Karapapas on bwinSPORT FM: “To have equal measures and equal weights in spectacles and football”

Strong criticism of the decisions to impose restrictions on the presence of spectators in the stadiums was exercised by Costas Karapapas speaking in his “air” bwinΣΠΟΡ FM 94,6.

“The stadiums are closing. “Let’s not beautify it.” said the vice-president of PAE Olympiakos, who underlined the different approach of those responsible for the spectacles with football.

«We realize that there is a mood for two meters and two weights for the way we approach things. It focuses on football and consequently the fans, whom it helps to relax from everyday life. “If we operate, there should be equal meters and equal weights in the spectacles and football is a spectacle that is offered in open spaces”, stressed Costas Karapapas.

In fact, as he informed, what appears is a single line from all the teams on this issue, which is expected to become known and to be determined in the current extraordinary board of the Super League.

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«May we soon get out of the tunnel that makes our lives difficult every day“, Was his initial comment and then he was asked about the line of PAE in the current Board. of the League:

«We realize that there is a mood for two meters and two weights for the way we approach things. It focuses on football and consequently the fans, whom it helps to relax from everyday life. As long as we operate, there should be equal meters and equal weights in the spectacles and football is a spectacle offered in open spaces.

This is an absurd decision, since those who decided do not know what they have decided. We have people who enter open spaces, have been checked at their entrance and respectfully follow the measures.

We tell these people to leave the stadiums, to go to the cafes and gather to watch the games.

There will also be some who will protest outside the stadiums, to express their opposition to the measures. That is, to leave the field and go to the field. The stadiums are closing. Do not beautify it. “How will the teams select these thousands that they allow?”

Then, the vice-president of PAE Olympiakos stressed: «Do you know what happens? All groups, regardless of people, have adhered to the measures. They have received special equipment to deal with the situation. The Minister of Health came out and said that the measures are not observed in the stadiums. Is there a team that has been punished for this? To tell us with data that the measures are not observed… From the first day I follow the issue closely and we are in contact with all the competent bodies, there is a committee that knows little about football. For them, football is the fans who shout and do not know that football means jobs for some people associated with the sport, while the PAEs, which have high operating costs for the stadium, the company and other obligations, are also financially affected. There are teams in the Super League that ask the question: “How will I open with 10% and how will my expenses come out?”. There is no Super League team that thinks differently and expresses another point of view. I can not answer as PAE Olympiacos, why he goes to the theater and does not go to the stadium. I would very much like the Government to respond to this as well. They do not understand that around the stadium or the specific areas the cafes will be filled with people who will want to watch the match of their favorite team. It is like telling the fans that they are spectators of another category».

Regarding the decisions that the League is going to take in the current Board.: «The president of the League wanted there to be a common front and to make counter-proposals and to have a measure in what those in charge bring. We have the following complaint: we entered the process for only vaccinated people to enter the stadiums, something that I personally did not like the separation. The vaccine was given, we took all the measures and we are the first to close. It’s like football is something different. It’s a matter of entertainment, like going to the theater or a nightclub».

Concluding, Mr. Karapapas underlined: «Shouldn’t a discussion have taken place before the measures were announced? We knew that the presence of the people in the stadiums would be reduced by a percentage. Have fun until 3 because it is New Year, but then everything will be closed. We will make concrete proposals, agree on them and bring them up for discussion with the government and the committee. Decided people who have nothing to do with the object. We do not see what is coming, and there are people who see the discrimination that is being done right now. Everything that is done must be done according to the measure and we must go level by level based on the safety of everyone who enters the stadiums. Unfortunately, we get to the point of punishing the one who obeys. I was bothered by the attack that the measures are not observed in the stadiums, as a person who is 24 hours a day over the sport, and we have made the measures for the stadiums and now they tell us that we do not comply with the measures. He can not put us in another category, while no team has been punished. Checks are carried out in the stadiums».

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