Paraga in football is a popular expression in Greece that refers to the control of EPO (Hellenic Football Federation) by extra-institutional bodies, in the manipulation of matches by football players, selected Referee (football) and generally throughout the illegal activity around organizing the tournaments.
The wagon factor
It is Antonis Mantzavelakis, an agent of the PAO, who has established the bribery of players and agents of rival teams since the establishment of the First National and with a suitcase
The case of flowers
On May 28, 1975, the semi-final semi-final cup was held in Thessaloniki between Iraklis Thessaloniki and Panathinaikos
Giorgos Rokidis, a former player of Panathinaikos, complains that Panathinaikos, the well-known and non-outstanding general captain, Antonis Mantzavelakis, "approached" himself and his teammates to Heracles Zacharias Chaliambalias and Takis Nikoloudis.
The three players were punished by Hercules and were not used in the match. Hercules precedes 1-0 and loses 2-1 from Panathinaikos. Home goalkeepers Grigoris Fanaras ate a completely funny goal. Who Fanaras after the "flower affair", as bribery went through history, opened a florist in Thessaloniki!
The accused Panathinaikos cleaned up with the vote of former Olympic captain, Patriarch of Olympiacos, George Andrianopoulos, Mayor of Piraeus, Minister of Commercial Shipping and, of course, President of Olympiacos. "I was not going to vote against Panathinaikos", he was confessed, not publicly, by lawyer George Andrianopoulos who ultimately assumed responsibility for the release of the eternal adversary.
Chalkidis case
Wednesday, February 3, 1982. Heracles of Thessaloniki hosts the KAUF, in the first match of the two teams, during the 16th phase of the 1981-82 season. Before the game begins, Heracles denounces an attempt to bribe the player of Orphanides by the president of ... Kastoria Halkidis, so Orphanides has a reduced performance at the Hercules-PAO game.
There are cassettes for the disputed talks, which were also heard by journalists from Thessaloniki, at a press conference organized by the president of Heracles FC, Mr. Tertilinis. In these cassettes, Halkides of Kastoria is told to Orphanides of Hercules:
Halkidis: "Vardinoyannis is a State. They do not understand anything. If you have a good deal with them, you have solved the problem of your life. I will get from them a loan of 230,000,000 drachmas. That's why I act. Let him take a goal and get 2,000,000 drachmas. Take these 200,000 drachmas (and he handed him 2 bundles of 100,000 drachmas sealed by the National Bank of Kastoria) and in the evening after the match if everything goes well we will meet in Chalcedon for the rest . Orphanides: For the Second Game? Halkidis: "There we do not need. We have the arbitration. And do not forget that Vardinoyannis is a State. Here we did the Indian (Bublis) Greek.
Paraga of Thomas
The term is mostly associated with the championships of Olympiacos F.C. during the years 1997-2003 and its then president Sokratis Kokkalis, but has also spread to refer to the general corruption in the Greek football. According to the public opinion, the lure has always been the annual financial bonus from UEFA for the participating teams in the UEFA Champions League.
With the method of telephone tapping, Makis Triantafyllopoulos, a TV journalist, trapped a conversation between Thomas Mitropoulos (invisible owner of Egaleo F.C. and at the same time "advisor of Olympiakos on arbitration matters") and a referee (Spathas), saying "...only Olympiacos, only Olympiacos should win, nothing else, and Egaleo. Everybody else should go and fuck off..." and referring to Kokkalis as the Uncle. The journalist involved also the president then of the Hellenic Football Federation, Vassilis Gagatsis.
"Koriopolis"
After the taking of Olympiakos' leadership by Evangelos Marinakis, new scandals came in the light, such as the Koriopolis scandal. In one of the recorded conversations, Olympiacos Volou' chairman Achilleas Beos asks protection for the referees (Kalopoulos, Tryfonas) from Evangelos Marinakis, after a controversial winning game of Olympiakos against Panathinaikos on 21 February 2011. In February 2012, the Superleague Greece with the agreement of the Hellenic Football Federation achieved the replacement of the two football prosecutors (Fakos, Antonakakis) with two others (Petropoulos, Karras). The investigation had no progress.