In the license dispute between the table tennis Bundesliga and its top club TTC Neu-Ulm, a discussion has taken place. But one thing seems final: the club will no longer play in the Bundesliga.
In the dispute between the table tennis Bundesliga (TTBL) and the top club TTC Neu-Ulm there was a discussion between national player Dimitrij Ovtcharov and Andreas Preuss, head of the supervisory board of the league association. The German Table Tennis Association (DTTB) and Borussia Düsseldorf said on Tuesday that Ovtcharov’s accusation against Düsseldorf’s manager Preuss had turned out to be an overreaction.
Conflict of interest with Düsseldorf manager Preuss?
“It was wrong of me to assume that Andreas, in his position as Chairman of the TTBL Supervisory Board, would achieve personal benefits. I’m sorry about that,” Ovtcharov was quoted as saying in the announcements. Preuss accepted the apology.
Former world number one Ovtcharov had previously spoken out on social media and accused the league of lacking independence. After all, Preuss, as the manager of the biggest rival Borussia Düsseldorf, is also the head of the supervisory board of the league association. Preuss denied the allegations.
Neu-Ulm does not apply for a Bundesliga license
The conflict is part of a larger dispute between TTBL and Ovtcharov’s club. The top club Neu-Ulm had announced that they would withdraw from the table tennis Bundesliga after just four years and concentrate solely on the Champions League in the future. As confirmed by the German Table Tennis Association (DTTB), the people from Neu-Ulm have not applied for a license for the coming Bundesliga season: “Eleven of the twelve clubs in the Table Tennis Bundesliga (TTBL) submitted their license applications for the 2023/24 season on time. The TTC Neu-Ulm does not apply for a license.”
The background to the league withdrawal is a ten-game suspension for the Neu-Ulm players Truls Moregardh and Lin Yun-ju, who were newly signed last year and were primarily intended for the Champions League and the cup competition.
Because both players were still playing for a different club abroad in January, the Bundesliga sentenced them to a fine and a long-term ban that will not apply until the coming season. The club, on the other hand, lodged a protest before an arbitral tribunal.
Source: BR24Sport
02/28/2023 – 12:55 p.m
