One of the most historic official clubs of a foreign team in Greece, “X FC St. Pauli Athens Club” ended its operation.
The decision to stop its operation, after 16 years, was officially announced yesterday by its official link Saint Pauli in Athena.
The reason has so much to do with the position that the team itself took in his favor Israel at war with Palestineas well as with the attitude taken by the respective ones club in Germany.
The announcement in detail…
NOT A STEP BACK from the values of Athens Club FC Sankt Pauli!
The Athens Club FCSP decides on its immediate dissolution following the wish of the overwhelming majority of its members.
After 16 years of operation and safeguarding our beliefs, Athens Club FCSP, one of the oldest in Europe – outside of Germany – declares its complete differentiation from the football club FC Sankt Pauli of Hamburg on the burning issue of the war in Palestine.
Our common path, based on what St. Pauli, ended on October 7th, when we suddenly found ourselves in completely opposite camps.
Our differences are chaotic and immediately after our protest for the position in favor of the state of Israel that the team took (as an Association and as a fan movement within Germany), in cooperation with various international clubs of St. Pauli around the world, we even got to the point of being attacked by our hitherto “own people” from Hamburg, who accused us of being “terrorist sympathizers” and “anti-Semites”, accusations that have NOT been retracted since, and even worse NOT we were given no apology for them.
In conclusion: From the first day of Athens Club’s creation, we stayed true to our values, our beliefs and what we thought St. Pauli.
And we were wrong after all. St. Pauli let us down completely…
The solidarity he has so generously offered, suddenly does not apply to the Palestinians.
But solidarity is not a la carte.
Along with our own decision to self-dissolve, the operation of other international clubs is also suspended.
A chapter closes for us, but it gives us the impetus to embark on our own pirate ship for other ports… Football, political, cultural.
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