{"id":14816,"date":"2018-03-12T17:28:22","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T17:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=14816"},"modified":"2018-03-12T17:28:22","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T17:28:22","slug":"greek-football-boss-invades-pitch-with-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2018\/03\/12\/greek-football-boss-invades-pitch-with-gun\/","title":{"rendered":"Greek football boss invades pitch with gun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Greek top-flight match between PAOK Salonika and AEK Athens on Sunday was abandoned after PAOK\u2019s president invaded the pitch with a gun.<span id=\"more-413669\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ivan Savvidis tried to confront the referee with a gun in a hip holster after his side had an 89th-minute goal ruled offside with the score 0-0.<\/p>\n<p>AEK\u2019s players left the pitch concerned for their safety and did not return.<\/p>\n<p>The match was officially abandoned two hours later and it was reported the referee had reversed his decision.<\/p>\n<p>Fifa said it is \u201caware\u201d of the incident and \u201cfully condemns such behaviour\u201d but added that any disciplinary measures \u201cfall under the jurisdiction of the Greek FA\u201d.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_413676\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-413676 disappear mom_appear\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clickittefaq.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/paokpresident_reuters2.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.clickittefaq.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/paokpresident_reuters2.jpg 624w, http:\/\/www.clickittefaq.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/paokpresident_reuters2-300x169.jpg 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Savvidis entered the pitch with a gun in a hip holster<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Greece\u2019s deputy culture and sports minister Georgios Vassiliadis said the situation called for \u201cbold decisions\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Savvidis, one of Greece\u2019s richest men, was born in Georgia of Greek heritage and is a former member of the Russian parliament.<\/p>\n<p>He asked his team to leave the pitch following the offside decision then marched towards the referee before being pulled back by bodyguards.<\/p>\n<p>PAOK are third in the Greek top flight and could have moved within two points of leaders AEK with a win.<\/p>\n<p>(BBC)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Greek top-flight match between PAOK Salonika and AEK Athens on Sunday was abandoned after PAOK&rsquo;s president invaded the pitch with a gun. Ivan Savvidis tried to confront the referee with a gun in a hip holster after his side had an 89th-minute goal ruled offside with the score 0-0. AEK&rsquo;s players left the pitch concerned for their safety and did not return. The match was officially abandoned two hours later and it was reported the referee had reversed his decision. Fifa said it is &ldquo;aware&rdquo; of the incident and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14817,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14816"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14818,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14816\/revisions\/14818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}