Meeting confirmed for Wednesday in Athens 

A meeting between the owners of AEK, Olympiacos, Panathinaikos and PAOK has been confirmed for Wednesday, with it set to take place in an Athens hotel.

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Following the unsavoury incidents witnessed at the Super League match between Olympiacos and PAOK during December, a meeting took place in Switzerland between FIFA, UEFA, Evangelos Grammenos (President of the Hellenic Football Federation) and Lefteris Avgenakis (Deputy Minister of Sport). FIFA subsequently invited the owners of AEK (Dimitris Melissanidis), Olympiacos (Evangelos Marinakis), Panathinaikos (Giannis Alafouzos) and PAOK (Ivan Savvidis) to a meeting in January in order to fix the current problems in Greek football together.

The meeting, set to take place on Wednesday, was confirmed with this following statement:

“Deputy Secretary of Sport, Lefteris Avgenakis, and Director of National Federations for UEFA, Zoran Lakovic, called for a meeting on Wednesday 22 January at 15:00 with Messrs Alafouzos, Grammenos, Lysandrou, Marinakis, Melissanidis and Savvidis. The meeting will take place in Athens, at the Grande Bretagne Hotel, to discuss the situation in Greek football. Representatives of international football federations will include Luca Nicola (governor of FIFA member federations), Herbert Hubel (FIFA/UEFA representative), Marios Georgiou (director of UEFA member federations) and Sefton Perry (director of UEFA research and analysis).”

The main goal is to avoid any kind of possibility of Grexit - the act of the Hellenic Football Federation (EPO) being kicked out of FIFA and UEFA - returning to the table. FIFA and UEFA are determined to bring the big names of Greek football together in order to find solutions to the problems which continue to reappear in the national game, namely the violence aimed at referees and ‘war-like’ atmosphere in the Super League. FIFA and UEFA also want there to be more transparency in the EPO.

It remains to be seen if all parties will be willing to cooperate together in a productive manner.

By: Shaun Nicolaides

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