Facundo Campazzo became this Monday, officially, in reinforcement of Red Star, from Serbiaentity with which he will participate in this season of the euroleague Basketball. The Belgrade franchise, which competes in the Adriatic League, offered the 31-year-old point guard from Córdoba a contract for 1.8 million euros net for the remainder of this season and an amount of 2.5 million for the next campaign.
“The experienced 31-year-old point guard from Córdoba, after thorough medical examinations, signed a contract until the end of the 2023-2024 season, and will be a great reinforcement for the Red Star. With the arrival of Campazzo, Red Star is greatly strengthened with a point guard with exceptional speed, vision of the game, many solutions in attack and points in his hand”, the Belgrade team celebrated.
campazzo he became a free agent last November, when the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks decided to cut the player, after having participated in just 10 games in the American league season. However, the former Peñarol de Mar del Plata player has “a termination clause next summer (June 2023) for only 50,000 euros,” according to the Marca site.
Real Madrid, the club in which Campazzo remained until mid-2020, had the option called the “right of first refusal”, which consisted of matching the offer made by the Serbian entity and keeping the player. But the club from the Spanish capital preferred not to make any movement and the Cordovan undertook a trip to Serbia. The truth is that, despite what has been said, Real Madrid still has a receivable from Campazzo or from those who manage it (the Octagon agency) for an amount close to 2.6 million euros for the termination clause that was paid two years ago for the Cordovan to sign with the Denver Nuggets, at the beginning of his stage in the nba.
The base of the Argentine national team arrived in Belgrade on Saturday night and since Monday he has been training with the team led by DT Dusko Ivanovic. He will have as a partner the also Argentine Luca Vildozawho arrived a few months ago from the Milwaukee Bucks.
Red Star (Crvena Zvezda, in Serbian) seeks to correct some small irregularities that it maintains to register the basketball player in the Euroleague and allow him to his debut in the maximum continental competition this Thursdayin the duel against Olympiacos, in Athens.
But, if it is not possible to solve these paper issues, Campazzo’s debut in the Serbian entity would take place on Friday the 30th, in the clash against Barcelona, scheduled at the Aleksandar Nikolic Hall in Belgrade. The base of the Argentine national team lands in a group that is in a great moment in the Euroleague, where after the arrival of Dusko Ivanovic to the bench he chained a six-fight win streak, which ended in the last match against Armani Milano. With his signing, Estrella Roja has an interesting pair of Argentine point guards, with Luca Vildoza as the other possible director of the game.
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Facundo Campazzo is already a Red Star player: the return of the national team point guard to European basketball