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There are crazy scenes that took place in Turkey at the beginning of this week. Faruk Koca (59), chairman of first division club MKE Ankaragücü, storms onto the field after the match and knocks down the referee. While on the ground, the referee is kicked by Koca’s companions. The referee must be taken to hospital.
This act of violence has put Turkish football in a state of emergency, with matches suspended until December 19. Koca has since been arrested and resigned as club president, but blamed his victim. “Wrong decisions and provocative behavior by the referee” prompted him to take action.
Koca is not the only club boss to allow himself an incredible outburst. Blick spotlights other memorable scenes of crazy presidents.
Sion boss Constantin defeats Fringer
A mega scandal in Swiss football. It happens on September 21, 2017 after FC Sion’s league match on the grass of the Stadio di Cornaredo in Lugano (2:1 for Sion). The then 60-year-old Sion president Christian Constantin attacks the Teleclub expert Rolf Fringer, who is the same age and is waiting on the sidelines to appear. Fringer describes the incredible scene afterwards: “Suddenly someone shouted warning that Christian Constantin was running towards me. I turned around and got the first punch right in my face. Then I tripped, fell to the ground and he kicked me in the ribs and buttocks.” The scene goes around the world.
Perpetrator Constantin initially does not see his mistake and tries to justify himself: “Fringer verbally attacked and criticized me. I settled things with him. I grabbed him and kicked his ass! It feels good! It’s not a polite thing to do, but if you’re attacked, you just defend yourself. I had to discipline him the way you discipline a schoolboy on the playground.” In the run-up to Fringer, he was repeatedly criticized on TV. For his revenge, which went far below the belt, the association banned Constantin for fourteen months and imposed a fine of 100,000 francs. Three months later, the league’s court of appeal partially allowed CC’s appeal and reduced the fielding ban to nine months and the fine to 30,000 francs.
A little later the big gesture follows: Blick brings the two bickering people together during a fondue. They debate the action again, then approach each other, shake hands and make peace. “I would like to apologize for that,” says CC. “That settles the matter for me,” says Fringer. CC withdraws its criminal complaint against Fringer for insult, Fringer refrains from filing a criminal complaint.
The president with the gun
Scenes from the Wild West in Greece March 11, 2018: The president and owner of PAOK Thessaloniki, Ivan Savvidis (then 58), runs onto the field after a PAOK goal was disallowed in the 90th minute in the top match against AEK Athens, threatening opponents and referees. The gun he carries on his belt keeps flashing! The referee team flees into the catacombs. Doubtful: Two hours after the match was stopped, the referee declared that PAOK’s goal counted. However, the guests refuse to resume the game. The match is then scored 3-0 for AEK.
Greek football is at a standstill for three weeks after the scandal. Club boss Savvidis goes into hiding and reports, according to Spiegel, that he got away with it and that he did not want to threaten anyone. The punishment: deduction of three points for PAOK, a mortgage of two points for the next season, three ghost matches, a fine of approximately 60,000 francs.
Chagayev’s armed hut storm
Bulat Tschagayev is probably the most scandalous president in Swiss football history. The Chechen is responsible for the demise of the once proud, traditional club Chagayev’s short but disastrous reign has produced countless crazy anecdotes. About that one August 28, 2011.
At that time, on the 7th matchday of the 2011/12 season, Xamax and Lausanne drew 2-2. After the match, Chagayev, accompanied by armed bodyguards, stormed his team’s locker room. He attacks the newly appointed coach Joaquin Caparros and insults him and the team in the worst possible way. Then there were skirmishes and blows between Caparros and Tschagayev, and three days later the Spanish coach was fired.
The crazy Romanian
One of the craziest club presidents of all time has been causing mischief in Romania since the early 2000s. Gigi Becali, known as the “Berlusconi of the Carpathians”, is the owner of the national top club Steaua Bucharest. He also pursued a long political career as an ultranationalist hardliner with a penchant for crude ideologies. Until he was convicted of an unfair land swap in 2013, he even sat in the Romanian parliament. He is publicly infamous for his vulgar manner and various scandals. He has also built a dubious reputation in football, causing one scandal after another over the years.
Foreigners, homosexuals and women are among Becali’s favorite targets for angry comments and insults. In 2010, he fired his coach Illie Dumitrescu for being “too Muslim” for him. In 2012, he refused to sign a French footballer based on the color of his skin. He accused Steaua’s competitor, the CFR Cluj, of being financed by “Hungarian Freemasons”. He is also an outspoken opponent of women’s football; to this day, Steaua does not have a women’s team. And according to Becali it should remain that way. Women’s football is ‘against the will of God’. His threat: “I will leave football if I am forced to introduce a women’s team.” Becali also has an opinionated opinion about vaccination. In 2022 he stated that he wanted to throw vaccinated footballers out of the team because they were “weak”.
Kadyrov insults the referee over the loudspeaker
Ramzan Kadyrov, the infamous ruler of the Russian state of Chechnya, was temporary chairman of the Terek Grozny (now Akhmat Grozny) football club. In this role, ‘Putin’s Bloodhound’, as the brutal de facto dictator is known, created a memorable scene in the Russian Premier League.
At the March 17, 2013 Grozny welcomes two-time champion Rubin Kazan. The match ends 0-0, but will still be remembered. Because after Grozny’s captain is thrown off the field, Kadyrov himself stands in front of the stadium microphone and insults the referee like a “goat”. After the match he demands that the referee be officially labeled as corrupt. “He did everything he could to change the course of the game,” Kadyrov explains his demand.
Source : Blick
I’m Emma Jack, a news website author at 24 News Reporters. I have been in the industry for over five years and it has been an incredible journey so far. I specialize in sports reporting and am highly knowledgeable about the latest trends and developments in this field.
