Meeting with the newly elected president of the Hellenic Basketball Federation, Vangelis Liolios, carried out by the Deputy Minister of Culture and Sports, Lefteris Avgenakis.
The discussion was thorough about the accumulated problems that concern the Greek basketball, after the six-month administrative anomaly with the delay of the elections in EEC. It was agreed the close cooperation and the prioritization of the issues (financial, institutional, administrative, development and claiming of big events.
The Deputy Minister of Sports spoke about cooperation with “fast passes and many accurate three-pointers”, emphasizing that “this is the 2nd largest sports federation in our country and I am very proud that with a completely democratic process and with the acceptance of all involved we have a new administration. we have the post-Vasilakopoulos era, which I am sure will be written in golden letters. We will work very closely with Mr. Liolios and with all the members of the new administration for the good of amateur sports and all the athletes, for the good of Greek basketball. No one is left out of this effort. “
For his part, the new president of the EEC pointed out that “we are coming to the Ministry of Sports which is our roof, our home, of all sports not only basketball and the first thing we must do is to honor our home. Then to go to the headquarters of Greek basketball, where we will now act on the clear order we received from the clubs to move on to the next day “and stressed for Mr. Avgenakis that he” fully understands the issues that concern us, he knows them every detail and this is something that impressed me, he had full knowledge and I am sure that we will soon move in a very positive direction “.
The statements in detail
EEC President, Vangelis Liolios“We are coming to the Ministry of Sports, which is our roof, our home, of all sports, not just basketball, and the first thing we have to do is honor our home. That’s the main reason I came here first. Then to go to the headquarters of Greek basketball, where we will now implement the clear order we received from the clubs to move on to the next day.
After many years, when the president of the basketball federation was George Vasilakopoulos, after a very painful and long electoral process, with several postponements, I had the joy and the honor, after a very democratic process, the unions to vote for me and to take this position with a clear mandate to move on to the next day.
We put in the Undersecretary a first picture of the problems and the intentions that we have, because the amateur clubs have needs. We have discussed all the issues in detail and there is full understanding, I want to believe and support.
The clubs have gone through and are going through a very difficult process due to covid-19 and especially at a young age they have issues to solve, with self tests, rapid tests.
My recommendation as a doctor and as president, to all ages, is that vaccination is the only solution. That is what we need to do. We need to see how we can support the unions until this process is completed.
The first thing I asked from the Undersecretary is the understanding of the problems and the immediate advance help of the unions which have huge problems.
In addition, in the future there will be some legislative regulations, but this is a matter for the Deputy Minister, who fully understands the issues that concern us, knows them in every detail and this is something that impressed me. He had full knowledge and I am sure that we will soon move in a very positive direction “.
Deputy Minister of Sports, Lefteris Avgenakis“The election process in the last federation was completed successfully and with absolute transparency, as the basketball federation was the only one that had pending issues. New administration with a new president Vangelis Liolios and I am very happy that today I received him in my office and we talked in detail about many issues that concern Greek basketball.
After a noisy administrative anomaly, for several months, it is time for us all to start together for the good of basketball, for the good of sports, working together and prioritizing the issues that concern amateur sports in the first place.
We will work together, as we agreed and as the president himself stated, because Greek sports, Greek basketball must be where it really deserves.
A number of issues have been raised and we fully agree on many issues. What we will definitely do is run all the issues (financial, institutional, administrative, development, claiming events and expanding all these principles that Greek sports and especially basketball represent).
This is the 2nd largest sports federation in our country and I am very proud that with completely democratic procedures and with acceptance from all involved we have a new administration, we have the post-Vasilakopoulos era, which I am sure will be written in golden letters.
We will work very closely with Mr. Liolios and with all the members of the administration for the good of amateur sports and all the athletes. For the good of Greek basketball and in this effort no one is left over.
Mr. Liolios has presented a plan with commitments, which, because I know him as a person, bind him as well. So in time he decides, he will announce the prioritization of these.
Where necessary, in whatever issues the issue of the State arises, it is self-evident that we will constantly discuss. Many of the issues that the president has set as a priority are part of the sports reform that we have set, two years ago.
So we work together, we work with fast passes and we want a lot of accurate three-pointers. We are confident that we will succeed, since the new administration is possessed by a spirit of cooperation, it has dynamics.
All the amateur clubs accepted the result with one breath, with one satisfaction, because finally all this suffering is over and now we are heading to new roads, with a very stable and sure course and with the good cooperation that we will have “.
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