Fake Colombian National Team Makes Fun of Russian Federation

The Russian Basketball Federation is facing a serious image problem. The reason? The Friendship Cup, which it organized from August 20 to 26, did not go as expected because IThe Colombian team that participated in the tournament was not a real Colombian team.Yes, there were Colombian players, but they were not national team players selected by the federation of the South American country.

Related? Fine. But let’s take it one step at a time. The Friendship Cup is a tournament organized by the Russian Federation, and this time it invited the Russian BC Parma, the Venezuelan team, and the Colombian team, which did not show its face in either of the two games played. Not at all. They lost to Parma by 100 points (155-53) and to the Venezuelans by more than 40 points (108-57). Incredible results that made the hare jump.

“We didn’t want to deceive anyone and take a team that we beat by 100 points. Naturally, after the first game of this team it was clear that it could not cope with the tasks of the tournament,” the president of the Slavic Federation Andrei Kirilenko told local media immediately after the match with Parma.

As soon as the news of the result spread around the world, The Colombian federation issued a press release stating that none of its members or teams were allowed to play in Russia.. I didn’t know anything, come on. He assured that they had never received an official invitation or given any approval, and that he would sue anyone who misused the name of the Colombian Federation without permission.

Who took part if not a South American sports institution? According to Sports.ru, everything points to a Colombian student living in Kazan, Russia, as the puppet master pulling the strings in the shadows. Cristian David Mosquera Duran, who was seeded 6th in the tournament, used a personal email address to contact him and accept the invitation to the championship. on behalf of the Colombian Federation and under the pseudonym Sofia Orobio. It also seems clear that he hacked the website of his country’s Federation, but this is not entirely clear.

“There is a standard procedure for interaction between federations, contact information can be found on the official FIBA ​​website. Do you really think we’re going down the wrong path? We invited the Venezuelan national team using the same scheme, and the Venezuelan Basketball Federation team arrived,” Kirilenko defended himself to the TASS agency.

They don’t know the details of the deception exactly, but one thing is clear: Mosquera, who had already competed in a tournament in Russia, but in 3×3, managed to get into the tournament organized by the international federation in order to play with friends and live like royalty at the expense of the Russian establishment itself, which paid for your accommodation and travel from Colombia.

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