His resignation from the presidency of the Stoiximan Super League was submitted by Vangelis Marinakis.
In view of the proposal censure which would testify against him the Panathinaikos, AEK, PAOK and Aris (and since it was secured comfortable majority) was sure the impeachment of the previous president.
However before they move the relevant procedures, was read letter of the Board of Directors which is done via video conference, with which essentially he left by himself.
In it he mentions specifically:
“I want to make it clear to all of you regarding the issue of violence plaguing sports in recent days, that I unequivocally condemn all forms of violence both in society and in football, and I and my team show this with actions and not with empty words and announcements.
After the incident with the firecracker, we investigated and identified the perpetrator and expelled him from our stadium for life. At the same time we installed high definition cameras before the relevant government announcements.
I also remind you that I had the honor of being the first Club President to organize directly with UEFA a European final without the domestic Association, with great success and with the highest safety standards being met and to be congratulated for them.
We are the first to report the cases of Betting and Corruption in football and we want the knife to go to the bone and the truth to shine in all the cases. Only in this way will football be unhooked from the criminal elements that are killing it.
To date, as President of the League I have brought to the cooperative, which was on the verge of dissolution, the biggest sponsorship in the history of the Super League to date, 9 million euros, which ensured its continued existence.
I went into the process of finding resources from the Bet and not only for the teams that need it and I tried to create the Professional Refereeing that would ensure both Referees and equality in football and all this with the consent of the vast majority of teams. You see the arbitration situation is unprecedented. But it also seems that some people don’t want to change it.
Professional arbitration has never been implemented, even though it is a law of the State, because some simply do not want equality.
We reduced the amounts leaving our teams and ending up in the EPO coffers and returned them to them.
We asked for an audit from the EPO to see where the teams’ millions were going and some even within the Super League board did not want transparency.
Although we agreed on the full implementation of the Holistic Study, its implementation was undermined by reasons of expediency.
I see with regret that some people think that we should not go forward and I have neither the time nor the inclination to engage in an institutional role for football as some people want and not as I envision it.
I have neither the time nor the inclination to continue administratively dealing with the cooperative since the words of some on the board do not match their actions.
At that point the AEKthrough Giorgos Kosmaspointed out the fact that the word was nowhere to be found “I quit” and it was asked to be done explicit clarification.
However, with his own intervention, Kostas Karapapas noted that it is not necessary interpretation and that it is indeed about resignation of Vangelis Marinakis from the presidency.
After all this, it is past from the leadership of the organizer and now the election process for his nomination has to start successor of.
Source: Sport Fm
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