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Olympiacos provided the solution to the impasse that Greek football had reached with its vice president Costas Karapapas taking the floor immediately and developing the proposals of the champions, which were unanimously accepted.
It is clear that the initiative of Olympiacos saved the situation so that the final could be played and the championship started normally. As it is evident that the means of… consolidation seek once again to “mock” the truth that, after all, has shown many times that they cannot support it.
Only Olympiakos came prepared with a plan for the impasse with respect to the rest of the teams and as a team directly involved they brought the result that everyone needed so that our football would not suffer more than the EPO.
As you can see below, Olympiacos was clear as is clear from the positions of Olympiacos Vice President Costas Karapapas at today’s League Board meeting.
But let’s see what exactly Costas Karapapas said in the League about the championship, the cup, the EPO and Kladenberg.
For the start of the championship and the final of the cup:
“In the league we made an important decision that has to do with the reality of football, but it also has to do with our attitude as a league as a whole towards football and the future. When we decide something and we decide it unanimously, we show that we have unanimity and we say that the league insist on starting the championship on the 12th of the month as agreed and approved by the EPO and we go to the executive committee, it will be fine. the executive committee where the people who represent the league, unanimously continue with this request, present it and support it.
Unfortunately, as those who were there from the Super League realized and unfortunately for the rest of us who knew what happened, there was a different attitude than AEK. I mean, we said different things in the morning in the Super League and different things at night. The AEK representative who represented the Super League in the executive committee actually said that what the Cup committee says prevails, no matter what the league says and in fact Mr. President and confirm if I am right, he also attacked personal. I think we should stigmatize this and it shouldn’t happen again.
Because it does not make sense in a moment and then agree on something here unanimously in the morning and in the evening to change it. In fact, we believe that not all teams can suffer and the planning of all teams for a final that under the responsibility of the EPO has become a comedy and has disgraced us throughout Europe. That is, we do not believe that the OFI coach or the Atromitos coach is responsible because Mr. Diakofotis and I don’t know who else, I don’t know them and I don’t even want to know them, they decide what the giant teams will do. Like Olympiacos, AEK, Panathinaikos, PAOK.
A guy who is a plumber in Samos decides if Olympiacos and AEK will play and where, if anything, this structure? But we must as professional football, when we are united and the front is tight, then there is the front and then. Let’s not say anything in front but something from behind and let this happen.
But we, as we do not want to disturb anyone, we believe that: the championship should start normally as we said. We believe that the AEK-Olympiakos or Olympiakos-AEK game should be defined based on how the first match will be drawn, that is, the cup final as in any case was established by the EPO executive and the Olympiakos-AEK or AEK game – Olympiacos for the championship that will take place on December 16, which is the first free date as we discussed and as we were informed from the Super League. I hope AEK agrees with this, both today and tomorrow and in the afternoon. I mean, we shouldn’t have any disagreements.
It would be good if we all agreed on that. So, if that happens, I think we are overcoming the reluctance not to start the League and not to dismantle the planning of everything because I repeat it was decided by some people who from the Super League only benefit at the end. They only have income. We have not done any harm to them, neither in their planning, nor in anything.
Our idea is that we both draw AEK-Olympiakos or Olympiakos-AEK in the first match. Instead of this game, the Cup final should normally take place on Saturday the 12th and our match should take place on December 16, which is the first empty date for the Super League, on Wednesday. And thus facilitate the rest of the teams in their planning, start normally, play normally and postpone only one game and not two ”.
By the way the league reacts to EPO:
“Until the next election, we should press for UEFA observers to understand the discontent in professional football.” We say we achieve things, true, we achieve things, but what exactly do we achieve? Importantly, what happens? What happened now with the Cup final, what happened with the licenses, remember? We said different things, about our teams, about what the criteria will be for our teams, others were decided by the EPO. What happened to the restructuring? Some of us said, others said the EPO. That is, in what is important, in what is very important, they decide for our future and I repeat, we are the blood donor of football for better or for worse, by a regulatory framework we will speak because we are football professionals and those who donate blood.
I think a proposal to show a reaction in the federation is well made. Let them understand that we are determined and that we are all together. As for the rest, it would be good to clarify why many of the board members here do not even know what is happening in the executive, nor were they there. When, Mr. President, a man who is a representative of the Super League tells the council and executive committee that it does not matter what the Super League says, it matters what the cup committee says, forgive me, but this is not a position of the Super League, nor is it a representative position of the Super League. On the contrary, it is a position that creates a big problem. Both in the cooperative and in the way it positions itself, thinks and operates towards football. Nor is it correct to wait for the votes to come out and then say “we will normally go to the Super League”, what does that mean? How typical am I with the Super League? You are a representative of the Super League. How do you say that what the cup committee says prevails and what you went to defend does not prevail? So don’t embellish it, it’s a serious topic that we need to finish today! And when we talk about regulatory frameworks now, can I tell you something? What regulatory frameworks? Here people want to make a league with 15 to 19 to 29 teams …
I mean, a guy comes out of nowhere, I don’t know exactly what he’s doing in his life and he’s deciding what Olympiacos, AEK, Panathinaikos, PAOK will do. In other words, do you decide where the millions of Alafouzos will go, where the millions of Marinakis will go, where the millions of Savvidis will go? We need to change the era on this. “All over the world, across Europe, opinions on professional football are of the utmost importance, and here some non-existent people decide.”
When Mr. Lyssandrou said that hypocritical teams should not be charged and that Olympiacos operated individually and withdrew his confidence in Mr. Clattenberg, the Olympiacos representative replied:
“In the neighborhoods where I grew up, the hypocrite is the one who says one thing in the morning and another at night.
Olympiacos withdrew its support for Mr. Clattenberg because Mr. Clattenberg suddenly appeared off the agenda of the EPO executive committee and presented some advisers who coincide with the advisers Mr. Pereira had. Worn materials. Tritsonis, Koukoulakis and the others. Mr. Lysandrou knew, of course …
We did not know. It came suddenly, so we suddenly withdrew our confidence, but this had nothing to do with any decision by the league. The league had not decided anything else. Olympiacos did not object to what the league had said, nor did they say anything other than what the league said. They are not related to each other. To know exactly what we are saying … »
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