Ukrainian assistant referee Serhiy Bekker has been staying at a hospital in Greece for three months in a row. In October 2018, Bekker was appointed AR in a game in this country; however, on the eve of the match, they found him at a hotel suite, suffering consequences of a stroke. Kostyantyn Andriyuk, a sports journalist, posted that on Facebook. Serhiy Bekker received no financial aid from the national football federation of Ukraine
"Assistant referee Serhiy Bekker was assigned 21 or 22 top games between Dynamo and Shakhtar in Ukraine. On October 24, the day before a European competition game in Greece, he was found at a hotel suite with the stroke. They saved him, but that entailed a long-lasting treatment. The UEFA insurance policy allowed to allocate 80,000 Euros and the Greek football federation gave some more money. The Football Federation of Ukraine gave 0 Euros, 00 percent. Serhiy Bekker is still at a Greek hospital. One month of treatment costs some 10,000 Euros", said Andriyuk. According to him, the referee's father sold his own car to save his son. Ukrainian football referees also joined in. In total, they collected some 6,000 dollars. I wonder how much Luciano Lucci, the head of the Referees Committee, and the leaders of the Ukrainian federation donated for that purpose? There are the people who came here to develop football and care about it. But what about caring about the life and health of their own employee?', Andriyuk wrote. He turned to the teams' owners, presidents and club managers, asking to help treat the referee and bring him home.
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