President of the EPO Organizing Committee: “Only with the consent of the finalists final abroad”

At “Trial in the Open” hosted the president of EPS Achaia, Angel Daniel and chairman of the EPO Organizing Committee. Mr. Daniel referred to the issue of the venue of the Novibet Hellenic Cup final, stressing that it will be required consent of the finalists to take place abroad.

What Angel Daniel said in detail:

If the Cup final can be held abroad: “It is certainly possible, the announcement has included it. First of all, the pair of the final must come out and I believe that there the intentions of the two teams should be examined, which I personally think that for abroad there should also be a financial proposal to cover both the teams and the expenses, the budget of the final . If the budget is there and it’s on the table, what finalist wouldn’t want to go out? When you have 2.5 million euros in revenue, what the teams will collect will be more.

This year, in the announcement, we predicted that the semi-finals would end at the beginning of March so that there would be a long time to decide. In England there is Wembley, in Greece is there such a stadium? Problems are also created in OAKA. Is there a historic finals-only stadium in Greece? We compare disparate things with growth in England.

We made this year’s announcement because we have seen what happens with the finals. We have drawn the pair of the final before the matches take place. Let the couple go out and everything will be discussed and decisions will be made. In 2.5 months we will see the problems and solve them. Mr. Baltakos said if the teams agree to go to OAKA. Otherwise, based on the announcement, it is clear where they will play».

On what the lawyer Grigoris Ioannidis saidMr. Daniel emphasized: “I personally understand that it is very difficult to make a Cup final abroad, maybe it would be easier if we had a Super Cup. The reason is to go somewhere that has a cradle of Hellenism. I embrace the thought of Mr. Ioannidis, but consider the costs. That’s why I said at the beginning that there should be a very sophisticated financial gain. If Mr. Baltakos has such data for 2.5 million euros OK, but I think it is difficult. All the previous years whenever we had people and especially last year after three years without people there was a final that lasted close to 4 hours. Perhaps on this the president is thinking about avoiding the incidents that unfortunately cannot be avoided in Greece. But these are his personal thoughts».

If the national team acquires a stadium: “The problem is that we are still struggling to find a coach. So for a stadium to be a celebration of football is impossible, because here we deal with other things and not with football. The problem for me is that how does the government finance when it does not sit down with the federation to set some funding criteria. Maybe after financing you should also “demand” some things from the PAEs.

The conversation about the sports center has already started and two sites have been found, one in Elefsina and one a little further down I don’t remember the exact location».

On the involvement of politics in football: “In Greece, unfortunately, the eternal problem is that governments get involved in football and you see the result. Do you know that 220 amateur clubs do not play football? As long as we invoke politics, unfortunately these will be the results. I know there was a strike and amateur football stopped, we came back because we respected the teams. From what I know for sure is that if this law is not lifted in the summer regarding the participation of the teams, next season the championships will not start. I know this from the inside, as president of EPS Achaia it is clear to me. I am not talking about unfair interference in terms of financing and supervisory control but about interventions in the announcements of leagues, where the state decides who will play football. The restructurings, if the club is not in the register it will not play football. Let football do it».