The Georgian player of Lenovo Tenerife, Gio Shermadini, has not been able to enter Russia with his teammates and has had to spend the night in an armchair at the airport in the city of Nyzhni Novgorod, where the final phase of the FIBA Champions League is played.
This information has been known through the Canarian also Marcelinho Huertas, who has posted on his Instagram a photo of the sofa where Shermadini spent the night.
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In the photo, the Brazilian guard has written a text stating: “It is unacceptable that they have denied entry to the best player on the team and that time continues to pass without solving the problem.”
“He had to sleep on this couch before playing a big game and after a long season, I hope this will be solved soon ”, he added.
Huertas has accompanied this message with a “we are with you” as a show of support for the Lenovo Tenerife center, who would have to play the quarterfinal match of the tournament this Thursday.
In the same plane in which the Tenerife entity was traveling, the other two Spanish teams that compete in the eighth phase of the European league, Hereda San Pablo Burgos and Casademont Zaragoza, traveled to Russia and there is no record of any other passenger is in the same circumstance.
Both the Tenerife club and FIBA are working to find a solution.
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