Chemist President: “Prometheus has not taken off yet. And the Alchemist ceased to exist”

President of Khimik from Yuzhny and head of the Odessa Regional Basketball Federation Sergey Nazarenko He talked about the situation at the club and also talked about the possibility of Prometheus being removed from the championship. He said that especially the fans will see a club from the Odessa region in the Super League, but it will not be Khimik.

– Today I can say that the Yuzhnensk “Chemist” has ceased to exist for several reasons.

– But our region will not be without basketball – soon we will draw up a letter and surrender as a team of the Odessa region. The foundation of the team will be Odessa BİPA. Accordingly, the name of the team is planned – BIPA-Odessa region. Based on the results of the meetings in the district administration, the Odessa district administration took such a decision.

Partial funding has already been found, and we continue to seek sponsors. The Odessa region has always been considered a sports district, but now it so happened that in team sports actually only one football club remained. Therefore, it was decided to help build a basketball team. We hope everything will work out for us.

– Are you planning a team to play in the Super League or are you talking about the Major League?

– This is a Super League team. We used to pull the Major League without question with Khimik or BIPA, but now we’re talking about the Superleague team. At the moment, we are looking for sponsors by joint efforts, joining forces in Odessa, Yuzhny and other cities of the region.

– It is clear that your team is still in development, but do you have any idea about the coaching issue and the formation of the roster?

– Yes, we already have a certain understanding of the head coach of the team, there are players who are in Odessa, whose negotiations are ongoing. Contracts are not signed until the team is formed – I don’t want to name names.

– Most of the players who spent last season in the Khimik structure and the team’s coaches moved to Prometheus in the summer. But the other day, the head of the team announced his desire to refuse to participate in the national championship. What is your view on this situation?

– Officially “Prometheus” was not filmed. As far as I understand, there is no other information apart from the statement made by the president and the team on Facebook. My opinion: “Prometheus” will not be removed. Of course, there are issues that need to be resolved during the negotiation process between the club and FBU, they are being discussed.

But I know how he helped “Prometheus” during the formation of the Federation, then everything was not as smooth as it seemed. They’re great, they’ve improved so quickly, but now I find it wrong to say we’re good and you’re bad.

There is also the issue of children. In tough times, you probably need to think about domestic basketball and kids, not legionnaires and European cups. We do not know their plans, maybe they will want to create a foreign club on the basis of Prometheus, conditionally play in Latvia or Monaco. Then please. But if you represent Ukraine, you should also think about the future. Moreover, these are incomparable amounts.

We also went to meet Prometheus once, when several of our players signed contracts. They had no right to do that then, they had to pay us compensation. Then we had contracts with all these players. This is a gross violation of the rules. But we did not raise this issue, we will meet with them. As we were asked at the time, the club is in the process of being formed, so it needs help.

And even now, when Prometheus has recruited a group of young players and coaches from us, you can call us. Of course our club is on its knees, but you can give our players a minimum compensation to fix some existential issues.

We are grateful to the men, so we do not want to interfere with their development, God bless them. So the club made a detachment and they broke up. We were once in similar situations and needed to solve such problems – and even in difficult times for the club we always at least made up for something.

– Are you ready to take players back from your club if Vladimir Dubinsky doesn’t change his mind? “Prometheus»who played last season “Pharmacist»?

– Of course we are ready, there is not even a question here.