Cantù-Brindisi cannot be played: game postponed

Refused Cantù-Brindisi

The A2 Series match between Acqua S. Bernardo Cantù and Valtur Brindisi, initially scheduled for Wednesday, Oct. 2, è was postponed to next week: it will be played, again at PalaDesio, next Wednesday, Oct. 9. The decision è was made due to the impossibility of the Apulian team to reach the venue, given what happened on Tuesday morning at the Orio al Serio airport, where the damage sustained by an airliner after landing (without physical consequences for passengers) forced the cancellation of more than one hundred flights.

"Due to the inability of the visiting team to reach the venue in time – writes Pallacanestro Cantù -, following the repercussions on air traffic of today’s accident at Orio al Serio Airport, the Italian Basketball Federation has ordered the postponement of the game between Acqua S.Bernardo Cantù and Valtur Brindisi, initially scheduled for Oct. 2 at PalaDesio. The match will be played on Wednesday, Oct. 9 at 8:30 p.m.".

"The companyà Valtur Brindisi – writes instead the companyà messapica – informs that following today’s accident occurred on the landing strip of the Orio al Serio Airport, resulting in the suspension of air traffic, cancellation of flights on the route Brindisi-Bergamo and impossibilityà to land at other airports in the Milan area, it was not possible to reach the city of Cantà in time to play in a regular manner the match scheduled for Wednesday, Oct. 2 at 8 pm:45".

"We thank the Italian Basketball Federation, the National Basketball League and the companyà Pallacanestro Cantù for the cooperation and the’acceptance of the request for postponement of the game" concludes, in its own note, the New Basket Brindisi, which therefore will remainà in Puglia until the next away game.