The group of the Cup remaining by EPO is an apotheosis of incompetence, at a time when overseas the respective finals are separate occasions
The Hellenic Soccer Federation (EPO) goes from unhealthy to worse. Yearly she stays unable to prepare the one main competitors underneath her watch. You name it a world report that deserves a spot within the Guinness E-book. And naturally we’re referring to the ultimate of the Greek Cup, the conduct of which has been raised by the Greek components and factorists to be an unsolved theorem, as in the event that they need to do with greater arithmetic.
Yearly the identical questions: The place will the ultimate be held? Wherein stadium? Will or not it’s accomplished with followers usually like world wide? Will or not it’s with out spectators? Will or not it’s with college students? With 100 or 300 invites to every finalist?
What if earlier than the soccer season begins the groups signal the declaration of the competitors, identical to the one of many league? Which announcement of the Cup explicitly and unequivocally mentions the place the ultimate will happen, wherein stadium it is going to be held if groups from the identical metropolis attain it or if the finalists are one from Athens and the opposite from Thessaloniki. So clearly. And since mid-March we find yourself with the very same trope: the place will the ultimate be held? Will or not it’s with or with out individuals?
Such ridiculousness nowhere else
Nowhere on the soccer planet will you discover such ridiculousness.
Whereas in nearly all nations the Cup remaining is a celebration for everybody, in Greece we name a celebration a match with out individuals! This specific federation may additionally maintain a remaining with out… groups, to ensure that everybody to get out of the troublesome place and take safety measures, and so on. It will be laughable if issues weren’t so severe.
Even worse for the EPO was that on the identical day as their very own remaining there have been three different Cup finals in Europe, in England, Scotland and Germany, and comparisons had been inevitable. There everybody celebrated with all their coronary heart. Right here the cements of the Panthessalian Stadium of Volos merely laughed.
Panathinaikos – Ares within the depressing Greek remaining with the French referee being chased by the executive chief of the yellow and black PAE Theodoros Karipides within the finale and scenes of infinite magnificence that the Europeans loved by the worldwide media. In spite of everything, it’s not the primary time that Greek soccer has turn into a world laughing inventory. It occurs yearly, at each alternative.
Invites and wooden
From the 2018-19 season so far there have been six Cup finals from the “reorganization” EPO:
• Season 2018-19, PAOK – AEK 1-0 in OAKA with 500 invites for every crew, with the wooden falling mercilessly and with sports activities reporters making appointments to settle their variations exterior the stadium! It was then that on the assembly on the safety measures of the ultimate, the proposal to have a “useless zone” among the many individuals of the press additionally fell on the desk! Such a disgrace…
• Season 2019-20, Olympiacos – AEK 1-0. The venue of the ultimate went by 40 waves. Rizoupoli was initially set for 7/26. Then the OAKA was set for August 30, 2020. And at last the ultimate came about on September 12 in Volos. In different phrases, the earlier season’s match came about (with out spectators because of the coronavirus) the next… with gamers who had been on final yr’s rosters!
• Season 2020-21, PAOK – Olympiacos 2-1 in OAKA, with out individuals because the EPO bought comfy once more as a result of Covid.
• Season 2021-22, Panathinaikos – PAOK 1-0 at OAKA with 45,000 spectators and with wooden falling throughout Attica, even on the sidelines of the stadium.
• Season 2022-23, AEK – PAOK 2-0 in Volos with out individuals once more to keep away from new incidents.
• Season 2023-24, Panathinaikos – Aris 1-0 in Volos with out individuals and once more with out spectators for safety causes.
Within the subsequent season, 2024-25, it’s sure that from March the seventh spherical of the “EPO and Cup finals” collection will begin once more.
Overseas
For the historical past and to have only a small pattern of comparability with what is occurring in Europe with the Cup finals, learn the next:
• The ultimate Manchester Metropolis – Manchester United. in England it was held in entrance of 80,000 spectators at Wembley.
• In Spain, the Bilbao-Mallorca remaining, at La Cartuja in Seville, was attended by 57,000 spectators.
• In Italy, Juventus – Atalanta performed on the Olimpico in Rome in entrance of 70,000 spectators.
• In Germany Leverkusen and Kaiserslautern performed in Berlin’s Olympic Stadium in entrance of 70,000 spectators.
• In France, Lyon and Paris performed in Lille’s “Pierre Morois” within the presence of 45,000 spectators.
• In Serbia, within the crowded “Lagator” stadium (8,000 seats) within the metropolis of Loznica, Er. Asteras – Vojvodina performed.
• Within the Netherlands, the ultimate between Feyenoord and Nijmegen came about at “De Kap” within the presence of fifty,000 followers.
• In Scotland, the ultimate between Celtic and Rangers was performed at Hampden Park in entrance of 51,000 followers.
• Sturm Graz – Fast Vienna performed within the remaining in Klagenfurt’s packed Werthersee Stadium (29,000 seats).
• In Portugal, Porto – Sporting performed on the Stadio Nacional, the place no pin was dropped, in entrance of 30,000 spectators.
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