UCAM will return from Istanbul tomorrow without playing against Darüssafaka in the game that was to be played this afternoon, which has been canceled due to the earthquakes
The international community is shocked by the earthquake that hit Turkey, with its epicenter in the city of Gaziantep, on Monday morning. It is one of two earthquakes that have devastated lives in the Ottoman country and neighboring Syria, which was the second of two strong earthquakes measuring 7.8 and 7.5 on the Richter scale respectively, and one that killed one last night. had left behind tolls of over 3,600. This number could grow as rescue teams continue to search for the countless people trapped in entire building collapses in urban areas.
A tragedy, the greatest of these features in Turkey since the 1939 Erzincan earthquake, which has paralyzed all activity in a country still in shock at what happened. In between, of course, basketball. And it is that, following the trend of other sports competitions, the Champions League announced yesterday afternoon the suspension (provisional, without alternative date) of the match that should have been played this afternoon by UCAM against Darüssafaka on the third matchday of group L of the ‘top 16’ of the Champions League.
Both the earthquake and news of the suspension caught the university expedition on Turkish soil. However, the UCAM has avoided the tragedy, as the Darüssafaka is located in the capital Istanbul, in the west of a vast country whose area is larger than that of Spain and France combined, and Gaziantep in the south-east of Turkey, very close to the border with Syria.
UCAM shares some basketball assets with the Turkish Gaziantep team. From this team comes Ryan Luther, who shared a locker room with American shooting guard Milton Doyle, a member of UCAM in the 2018-19 season and who continued his career in the fledgling Australian league that season with the Tasmania JackJumpers.
Players with a past and a future at UCAM met there and left to make way for another basketball player in recent college team history, point guard Conner Frankamp, one of those players his fans barely had to settle for a video screen television in the season of empty stands, 2020-21.
The American is safe and far from danger thanks to the fact that he was in Istanbul just like UCAM, where his team faced Büyükçekmece last weekend. Fortunately, during the journey to Turkey’s western capital, the player was accompanied by his wife and daughter, who were visiting these days, but some of his colleagues had to mourn the loss of friends and family.
Source: La Verdad
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