Notice through which he notified that FIBA admitted that there was a serious refereeing error at the expense of the team in its away match with Norrkapping for Europe Cupissued it Maroussi.
As reported by the “yellow and black” KAE, the Arbitration Committee of the event admitted that wrongly no foul called on Fridriksson for shots in the last 7.8” of the game and with the score at 72-71 in favor of the home team, who eventually took the victory with 74-71.
However, the Maroussiwhich finally qualified for the next phase of the competition, made it clear that he doesn’t want to dwell more on the incidentunderstanding that human errors happen.
The announcement of KAE Amarousiou:
“Marousi managed to qualify for the round of 16 of the FIBA Europe Cup. on the thread, however, he could not wait until the whole season is over and wait for other results. In a letter, the Refereeing Committee of the event admitted that a serious mistake was made by the referees at the expense of our team, in the away game against Norrköping, who judged the match which ended with a victory of the Swedish team with 74-71.
More specifically, it states that a clean foul was not called on Fredrickson by Hampton 7 seconds and 8 tenths before the end of the game, and while the score was 72-71 in favor of the home team. Based on the foul situation the Icelandic guard would automatically have the right to take 2 shots and therefore, the final phases could have a different outcome.
KAE does not want to dwell more on the incident, it understands that human errors also happen, however it wants to emphasize that it appreciates the honesty with which the organizing authority evaluated the data and considers it important that there is good faith cooperation of all agencies for the progress of basketball ».
Source: Sport Fm
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