Alexis Kougias resigned from PAE Olympiacos!

After discussions both with Vangelis Marinakis and with people from the environment of PAE Olympiacos, whom I value, I accepted this invitation-challenge, because I had to manage the fact that for the first time after 41 years I would not be the owner of a team and I would be a top but simple executive.

It should be noted that for this position I refused to receive even 1 euro, since my friendly relationship with Vangelis Marinakis was what dominated my choice in combination with my pathological love for football, which love has always been above colors and of collective support and I always dreamed of a Greek football clean and out of the filth of the dirty background, a background that peaked from 1996 onwards and for this reason I was the protagonist of every attempt to clean up Greek football.

In this short period of time that I graced the Board of Directors of PAE OLYMPIAKOS with my presence, cosmological changes took place in the entire football department, as a result of the correct decisions of Vangelis Marinakis and the expenditure by him of tens of millions of euros in combination with the presence in the football section of the C.K. Darko Kovacevic and Christian Karebe, but above all the arrival of the “wise” coach Medilibar, to even lead us to claim the dream of winning a European Cup, while a few months before OLYMPIAKOS lost hands down to Lamia.

Today, unfortunately, for reasons concerning my personal, legal and football dignity, but also what my personality in general means for Greek society, my professional and social path but also my autonomy in how I will I express my opinions on issues, which concern either my science, or society, or Greek football, I am obliged to the value system, which I represent in all these decades of my life, to resign from the positions, the which I had at Olympiakos and which I selflessly honored in the best way.

I want to thank Vangelis Marinakis with the warmest words, with whom our relationship is no longer just either professional or personal, but we are both members of the same family.

I want to express my love for Kostas Karapapas, Michalis Kountouri, Takis Agrafiotis and all the staff of Olympiakos, with whom we lived these 6 months of unprecedented moments of football happiness, but unfortunately I am forced to resign, because above all it is the appreciation that I want to have in myself in the next years of my life.

I am sure that we will win the European Cup and I am sorry that unfortunately I will no longer be in the dressing room, so that we can all celebrate this dream together, as we have done in the last months for all our successes that have brought us to this point.

I want to thank the millions of Olympiakos fans for the love and appreciation they showed me from the first moment, despite the fact that I was never part of their family, but I’m sure they would also feel with how much responsibility and with how much respect for history of Olympiakos, I selflessly served this sensitive position, which I have held until today in all these difficult moments that we all went through together, in order to achieve this result, which we achieved.