ESAKE: “No Tolerance for New Injustice”

An announcement regarding the distribution of money from the tax on gambling winnings was issued by ESAKE, which wants a new meeting with Deputy Sports Minister Lefteris Avgenakis.

Analytically: “ESAKE responded to the invitation of the Deputy Minister of Sport Lefteris Avgenakis to a meeting with the heads of the professional leagues (Super League 1, Super League 2, Basket League, Volley League), “for the forthcoming distribution of their funds from the permanent mechanism in support of sport by taxing players’ winnings from gambling’.

The meeting took place on January 23, 2023 in the Deputy Minister’s Office, where Mr. Leonidas Leoutsakos (President of SL2), Evangelos Galatsopoulos (President of ESAKE) and Pantelis Tarnatoros (President of ESAP). No representative from Super League 1 attended the meeting.

What was discussed at the meeting was referred today, 01/25/2023, by the President of ESAKE to the Board of Directors in an Extraordinary Meeting, where the members unanimously decided the following:

A letter should be sent to the Deputy Minister of Sport clearly setting out ESAKE’s positions on the specific issue and a request for a new meeting between the Deputy Minister and a delegation of Board Members should be made. of the club.

The Basket League teams were, by common acknowledgment, wronged from the first application of the Order, receiving much less money than they were allotted on the basis of the Joint Ministerial Decisions. So, having already suffered injustice, they will show no tolerance for new injustice, they will not enter into a negotiation process, but they will demand what is theirs.

After all, according to the GGA announcement, it’s about “fair distribution” and not about favoring some people at the expense of basketball.”