to them “the ECA shareholders board also discussed recent situations involving home games of one of the member clubs, Panathinaikos Athens, and the risks those situations present for fans and other teams visiting the arena. The Board unanimously agreed to officially forward these concerns to the club, while further studying the situation and propose tools to prevent such situations from happening in the future”. So, the board and its members, including Olympiacos and CSKA Moscow are backing the latest punishment of the Greens on the day that the Panathinaikos affiliated Greek newspaper “Prasini” attacks personally Jordi Bertomeu saying that “the king is naked”.
Also “the board was advised of proposed Euroleague by-law changes. Among them would be teams who do not qualify to the Top 16 joining the Last 16 of the Eurocup and a requirement for A-licence clubs to average 8,000 paying fans or show significant two-year growth to retain their licence”.