Six coaches of Stoiximan Greek Basketball Leaguebetween them and the Ergkin Atamanthey seem to have the opportunity to coach their teams at the Greek Championship over the weekend.
Specifically, at the request of the GSC, all the coaches must take a card, where he is asking for paper from a psychiatrist, criminal record and other documents. This card does not have many Greek Basketball League coaches, such as Ergkin Ataman of Panathinaikos, who is called upon to coach the team in the derby with Olympiacos in the SEF.
Apart from the Turkish technician, these papers are not even available by AEK’s Sakota, Pavicevic of Panionios, Papatheodorou of Maroussi, Carasco of Colossus and PAOK’s Zdovc.
The EEC has even sent a letter to a strong style to Deputy Minister of Sports, Yiannis Broutsis, asking him to recall the decision not to depreciate Greek basketball and the Stoiximan GBL championship.
EEC’s letter to Yiannis Broutsis
‘Honorable Mr Minister,
Three days ago, the Hellenic Basketball Federation received a letter from your Ministry where it orders us not to allow coaches who do not have a coach card issued by the coaching association to sit on the bench of their teams and perform their duties.
In the context of the same correspondence, we were attached to the table with the names of the coaches who are allowed to be in the field and obviously forbidden us to allow anyone else to be entrusted to anyone else even if it has the status of the coach, but is deprived of the above -mentioned coach card, other illegal.
In addition, this letter is given the mandate to the Commissioners to oversee and “police”, in essence, this treaty, and otherwise the Hellenic Basketball Federation will be responsible and responsible. As you have been mentioned in detail in our telephone communication, your letter above will have unpredictable consequences, even in danger of shaking the Stoiximan GBL championships, as well as amateur championships in the air.
Although the framework between our framework has been determined by the interconnection of the Registry of the General Secretariat of Sport and the Hellenic Basketball Federation, according to the digital transformation, you continue to rely on an anachronistic arrangement referring to coaching cards issued by the coaches, World Basketball Federation (FIVA) and we have notified it in writing.
In the years 2025, everything is now digital, that our state is digitized at a strong pace, that your E-Kouros ministry has led to a digital revolution, and at the same time, that the Hellenic Basketball Federation is fully digitized, you prohibit our federation, Coaches, always interconnected with the responsible body of the General Secretariat of Sport, and you continue to enable a trade union, the coaching association, to issue printed cards for control (!!!).
In fact, it is well known, and according to complaints, unfortunately, the annual subscription of 60 euros is also sought in parallel for the granting of a card, while this is not legal. It is an inalienable right of coaches who are integrated into the coaches of the General Secretariat of Sports, to have no restriction on the execution of their profession, though the issue of subscription remains active and the examples are a few, with its co -operative consequences for those who operate and Trade union.
For the above, we have been complaining for several months, we have reported them to your ministry, and you instead of taking a clear position against the coaches who are registered in the Registry of the General Secretariat of Sport, continue to aggravate the confusion, serving the anachronistic order for control of coaches through coaches. which are listed who is allowed (!!!!) and who are not allowed to sit on the bench of the teams to perform their duties.
Clearly, we are fully opposed to this tactic, which is far from any concept of modernization of the framework, at the time, even when there are tools for digitization. The above, in fact, have been mentioned many times to the Director of the General Secretariat of Sports, Mr. Basil Kakkos, but instead of resolving, you sent us, after the start of the championships, a formal document with the explicit mandate, to inform the Commanders to check the coaches The General Secretariat of Sports sitting on the bench of their team in the race.
In addition, it is noted that if we do not proceed with such a check and the Greek basketball federation will not be implemented in your letter, the Hellenic Basketball Federation will be illegal. For our part, we will follow the contents in your letter, as we have an obligation, but we point out once again that the consequences will be devastating to the credibility of the championships. The only responsible for the defamation that the sport will suffer will be your ministry in the wake of your documents, which you are still sending and ordering our Federation to do.
In this letter, finally, we would like to emphasize that the Basket League coaches as well as many foreign coaches are missing in the European area, missing from the table sent by the coaching link and you sent us without any previous control.
It is really worth questioning how superficial is the approach of institutions to such a burning issue, and in particular those who send such documents to the state, and then that the state sends them to a sports federation.
Based on all of the above and in view of the championships, professional and amateur categories, on October 11-12-13, we ask as on Saturday at 11:00 am. To take the necessary actions of recall, reform otherwise amending your above document, in order not to lead the leagues, professional (Stoiximan GBL) and amateur (A1 women, Elite League, etc.), in total depreciation, for the purpose of protecting the sporting basketball.
In the event of the expiry of the above deadline, we are obliged to do what we are executed, while also informing ESAKE about the co -adventurous consequences. “