The racist delirium of the mayor and owner of PAE NPS Volos against Andreas Tetei was not the first in Greek stadiums
“Even if I wanted to be a racist, I can’t be. Since 1999 I have been the owner of a team and within these teams we have many colored footballers and I am by their side” stated a few months ago Achilles Beosin a cheap attempt to… wash himself of his racist, homophobic and fascist views and actions on and off the pitch.
See also: Tetei at GADA – He testified about the racist attack by Achillea Beo
The last racist… show of the mayor of Volos and owner of PAE NPS Volos was that of last Sunday at the stadium of Kaisariani, in his team’s match against Kifisia, where he called Andreas Tetei, a football player of the Athenian team, a “monkey”, which he denounced the player himself after the match was over not knowing at the time that it was Beos who called him that.
When Tetei’s complaint began to take shape in the media, the owner of PAE Volos rushed to issue a statement in order to justify the unjustified and downplay the incident, cheaply and stupidly stating that “someone from our team’s bench shouted at the referee for a foul- monkey and he didn’t call the footballer that way”. A monument to audacity…
A few hours later, however, PAE Kifisia, with a revealing video uploaded on social media, hanged the racist agent of Volos on… pegs: Beos himself, who was sitting on his team’s bench, shouted at the referee “he fell alone, the monkey” and this can be heard and seen clearly in the video!
Apart from that, of course, the mayor of Volos indulged a little later in what he knows how to do best and has reduced it to… science in the Greek stadiums but also in society. In a recital of obscenity and falsehood, with nighttime abuse, showing his boyhood on camera to those around him and while he had already been expelled by the referee of the match.
Racism in Greek stadiums
Of course, racist attitudes like that of the owner of Volos have existed from time to time in Greek stadiums, fortunately not to such an extent as in many European countries, but they happen and will continue to happen as long as the evil is not cut from the root.
In 2005, Kofi Abonsa was the subject of a racist attack during the Aegaleo – Herakles match. Before Egaleo, the Ghanaian defender had played for AEK, Olympiacos, PAOK and was loved by the fans.
Some time later Sotiris Nini of Panathinaikos heard the shameful slogan “You will never be Greek, Albane” in a game of the national team of Greece.
In an OFI-Olympiacos game in Heraklion, Mazouako of the “red-whites” every time he touched the ball heard monkey sounds from the stand, causing discomfort to many fans who were on the field.
The former ace of Panathinaikos and one of the greatest players who passed through the Greek stadiums, Djibril Cisse, also fell victim to racist attacks. As he had stated, he was racially attacked while playing in Greece both in the “eternal” derby with Olympiacos in 2011 in Karaiskakis by fans of the “red and whites” and at the Volos stadium by fans of the local Olympiacos. “In Greece I never had a problem, with the exception of some things I had heard in Karaiskakis and also at the headquarters of Olympiakos Volos. But I don’t believe that Greeks are racist.”
Lawrence Doe of Apollon Smyrna had become the recipient of racist slogans in a match with Iraklis Psachnon, which the referee had stopped for ten minutes.
In a match between Xanthi and Olympiacos in the 2013-14 season, the Cameroonian Gaetan Bong was the victim of a racist attack by fans of the local team who also imitated monkey sounds, which seem to be the racists’ fodder. After the match, Bong gave an answer via Instagram: “Today I heard sounds of monkeys from the audience of Xanthi. In the end I had a hard time hearing them because they had bananas in their mouths.”
We had a racist episode in the same season in Toumba, in the semi-final of the PAOK Cup – Olympiacos. The “red and white” Kazim Richards and Salino reported a racist attack with… bananas. “PAOK fans were throwing bananas at me. This could be taken as a racist attack, but many were laughing. If the bananas are yellow and in good condition, I can eat them, but if they are rotten, like some that were thrown to me, then not even a monkey will eat them,” Richards told reporters.
“Zero tolerance” the UEFA directive
As part of its zero tolerance policy towards any form of racism and discrimination, UEFA has a match monitoring system. FARE reports are not only a basis for imposing sanctions but can be used together with other evidence to substantiate the potential scrutiny of UEFA, the ethics bodies and the Disciplinary Board to initiate an investigation.
Since 2013 the UEFA congress has adopted a resolution showing European football’s commitment to combating racism:
01 UEFA’s statutes state that the main objective is to promote football throughout Europe in a spirit of peace, understanding, fair play and without any discrimination.
02 Similarly, UEFA’s eleven core values include a commitment that UEFA will adopt a zero-tolerance approach to racism.
03 These same eleven values state that football should set an example. Football unites people and transcends differences. Therefore, respect is a basic principle of the game.
04 In this context, European football is united in the belief that racism and other forms of discrimination must be eradicated from football once and for all.
05 UEFA and its member associations decide to multiply their efforts to eradicate racism in football. Any form of racist behavior affecting the game must be severely punished.
06 Referees should stop, interrupt or even abandon a match if racist incidents occur. There are three-step instructions: First, stop the match and give a public warning. Second, the fight to be suspended for a period of time. Third, and after coordination with security officers, the match will be stopped if the racist behavior has not stopped. In such a case the responsible team loses the game.
07 Any player or team official found guilty of racist behavior must be banned for at least ten matches or an equivalent period for club representatives.
08 If fans of a team or national team exhibit racist behaviour, sanctions (for a first offence) should be imposed with a partial stadium closure in the section where the racist incident occurred. For a second offense a full stadium closure should be imposed, as well as a financial penalty. Furthermore, fans found guilty of racist behavior should be banned from attending stadiums in the future by state authorities.
09 Clubs and national teams are urged to implement awareness programs to tackle racism. In addition, they must be accompanied by disciplinary sanctions for any racist behavior.
10 Players and coaches must also be leaders in the fight against racism.
11 UEFA is fully committed to these strong sanctioning and awareness policies for all associations to support the implementation of similar policies, taking into account their own domestic circumstances.
What does the CAP provide for?
According to article 18 of the CAP (Regulation of Football Matches), which refers to racism, the following are provided for:
1. Whoever within the scope of this Code diminishes, discriminates against or tarnishes anyone, in a defamatory manner, because of his race, colour, language, religion or ethnic origin, or commits any other racist or contemptuous act, shall be punished:
– If he is a team official, with a ban on entering the stadiums from three (3) months to one (1) year and a fine of at least fifty thousand (50,000) euros if he is a PAE official and two thousand (2,000) euros if he is a union official.
2. a) If officials or football players of a team commit a racist or contemptuous act, as described in paragraph 1 hereof, the match is awarded in favor of the opposing team and the guilty team is punished, in addition to the penalties in paragraph 1, with a monetary penalty, which for the PAE amounts from twenty thousand (20,000) euros to eighty thousand (80,000) euros, and for the unions two thousand (2,000) euros. In case of a second violation, apart from the loss of the match mentioned above, the above monetary penalty will be doubled and in case of a new (third) violation, the team will be relegated to the immediately lower category at the end of the respective championship.
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