By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net
Panathinaikos owner Dimitris Giannakopoulos issued the following statement after his team’s loss to Real Madrid in Game 3 of the EuroLeague playoffs:
Earlier, club president Manos Papadopoulos also released a statement regarding the match.
Giannakopoulos’ statement is as follows:
“Congratulations to Real Madrid for tonight’s victory.
The whole of Europe watches and understands in the most thundering manner that the competition isn’t decided on the floor. Everyone that doesn’t believe this after tonight’s game is either stupid or “fixed”. The failing Spanish employee with the little glasses has made his competition his own fiefdom.
Apart from the fact that we are crying aloud for years because no one tells us where does the money from sponsors, from the use of the images of the logos, or the athletes’, from the TV rights but also because after so many years the team income from the… brilliant management is poor, now, in the last two years, we have an unknown referee as a protagonist in nearly every game. The athletes and their efforts are … relegated to a matter of secondary importance.
This is how you degenerated basketball, you useless one. As I have said, regardless of the final outcome of our efforts on the floor, unless there will be radical changes on situations and people, we will depart from what should be called “Circus-League” at the end of the season.”