In a year when the men's and women's national basketball teams of Montenegro are expected to perform at Eurobasket, when the younger teams will also have obligations during the summer, although all the younger registered teams, except for the women's junior team, will play in a lower tier, the B division, tectonic changes will occur in the Basketball Association of Montenegro (KSCG).
While the women's basketball team will play in the European Championship for the eighth time in a row, and the men's team for the fifth time in history and the third in a row, the Montenegrin basketball house will be preparing for early elections, because the current president, Jelena Dubljević, resigned after 18 months in that position, although her mandate, according to the Constitution, lasts four years.
Jelena Dubljević's resignation comes after a turbulent period in the Federation, and the key factor was a disagreement with people from the Bemax company, who are sponsors of several men's and women's basketball clubs in Montenegro.
Their support was crucial in the appointment of Jelena Dubljević as president of the KSCG 18 months ago. She defeated the then president Nikola Peković in the election race by a majority of delegates (42 to 38).
In other words - those who brought her to the head of the Basketball Association have now "taken her chair away".
This was clear in early February, on the eve of the final tournament of the Montenegrin Cup. At that time, the Buducnost Bemax Women's Basketball Club announced that it and its branches would boycott the competition, because the national team was played by women's basketball players who were without a club at that time, not Buducnost Bemax players.
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The KSCG Working Assembly was not held because there was no quorum. This was followed by mostly unsigned media reports regarding the sale of KSCG official vehicles, and the reaction of the Union.
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As Jelena Dubljević herself says, "media spin".
"I am faced with a brutal and unfounded campaign that has as its ultimate goal the degradation of my personality," she said.
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Jelena Dubljević had to know that the "media spin" she mentions is part of a game she herself agreed to, with the very decision to accept the candidacy and support of the people who had a decisive influence on her appointment. And whose support is no longer there...
She also dedicated part of the statement to the media, thanking them for their "very high-quality cooperation".
Whether that quality cooperation also includes the fact that she did not respond to "Vijesti"'s invitations four months ago for a big, New Year's interview, and that she did not respond to the invitation the other day, to say and let everyone hear what she thinks, is a question for her.
Whether she chose, or evaded the media at the urging of the media, or because of the people who brought her to the position of president of the KSCG, and who have now denied her support, is also a question for her.
Such "cooperation" has not yet been recorded when it comes to the media and one of the most important national sports organizations, in one of our most popular sports.
Although every time since she became the president of the Serbian Football Federation (KSCG), we have encountered a negative response from her side, we will continue to leave the door wide open for Jelena Dubljević, the legend of Montenegrin sports, to say whatever she wants and thinks.
Maybe he'll agree now, when he's no longer at the head of the Basketball Association.
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