CAS rejects Crvena Zvezda's request to provisionally use Campazzo in EuroLeague games / News - Basketnews.com

Facundo Campazzo will remain inactive in EuroLeague games, after the International Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) rejected Crvena Zvezda's request to impose provisional measures.

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After the EuroLeague's ban onCrvena Zvezda Meridianbet Belgrade that deprives the Serbian club of the right to register the Argentinian point guard by the end of February, Red Star appealed to the International Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne.

Zvezda have asked CAS to suspend EuroLeague's ban on players' registration until the final decision and to be given the opportunity to use Campazzo until a final verdict has been reached. But the court in Lausanne did not agree to impose provisional measures in Campazzo's case and rejected Zvezda's request.

The club from Belgrade has the right to appeal to the same body until January 23.

There is a good chance that Campazzo will play in the EuroLeague before March 1. The only option is to appeal after EuroLeague's acting CEO, Marshall Glickman, refused to use his powers to grant the player amnesty.

"The only authority that I have as the CEO is amnesty. It means you're making the whole thing go away as though it never happened. That's what it means," Glickman explained to BasketNews in an interview.

"It wasn't a question of, 'Can Campazzo play or not play.' It wasn't anything to do with Campazzo. We have to uphold the integrity of the system, particularly in a situation where we're doing precisely what the Management Control Commission asked us to do. So I didn't feel that it was at all appropriate for the CEO to step in and change something that had been going on for quite some time," Glickman declared.

EuroLeague has temporarily banned the registration of new players and coaches, but in early January, a new decision extended the ban to February 28.

"The sanctions have been issued in relation to the gravity of the offenses committed, including certain debts owed to players from the current and previous seasons, as well as for the publication of incorrect and inaccurate information that allowed the club to operate despite its irregular financial situation," Euroleague Basketball said in a statement.

For now, Campazzo remains available to coach Ivanovic for the matches in the ABA League and will miss the EuroLeague duels against Zalgiris Kaunas, Partizan, Virtus Bologna, EA7 Emporio Armani Milan, Maccabi Tel Aviv and ALBA Berlin.

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