Ruben Perez in the past had been reported several times to a person from his team Panathinaicwho was responsible for his removal from the club. In the Spanish show on YouTube «Red front»He first mentioned his name Giannis Papadimitriouspeaking about an incident that had happened in the Panathinaikos Greek Cup final with Mars of the 2023-24 season.
Typically, Ruben Perez said that Yiannis Papadimitriou took the armband before the start of the final at the Panthessal Stadium. He then openly accused the Greens Technical Director of being responsible for his removal from the club.
Ruben Perez’s words in detail
“I haven’t commented on it, but okay, I’ll talk a little. I don’t want to avoid this issue, but I’ll say what it was. That match with Mars, the final cup. I was a leader and when we arrived, we went from the hotel to the locker room. I leave my bag, my backpack, all my things there. The flag, the armband, all. I go out on the pitch, I live a little with my teammates talking about the stadium. When I returned to the locker room again, there was nothing in my place. Neither the flag nor the armband.
They had put them on another teammate. I wondered, what’s going on here? Then I go out and ask what happened and I was told that it was Yiannis Papadimitriou, the technical director. And I told him “what happened?” He says to me, “Oh, Ruben, sorry, I didn’t know that you were the leader.” And I told him that, okay, whatever it was, it was the last time he touched my personal position. Because I was the leader, his job was out of the locker room and he could do whatever he wanted there. But he couldn’t mind something as personal as the changing rooms.
Next year, he left me out of the team. He began to say that it was a coach’s decision, but it was a lie because I knew it. The coach was Diego Alonso. I told him, “Okay, if it’s a coach’s decision, in three or four months when I am persecuted I will return to the team, right?” In three months they kicked him out, but I never returned to the team. So that happened and kept me out of the team all year and I did workouts on my own.
I played 120 matches in 3 years, I was the leader, I always respected them all. No one in the club can say bad chat about me. So, yes, at that moment I was expecting a different behavior. But, okay, sometimes these things happen in football and it’s another step in my career. I try to forget it, but the truth is that you have a thorn inside you because they are not right ways. “