Vangelis Grammenos

Marinakis just dealt the final blow to the so-called ‘clean-up’ of Greek Football in front of UEFA/FIFA

Everyone knew that he was going to speak about all the problems. Besides, everybody knows that it was Olympiacos that initiated this debate and brought to the fore all the forms of corruption and immorality associated with Greek Football.

Marinakis to Grammenos: «You have been doing anything that Savvidis was telling you for such a long time and now you’ve become sensitive?»

The big loser of the meeting between the Big 4, of FIFA / UEFA and Lefteris Avgenakis was none other than Vangelis Grammenos. The EPO's president was marginalized and confronted by everyone.

Grammenos was marginalized by Savvides himself, who left his «own» Federation president unveiled.

FIFA monitoring committee recommends soccer Grexit

The head of FIFA's committee monitoring Greek soccer is formally proposing to the international federation the suspension of the local game from the international set-up, practically giving the Hellenic Football Federation (EPO) a period of a few weeks to enforce the measures FIFA has recommended, or else face the so-called soccer Grexit.

Huge pressure on local soccer officials

The Greek soccer federation head is reportedly considering to resign, in the aftermath of the abandoned PAOK vs AEK game and the images of pistol-wielding PAOK owner Ivan Savvidis, while the head of the federation's appeals committee, who ruled in PAOK's favor last Saturday, was revealed to have suffered an attack in the street. He and the match's referee have said they fear for their life.