It becomes difficult to settle football matches in Greece in the coming time.

Thursday communicate fodbolddommerne in the Greek league, that they go on strike for an indefinite period of time. It happens after one of their colleagues, Thanasis Tzilos, on Wednesday was attacked by four masked men outside his home in the city of Larissa.

It writes the AFP news agency.

– As a sign of our sympathy for our colleague, we draw us so far back, says dommerforbundet in a statement Thursday.

the 33-year-old Thanasis Tzilos was discharged from the hospital Thursday after being treated for injuries in the head and on the legs.

According to the Greek website sport24.gr has Greek football referees since 2009, in 33 cases, been subject to assault or threats.

We are outraged over the cowardly attack on Thanasis Tzilos and the repeated attacks on the judges. We will not allow these people to terrorize us, says dommerforbundet.

Both The Greek Football federation, the league, clubs and politicians have condemned the attack on the fodbolddommeren, in addition to the dommertjansen also is a civil engineer.