2024-05-03 19:29:18
•The extra-judicial court reveals sanctions that have been imposed on A.S. Rhodes from FIFA
Diagoras’ licensing seems difficult ahead of the 2024-2025 season, with the “old man”, as things seem, going one more year with transfer restrictions.
The sports website soccerplus.gr revealed an extra-judicial letter sent by 24 former soccer players to the EPO, with which they request that 10 PAE, among them Diagoras, not be licensed.
The footballers who sent the court are 1. Christos Bourbos, 2. Matias Veron, 3. Alexandros Perogambrakis, 4. Efthymis Kouloucheris, 5. Kostas Kapetanos, 6. Michalis Kyrias, 7. Stelios Tsoukanis, 8. Manolis Papasterianos, 9. Grigoris Papazacharias, 10. Ricardo Faty, 11. Pantelis Kafes, 12. Nikos Arambatzis, 13. Lambros Kefalukos, 14. Marcello Damiano, 15. Diogo Siston, 16. Kwame Frimpong, 17. Minas Iosipou, 18. Stelios Iliadis, 19. Vassilis Angelopoulos, 20. Ronaldo Guiaro, 21. Anastasios Triantafillou, 22. Vassilis Bletsas, 23. Stelios Tsoukanis and 24. Bogdan Mara.
From there on, in the extra-court, reference is made to A.S. Rhodes, revealing that he has been sanctioned by FIFA.
In detail, the extra-judicial report states the following:
“Following our previous requests and because we still have not received a response to our request for your actions to the Licensing Department of the EPO, we submit our present joint request, in order to obtain at least internal enforceability of the decisions of the IPC.
BECAUSE the 1st to the 17th, as well as the 23rd of us, have issued decisions by the Single Member Composition of the ICC, which, although in their ruling they rejected the disciplinary part of our requests, through their reasoning they diagnosed and recognized the existence of athletic succession between of the old and new PAE (OFI, Aris, AEK, PAS, Larissa, Ionikos, Aigaleo, Niki Volou), judging at the same time that they entered as successors in 50% of the debt, which they are obliged to pay us!
BECAUSE the 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st of us have issued corresponding decisions by the Three-Member Composition of the ICC, with exactly the same operative and reasoning as those of the Single-Member Composition on our applications against PAE POT O Heraklis, PAE Aris and PAE Diagoras.
BECAUSE the 20th and 22nd of us have issued exactly the same decision by the Five-member Composition of the ICC on our applications against PAE Aris and PAS PAS Ioannina. BECAUSE the fact of the rejection of all 23 applications as abusive, in no way means that the reasoning of all the decisions that recognized the sports succession is not binding erga omnes and especially towards the services of the EPO, as it is obvious that the alleged abuse is attributable only in the specific remedy and disciplinary request of the imposition of penalties only to the ICC and cannot be extended to other means of execution that are addressed to other bodies through other appeals!
BECAUSE, as is well known, the 24th of us, even though he was fully vindicated by the Three-Member Composition of the ICC with the historic decision 41/2023, he was not fully and completely paid by the Sports Successor PAE POT Herakles and he has asked you for the non-licensing of the PAE!
BECAUSE it is legally unthinkable for the Licensing Department and its Head, who has been a prominent member for years and of the EPO Legal Service, to question the decisions of the Supreme Body of the EPO, the IPC and to demand new trials with new arguments between the same parties for the same cases on which judgments have been made (and indeed to the detriment of former football players, such as the 5th of us who has not only paid fees 4 times but has already been recognized by 2 decisions of the IPC as the sporting succession of PAE Aris and is unable to pay again, because recently even his house was confiscated!).
BECAUSE articles 71-73 et seq. of the Licensing Regulation must be applied fairly and correctly and the Licensing Department must be obliged not to license the successor PAEs that have not paid off the debts to former football players of the previous PAEs, because the IPC so far refuses to issue actions that confirm that our existing decisions have created res judicata, regarding the existence of sports succession, and therefore it is futile to require their reintroduction to the ICC with the same request and even with the payment of a new fee.
BECAUSE Mr. Sarakis himself, recently representing the EPO as its attorney before the Athens Court of Appeal during the hearing of the Actions for Annulment of the decisions of the Arbitration Court submitted by Petros Kanakoudis and Ronaldo Guiaro, admitted that the EPO and its bodies apply only their international football regulations that prevail in any case over the Greek laws, concealing that in its regulations it has included contrary provisions of the sports law in violation of the international regulatory framework with which it misleads the regular judges of the ICC.
BECAUSE the EIP / EPO itself with its decision number 245/2023 on the case of debts to 11 members of the KEP of the successor union of A.O. Kavala, which is pending before the ICC, ruled exactly the opposite of the official position expressed in the courts by Mr. Sarakis as its lawyer, considering that on the one hand the provisions of the EPO regulations and the sports law and not the international provisions apply, on the other hand that according to article 66 par.17 of the Statute of the EPO “all teams before the start of the championships and in order to participate in them must have paid all their debts from final decisions.” The EPO, by decision of the Committee on Extraordinary Issues or the Executive Committee, may revoke the validity of sports status cards for PAE or clubs that have not fulfilled their above financial obligations and until their compliance.
BECAUSE a few days ago, the Athens Magistrates’ Court, following the footsteps of the Amarousi Magistrates’ Court, overturned the case law of the Areopagits of the ICC, acquitting 10 members of the KEP against PAE Panachaiki (for a case in fact for which the ICC’s decision is also expected), recognizing the sports succession even for debts of 2003 and rejecting the plea of abusiveness!
WHEREAS, in the event that you grant our present request, it will be avoided to discuss all these cases again before the ICC.
Because we have already appeared before the licensing department by submitting our applications and irrevocable arbitration decisions by the legal deadline of 28.2.2024, in accordance with the provisions of the current regulation. Because you know very well that in case of ambiguity, the corresponding provisions of the international licensing regulation prevail. Because you are obliged to implement from 1.3.2024 the new FIFA regulations, as well as the circulars of the general secretary of FIFA, Mr. Samura, which you have diligently concealed.
BECAUSE with your actions and omissions you violate the principle of equal treatment, since as you know all our foreign colleagues are not only vindicated by the competent bodies of FIFA but also collect 100% of their earnings legally, as required by the international regulation and for us.
BECAUSE you hide the recent decisions of FIFA and CAS that obliged even the amateur founding associations as successors to pay 100% of the debts of PAE A.O. Kavala and Rhodes to foreign natural and legal persons.
BECAUSE according to an express provision of the new FIFA Disciplinary Code, in the event that within three months of receiving this you do not apply the regulations and do not execute the existing decisions, our cases will automatically be transferred to the competent bodies of FIFA. For all these reasons and without prejudice to any legal right we protest for the umpteenth time your fraudulent acts and omissions by which you violate the Licensing Regulation by failing to respect the decisions of the IPC and call upon you
1. To accept our present application. 2. To decide that the recognition of the sports succession has been irrevocably judged to the detriment of PAE OFI (for the 1st-3rd), PAE ARIS (for the 4th-10th and 20th), PAE AEK (for the 11th), PAE LARISA ( for the 12th), PAE IONIKOS (for the 13th-15th), PAE AEGALEO (for the 16th-17th), PAE POT O HERACLIS (for the 18th-19th and 24th), PAE PAS (for the 22nd), PAE DIAGORAS ( for the 21st) and PAE NIKI VOLOU (for the 23rd), which, based on sub. nos.44/2021-130/2020-174/2021-145/2021-137/2020-72/2021-149/2021 -129/2020-138/2020-136/2021-36/2021-26/2021-131/2020-17/2021-132/2021-66/2021-25/2021-140/2021-152/2021-129 /2021-130/2021-150/2021-144/2021-123/2021-108/2021-145/2021-107/2021-112/2021-40/2023-170/2023-171/2023, 172/2023 and 41/2023, have paid at least 50% of the debt towards us and are obliged to pay it to us. 3. Not to license OFI, ARIS, AEK, AEL, IONIKOS, AEGALEO, POT IRAKLIS, PAS Ioannina, NIKI VOLOU and DIAGORAS, if our demands are not paid or settled and 4. To notify your decision to the Licensing Department of the EPO, the Legal Service of the EPO, the Executive Committee of the EPO and Super League 1 and 2, moreover, we inform you that we will report you to the competent international bodies requesting their immediate intervention, in accordance with the current international regulations and at the same time we will submit Lawsuits and lawsuits against the president of EPO, the head of the Licensing department and against any other executive of EPO who culpably damaged our property rights”.