ŠK Slovan Bratislava will invite Olympiakos Piraeus, who owns his own Marinakis – SME.sk

BRATISLAVA. Former Slovan goalkeeper David Bičík claimed that the owner of the club, Ivan Kmotrík, often came into the cabin and blew the players so that even the coaches did not get the word out.

In the Slavic cabin and beyond, mysterious things have often happened that the public speculates about.

Slovan coach Vladimír Weiss fired Brazilian striker Rafael Rato last weekend.

“As long as I am a coach, he ended up in Slovan. Things happened in the cabin that will be over, “Weiss explained in the press after the last match with Michalovce (3: 1).

He had gotten into a dispute with Rata before. This time Weiss did not forgive him.

On Thursday (at 9 pm) Slovan will play in the first match of the European League playoffs on the grounds of the famous Olympiacos Piraeus.

Its owner, Evangelos Marinakis, is often relentless.

He also bought Nottingham Forest

“Instead of wishing you a nice vacation, I hope you get stuck. You are not even worth the toilet paper we have in the training center, “said Marinakis, according to the media.

It was the beginning of April 2018. The owner of the club eliminated most of the players from the staff, fined them 400,000 euros and finished the season with the juniors.

The reason? His team did not defend the title for the first time since 2011 and finished third.

At first glance, Marinakis is reminiscent of the opera genius Luciano Pavarotti. Chubby, with a bewitching look and a thick chin.

He is successful. He bought Olympiakos in 2010 and has won ten titles with him since then, seven of them in a row (2011 – 2017).

Four years ago, he also bought Nottingham Forest, which operates in the second English league, for £ 50 million.

They found heroin on his ship

Marinakis is a controversial rich man, his assets are estimated at two billion euros.

Own media, got rich on shipping. He transformed the small company he took over from his father into a huge company.

His company CORP has almost seventy ships.

And just one of them almost became fatal for him. In 2014, police detained a Noor 1 tanker off the Greek coast.

More than two tons of heroin were reportedly found inside the ship and eighteen tons of fuel were illegally transported.

The fifty-three-year-old Greek took it only as another attack on his person.

“We will not accept any compromise, I do not intend to capitulate, I will not succumb to the dirty plan of those who want to harm me,” The Guardian quoted him as saying.

He visited the referees in the locker room

Marinakis was accused of smuggling and selling drugs, but he could do nothing, he said.

“This nonsense is being spread by my jealous critics,” he responded.

He is also known for his unfair football practices. In the preliminary round of the European League, he was supposed to fly into the referees’ cabin during the half-time break during the Olympiakos-Burnley fight and sharply rebuke them for their performance in the first half.

In June 2015, he was investigated for fraud during football matches, extortion, leading a criminal organization and complicity in burning a bakery that belonged to one of the referees.

After a year and a half, however, all charges were dropped and Marinakis was cleared. He was accused of influencing matches and referees many more times.

“I have nothing to do with it, and it doesn’t bother me in any way. No one has a fraction of the evidence against me, “he said.

The most expensive staff in history

Olympiakos dropped out of the Champions League last week when it was not enough for Ludogorec Razrad. And Marinakis was furious again when he accused the players of indifference.

“You have tarnished the history of this club with mistakes. Pass on 110 percent, otherwise you will lose places, “said Marinakis according to gazzetta.gr.

He reminded that the Portuguese coach Pedro Martins has the most expensive staff in the history of Olympiacos today.

The specialized website Transfermarkt valued it at more than 113 million euros, Slovan looks like a cinderella in comparison with it: 13 million.

Piraeus has several well-known players in its staff, whether it is the Czech goalkeeper Tomáš Vaclík or the thirty-six-year-old midfielder Mathieu Valbuena.

It is the French veteran who is the best earning player in the team.

They make millions a year

The salarysport.com portal estimated his annual salary at three million euros. The Greek master spends about twenty million euros a year on wages alone. Up to five players have an annual salary of more than a million.

Olympiakos Piraeus is a clear favorite, ranking 37th in the UEFA club ranking.

He regularly plays the group stage of the Champions League. He advanced to the eighth finals of the European League two years ago, when he eliminated Arsenal in London.

Coach Weiss is happy that the club fell asleep on the transfer market. He asks for reinforcements.

What are the chances of Slovan?

Two years ago, under the leadership of the then inexperienced Ján Kozák Jr., he took care of the sensation and guaranteed his participation in the European League group.

Slovan eliminated PAOK

Slovan eliminates another Greek giant, PAOK Thessaloniki. He won 1: 0 at home and lost 2: 3 on Greek soil. At that time, the rule of a higher number of goals on the opponent’s ground still applied.

Olympiakos seems even stronger today than then PAOK.

The better of the pair will still guarantee participation in the group phase of the European League, the weaker will fall into the Conference League.

Participation in the European League group alone guarantees a bonus of 3.6 million euros, the Conference League almost three million euros.

Slovan last met Olympiakos in 2009. In both matches of the 3rd preliminary round of the Champions League, the Greeks won 2: 0.