In my last 3 blogs I was trying to introduce you with international basketball talking only about bright and positive things. I feel now is a time to show some bad things about this sport outside of the U.S. and at the same time to spread around this story because I feel people from the U.S. are not informed well about this topic and it also affect them because their basketball national team was also participating in this event that I am going to talk about.
One of the most discussed referees’ “mistakes” in sports in the past few years happened at the basketball world championship in Turkey in 2010. In the semifinal game between the host team Turkey and Serbian national team, there were four seconds left of the game, when one of the Turkish players stepped on the sideline, but the referees did not call anything allowing the Turkish national team player, Tunceri, score in the last second and bring the one-point victory to his team which make them advance to the final game against
the team USA.People do make mistakes in life, but this one was very obvious that the referee who was right next to the play when Tunceri stepped on the line did not call out of bounce on purpose so the host team can make it to the finals. It was not just this one call that could have turned things around in the game, but also many other unfair calls that were given to the Turkish players in the second half. For a person such as me who was watching the game, it was clear that the host team was being pushed by the referees who did everything they could so Turkey can make the finals.
As this blog stated many clear fouls for the Turkish team were not called, and some very lame once were called against the Serbian players. This blog might be a little bit too offensive, but this is the way many people felt after watching that game, and I am not talking about Serbia fans, but anybody else who wants justice in sports.
One more ridiculous thing that happened regarding this game is the decision that FIBA (International Basketball Federation), just apologized to the Serbian national team after seeing the tape of the game, but they did not change anything about it. In my opinion now is too late because the players, buy the way they were the youngest team in that tournament with average age of 22 years, are still recovering from that undeserved loss and in my opinion form these kind of things it is just impossible to fully recover
This game is a great example of not being fair, and how referees were pushing one team to win the game. At the end I just hope that FIBA learned their lesson and that they are not going to make same mistake twice when it comes choosing the reefs that are very important part of this beautiful game.
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