The start of the women’s basketball league Forssa gave their league game against Vimpel’s bet. The start appealed to the basketball league by the fact that the team had only four players available.
The Women’s Basketball League’s lower sequel struggle between Vimpel Veto and Forssa was canceled from Saturday because the basketball union announced the away team gave up the match.
Forssa applied for the transfer of the match because, according to the club, only four players had access to. However, six players in the early Forssa league line -up still played on the previous night in the Division match in the line -up of Turku in the Division Feenix Basket.
Competition Director of the Basketball Association Tom Westerholm tells Sports that Forssa only applied for a transfer on Saturday morning.
– The start of Forssa was approaching the competition manager after morning by SMS, stating that the team would not have enough players for the match.
An hour later, the Basketball Association received an email on the subject, and before eight in the morning, the competition section gathered to solve the fate of the transfer application. According to Westerholm, there were no prerequisites for the match transfer.
– There is also no technical loss because Forssa had no evidence of sudden absences such as illnesses or the like. The causes of absences were different.
After nine in the morning, Forssa announced that he would give up the match. Chairman Juha Karjalainen Absence has been a challenge for the representative team throughout the season.
– We have had some deficiencies here throughout the year and now there have been injuries that, unfortunately, became more concretized here, Karjalainen comments to Sports.
Forssa is last in the lower sequel, as the team has won only two of the season’s 24 matches.
Forssa suffered his previous defeat a week ago on Saturday, after which it became clear that the team no longer had the opportunity to raise its investment in the series.
“A fully exceptional case”
According to Westerholm, the competition director of the Basketball Association, a capital gain in the women’s or men’s basketball league is extremely rare.
– This is a completely exceptional and special case. I’ve been involved now for thirteen years now and nothing has ever happened.
According to Westerholm, a technical loss was defined by the Korona time due to epidemic-type illnesses. Technical losses have been imposed in the next few years.
– However, I do not remember that today’s profit has ever happened in the main main series of adults.
Forssa’s transfer decision has been transferred to the consideration of the Rules and Disciplinary Unit of the Basketball Association, which will decide on the follow-up sanctions in the next few days.
– According to the competition rules, the extreme is to close the series. Mild sanctions are penalty and fines.
The home team Vimpel’s bet is also entitled to claim damages from the beginning of Forssa.
– This is probably a big disappointment for Vimpel’s bet when the team could not organize the match they had planned. There was a match host and all sorts of activation built around the match, Westerholm comments.
According to Karelia, the decision of the Basketball Association is justified. According to the chairman, the future of Forssa is still open.
– Now let’s see how to continue this. We have the last game on Wednesday and should have enough players.
The beginning of Forssa has played in the women’s main series for 41 years in a row. It has won a total of eight women’s Finnish championships, which shares the title of the club, which has won the most championships in series history. The latest championship came to Forssa in 1999.