hi there.
i know most of the members here are americans , but i have something to say aboute europe that is really annoying me, and it is regarding europian basketball and pollitics.
as you know or you dont know we play basketball in europe as well ,although not the number one team sports
(soccer being the first
) ,but we play and quite good ,and as an evidence is the number of europian players in the n.b.a
(stoyakovich,pau gasol,novitzki
).
isarel, although not part of europe
(geography
), participate in all of the europian sport events and championships. basketball is the number one sports in israel , our state champions, maccabi tel-aviv , who the won europian team campionship
(the euroleague
) 3 times and was 7 times runner up ,is facing strong problem.
to get to the point, this year final-four games of the euroleague are suppose to be held in tel-aviv
(this event is being planed for 2 years
), maccabi tel-aviv is in a great position to get there , and to win the cup for the 4th time , but this time in her own arina infront of home crowd.
few days ago the hamas leader was killed in gaza city by the israeli army , and now teams from spain are calling to change the location of the final-four event since it is not safe.
have they already forgot that 190 people were killed in madrid 2 weeks ago , or that terror acts occured in turkey2 months ago.
the thing is not that they are affraid ,but that they do not want maccabi tel-avib to win this year championship and they will do anything possible to prevent it from happening, and by doing that they let two things happen:
1
) they degrade the expression FAIRPLAY.
2
)they let terrorism achive its goals.
thank you if you had the patience to read this long thread , with so many grammer mistakes.
shay cahal, an angry maccabi tel-aviv fan.
Edited by shaycahal 2004-03-24 6:59 PM