A rallying message to all those that love and wish to assist Apollos within the troublesome interval he’s going via was despatched yesterday at a press convention, which was introduced by the previous president of the AS and member of the DE that appointed the Courtroom of First Occasion, Giorgos Athanasiou and the previous president of Apolloniada and member of DE, Yannis Kosmatos.
After they first reviewed how Apollon was two classes under the Basket League (Nationwide League 1) and emphasised that the Novice had completely no accountability, they talked concerning the subsequent day.
“Committees that we now have appointed have already proceeded to rent a coach and there have been discussions with a number of gamers. The purpose, as at all times, is to win the matches and lift the group to the place it deserves. I repeat, the Prime Minister bears no accountability and is requested to tug the chestnuts out of the hearth” confused Giorgos Athanasiou and added: “We are going to perform the work we now have undertaken. We are going to function with first Class logic. I enchantment to abnormal Apollonists, but additionally to the sponsors, to not overlook us now that we’re within the 2nd Nationwide Staff, let everybody know that we’ll be within the 1st Nationwide Staff once more. We would like the individuals on our aspect, to purchase their ticket and help the hassle being made”.
For his half, Yannis Kosmatos identified: “Whoever loves Apollo will now present it. Now it’s essential to mobilize and unite all of the Apollonists. We’re excellent on the good and the attractive. However Apollo now desires his world. Now he desires by his aspect all of the individuals who declare themselves Apollonists. So allow them to depart the keyboards and are available and help the Affiliation, which has monumental wants administratively, organizationally, in all the pieces.
Apollo turns into gigantic when he has his individuals by his aspect, on the sector, within the Normal Meeting, in his collective our bodies. We are going to ask for the assistance of all these individuals who supported him within the earlier years. We are going to ask for the assistance of sponsors in order that the group has the presence it deserves within the Second Nationwide League. However this isn’t a cause for memorial providers, nor for funerals. It’s cause to metal us, irritate us and make us stronger. As a result of Apollo should survive.
As a result of it is a component of Patras and so long as some individuals plan on it, it should survive and it’ll survive. All collectively we should assist him transfer on to the subsequent day and get again to the place his historical past and dynamics dictate.”
“AS NO RESPONSIBILITY, NECESSARILY IN THE SECOND NATIONAL”
Referring to what led Apollon to Nationwide League 1, Giorgos Athanasiou underlined the next: “Some write that Apollon was voluntarily relegated to the Second Nationwide League. That is the largest lie or anyway misjudgment. The group was relegated to A2 Nationwide and must compete there as KAE. However when KAE didn’t declare participation, it was relegated to the Second Nationwide League and if it didn’t declare, we’d fall to the Native. We had been pressured to go to the Second Nationwide League. Who’s responsible is known by all. The AS is definitely to not blame and he’s known as to tug the chestnuts out of the hearth and he’ll accomplish that, since he has dropped the new potato once more. We’re right here”.
On the similar time, Yannis Kosmatos added: “Now within the second nationwide group, the group can be relegated by AS as a result of KAE didn’t do its responsibility. The group was competitively relegated to A2 Nationwide and the accountability for relegation, by legislation, was with KAE and never AS and that’s clear. We had assurances that the group would come down and the assure could be paid and in paragraph 5 we had been knowledgeable on the contrary.
So there was just one option to declare Apollon within the 2nd Nationwide as a result of there was a danger of relegation to the 2nd Native, i.e. two classes under Apolloniada. From what he says, KAE doesn’t owe gamers and coaches, it doesn’t owe basically and goes into liquidation and this actually saddens us.
We handle the aftermath of this case with out being prepared. We reached the purpose on the day of the elections to the AS the place there have been no nominations, an unacceptable truth for Apollo. We had been pressured to go to the Courtroom of First Occasion to legitimize the subsequent electoral course of from which a brand new administration will emerge freely and democratically.”
LIANOS: “WE ARE CLEAN, THE SOLUTIONS ARE LOST”
The outdated ace, coach, president of the KAE and member of the DE who appointed the Courtroom of First Occasion, Vassilis Lianos, made his personal assertion, stressing: “I’ve been away from the administration for the previous 4-5 years and now it burns me that that is taking place because it burns the abnormal sports activities fan . A few of us had been known as to save lots of what could possibly be saved, however we acquired a skepticism from many who I had by no means skilled. What is going on now’s absurd. Individuals who had wasted some huge cash to get better Apollo within the final three years and created a wholesome KAE, then again AS and Apolloniada, in these 4 years they did an entire consolidation financially and we got here to a Normal Meeting, the place the administrations have fully succeeded in administrative.
You may’t fault them and the primary group failed within the competitors as a result of they had been relegated. For the primary time in its historical past, Apollon administratively in KAE and AS is spotless and had fastened all the pieces. The oxymoron is that in instances once we owed cash to anybody who spoke Greek we discovered an answer and now that we’re clear the options have disappeared. I am nonetheless attempting and may’t discover a solution why all this has occurred. What occurred has no rationalization.”
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