"I have already spoken with the team before the match against Alba Berlin and I told them that we will not go to Russia", declared Parker in front of the media after the meeting lost by the Rhone team (82-80 ).
"With our values, those of the club and mine, never in our life will we go to Russia next week. After we have a meeting with the Euroleague, with all the clubs, we will see what they tell us. but as Asvel, we will not go to Russia. We are in 2022 and we cannot accept things like that. It is nonsense, "he added.
"Compared to what was happening in our club, I wanted to reassure everyone, the players, the management but also everyone's families. When you get up in the morning and you see things like that , we are hallucinating. It was still planned that we stay a week for two matches. We are not going to send our team there for a week with everything that is happening at the moment, "insisted Tony Parker.
"We're all a bit shocked and trying to figure it out. I don't know what happened yet. We're shocked, we're trying to gather information. At the moment, I still don't know exactly. the why of what is happening there," admitted the Villeurbannais leader.
About the fairness of the competition at the end of the season, Tony Parker does not want to worry.
"There are things like this that happen and we adapt. It goes beyond sport. Even if we had been in a position to play the play-offs, it doesn't change anything," added the former player from San Antonio and Charlotte, whose club he leads ranks 15th in the Euroleague with a series of six defeats in a row.
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