The EPO responded to Olympiakos’ position! With its announcement, the Hellenic Football Federation claims that there was an elite referee from Israel, who declared himself an obstacle (apparently he means Orel Greenfield), while stating that Bennett contacted the federations from Germany and Italy but the answer was negative .
Nevertheless, the two aforementioned federations claimed that they will provide future referees for the Stoiximan Super League playoffs.
The announcement in detail:
The Hellenic Football Federation clarifies the following regarding the appointment of refereeing officials for the Panathinaikos-Olympiacos match for the 4th matchday of the Super League1 play offs.
1. In this game, an elite referee from Israel was initially appointed, who then declared himself an obstacle.
2. The president of the Central Refereeing Committee Steve Bennett with the mediation and assistance of UEFA submitted on Tuesday 4/4 a request for elite referees from the football federations of Germany and Italy, which replied that for this matchday there was no availability. However, they stated that they are ready to provide elite referees in some of the next Super League1 play off games.
3. Following all of the above, the KED proceeded to select the specific A’ category referee.
Source: Sport Fm
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