Kechris could be banned for life by FISTF

The famous greek player, Kostas Kechris, could have to face an important punishment by FISTF after he decided to take part in the International Open of Milton Keynes of the last weekend. As everybody knows now, the greek players Kostas Kechris and Lazaros Papakonstantinou were banned during one year by FISTF after they were considered guilty in the fact of "the tables were not delivered back to their formerpremises at Ilioupolis sports club before the end of November 2007", like the sanction letter explains.

Kechris and Papakonstantinou´s sanction began on 1st december 2007 and should end on 1st december 2008, but Kostas Kechris took advantage of the lack of communication between the International Federation and the IO Milton Keynes organizers and he decided to take part in the event with his team, Olympia CS from Greece, while the organizers didn´t know anything about his sanction.

Now, and checking some comments in the subbuteoplayersforum.co.uk posted by some components of the FISTF Board, Kechris could have to face a hard sanction with "a ban for life" due to his disobedience to FISTF decisions, but we are very sure that other solomonic solution can be found by FISTF. Anyway, IO Milton Keynes organizers are not guilty of this disobedience because they didn´t receive any information before the tournament where explained this sanction and the Kostas Kechris´incapacity to take part in it, so they weren´t able to avoid the Kechris participation.

Now, FISTF must take a decision, which it won´t be easy to take, but at the same time is necessary because the rules and sanctions have to be respected by all players.