2023-10-20 06:56:19
Long before the cross and with the tones rising vertically, his Sunday derby began Olympiakou by Panathinaikos. The occasion was the appointment by the new chief referee of KED, Peter Freudfeldof the Italian referee Fabio Maresca, which, although it comes from a major league, belongs to the second category, which caused the strong reaction of Olympiakos. At the same time, the “red and whites” protested through their announcement about the presence of the also Italian in the VAR Marco Piccinini, who was in the same position in last year’s match against AEK in “Karaiskaki”, where he made serious mistakes. “A VAR referee who is not even international is returning to the scene of the crime,” says the announcement of Olympiakos, from whose arrows even the Minister of Sports, Mr. Brutsis: “Chief referee Mandalos illegally and irregularly appointed for the country’s biggest derby a second-class referee, neither elite, nor first-class and in fact in the last years of his career and not someone talented on the rise. Mandalos, Baltakos and the invisible Minister of Sports who passively watches the daily humiliation of the institutions of Greek football are responsible for everything that happens from now on.”
From the side of Panathinaikos, there was no official reaction, as two of the three prerequisites are met (a foreigner and from a major league), but there is skepticism about the fact that it belongs to the second division of UEFA.
Olympiakos also responded late yesterday afternoon EPO, which in its announcement revealed that the referees of the derbies are not selected by the KED, but by the respective federation that responds to the request, while adding: “In the event that it is impossible to find an elite or first-class referee, it can still be appointed and UEFA B-class referee. In this particular case, the only federation that responded was the Italian one, which sent the names of referees that we disclosed. Moreover, the same federation appointed a UEFA B-class referee for the recent Panathinaikos – AEK derby. The entire process of appointing a referee, appointing KED/EPO members and appointing referees is in accordance with the FIFA, UEFA regulations, the EPO refereeing regulation and the Federation’s statutes. Who exactly is “the institution” that is humiliated every day?”
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