The FC Barcelona basketball team “has decided not to travel to Saint Petersburg”, where it had to play a Euroleague game, after the events in Ukraine, despite the fact that it initially reported that it would travel after obtaining “guarantees ” of the Euroleague.
“As a result of the information that has appeared in the last few hours about the war between Russia and Ukraine, FC Barcelona has decided not to travel to Saint Petersburg today,” the Barça club reported in a release, published on its website.
The Catalan team specifies that “several meetings with the parties involved are planned this afternoon and a decision will be made in this regard in the coming hours.”
FC Barcelona had planned to travel to Saint Petersburg this Thursday, where on Friday it was going to play its first Euroleague game on Russian soil, before playing a second against CSKA Moscow on Sunday.
The Catalan club had previously told AFP that it was traveling, since “the Euroleague has given guarantees.”
Barça assured in another note that they had decided to travel after having “received a communication from the Euroleague informing them that they must play both games in Russian territory,” Archisport reports.
