The Official Panathinaikos Thread

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PART I

"PANATHINAIKOS FOREVER"


How It All Began

The congregation took place in a small room at the Horse-riding Club of the Panellinios G.S. training facilities, and the "mutiny" that Giorgos Kalafatis was preparing for two years, was sealed. Forty athletes from Panellinios, after a three-hour discussion decided to break away from their club and create a new one, which in the beginning would only have one sport: Football.

The voting for the decision did not last more than ten minutes. Things had been agreed before hand anyway. The big discussion was what the club was going to be named. There were many proposals, but even more was the consideration of the names and the disagreements. The basic characteristic of Kalafatis and his friends was that they were all from aristocratic families of Athens whom where rich and well known in their "close circle" at that time. The name that was originally chosen was that of "Podosferikos Omilos Athinon" (POA). That name was later to evolve into "Panathinaikos Athlitikos Omilos"(PAO). The club introduced football to Greece, but also made Greece well-known abroad, not only through football, but through the other sports the club practices. On May 15th 1908, maybe none of the founding members that were leaving that small room, ever imagined, that with their unanimous decision, they had began a creation that in just a few years would put thousands of people in motion, many of which would make their life synonymous to Panathinaikos. In Panathinaikos' creation, the members that first began the motion apart from the Kalafatis brothers, where Periklis Boubalis, Dimitris Doukakis, Mr. Paschos, Mr. Demertzis, Mr. Reppas, Mr. Sapounas, Mr. Granotsas and others. The first president of POA was Alexandros Kalafatis and his first job was to find a ground where the team could play.


The 1st Home Ground

It didn't take long for Kalafatis to find a home ground. He actually rented a piece of land on Patision St. (A.S.O.E.E is situated there today). The pitch was smaller than the lengths of a normal football pitch, but it was a start. He himself, with the help of his friends and some of the locals arranged to transform this farm yard into a "football pitch". They flattened it, found some posts for the goals and built a small shack in order to be used as the clubs office. The first "stadium" had been built!! It's first footballers though-all being young- did not yet have proper shoes to wear. The next priority would be to find someone that would finance the club.


The First Funds

Marinos Marinakis was a man that had travelled all over the world and had lived a good life. Being rich he had lived in England where he learnt to love sport and he knew quite a bit about football. He had once been a member of the Ethnikos G.S board and had faced similar problems as Kalafatis had at Panellinios when he proposed to create football team. See, in those times, football was regarded as a barbaric sport only for the masses and not the "high" citizens of Athens and Piraeus. He learnt about the transformation that had undergone at Patision St. at the Karapanos place, inspected it and was convinced by Kalafatis to fund his efforts.


The Clubs First Game

It is hard to determine with who POA play its first game, but its first official game is thought to be in 1908 in Trikala, for the Panthessalian games, in the unofficial events. POA defeated Piraikos 9-0. That victory against such a historic club, at that time, made Kalafatis and Marinakis decide to get the team a kit that it would wear on a regular basis in order to distinguish itself. Until then, POA would play in different colors in each game.

It is of importance though, to mention an anecdote that once occurred on the Patision St ground. POA where playing an unofficial game when in a nearby field a farmer held a bull. After a few minutes, with the POA players running around in red shirts, the bull "saw red", broke the barriers and charged whoever he saw on the pitch wearing a red shirt, the players started running for their lives and throwing their shirts behind them and so did some of the fans that were wearing red that afternoon!!! The red shirts -because of that incident- were never to be worn again. It was to be become the adopted color of Panathinaikos' biggest rival, Olympiakos who was to be formed later on, in 1925.

In 1910, some disputes arose between the board members, almost dissolving the newborn club and after a few of them left, POA was renamed to Panellinios Podosferikos Omilos (PPO) with Kalafatis and Marinakis remaining at the helm. A new home ground was found, situated today at "Amerikis" square, which was cleared and transformed into a football pitch.


The First Foreign Coach

Until 1912, Giorgos Kalafatis would coach the team. In Greece's first official league PPO was victories winning the tournament. One of the victories was against Piraikos who PPO beat 11-1. That had seismic consequences at the time since the team from Piraeus, were greatly respected. In the spring of 1912, one of the best known English athletes, John Campbell, from Oxford University came to Greece, met with Kalafatis and agreed to take on the position of coach. He stayed at the PPO for two year and the impact his presence made was tremendous, not only for PPO but for Greek football as a whole since he taught Greek footballers o hold their positions, to cross the ball and head it. He also took on in introducing and teaching other sports to the club such as boxing, fencing and the long jump. In 1914, John Campbell returned to England and was to comeback to Greece two months later, but he suffered a serious accident and stopped sport altogether. His chapter in Greek sport ended before he could offer more. He is still remembered.


The 3 Personalities

Between 1911 to 1914 there were 3 personalities which stamped and sealed their names into PAO folklore where:

* Michalis Papazoglou: born and bread in Constantinople, Turkey where he was an athlete. Fell in love with football from the moment he was introduced to it, his fame reached Greece before he did. His name appeared in the Athenian press as "the one that is teaching the Turks football".

*Michalis Rokos: also from Constantinople, came to Athens in 1909 and started playing for PPO. In a short time he had become famous and was named as one of the hero's of Greek football. After he retired, he remained close to the club and
was the general secretary for many decades.

*Apostolos Nikolaidis: also came to Athens from Constantinople in 1914. No one knew that his arrival would make such an impression for Panathinaikos' history. After his retirement, he was to become the club president for many decades. Leoforos Alexandas stadium was to be renamed to "Apostolos Nikolaidis" after his death. He also happened to bring Loukas Panourgias to the club, who happened to have a team called "Niki" (Victory), who had gone bankrupt. He managed to persuade him to get all the players and himself to sign for PPO. This move made PPO very powerful at that time.


WORLD WAR I

This was a period where most of the clubs activities died down, as they did for most clubs in Europe. Many PAO players were conscripted. For two years the club did not participate in any games. Kalafatis though was thinking for a while now, about the clubs emblem that did not exist. Her told Papazoglou, Panourgias and Nikolaidis to come up with a proposal. In 1919, at a board meeting they made a presentation of:

a) Team Color: Green
b) Club Emblem: Three-leaf clover
c) New Club Name: Panellinios Podosfairikos kai Agonistikos Omilos (PPAO)

Papazoglou had come up with the idea from the club he would exercise with in Constantinople, which was called "Chalkidona" and had the emblem and colors he proposed. The proposal was unanimously agreed on.


Matches in Paris

After WW I, The "Allied Games" were organized and as Greece, was on the side of the victorious in WW I. Greece was also invited to compete in many sports apart from football which was a decision taken by SEGAS (Greek Sports Authority). After Kalafatis heard that, he asked if PPAO could represent Greece in football, with a few other players from other clubs and that the club would take care of part of the expenses. SEGAS agreed. The team consisted of 6 PPAO players, others from, Salonika and other Athenian clubs.

The Greek team with the support of the Greek emigrants in France lost 4-0 to Italy, 9-0 to France and beat Romania 2-1. In the last game, Yugoslavia did not come to play and Greece was awarded the victory by default.


The Battle for Leoforos

The land on Patision St was starting to get smaller and smaller from all the sports PPAO was practicing, so Kalafatis went out to find a new piece of land. He found "Perivola" at Leoforos Alexandras, but there were problems since the council would not allow PPAO o use it. The disagreements went on for a while and solution was finally given by Prince Nicholas, who gave PPAO the "OK" to carry on. Trouble then arose with refugees from Asia Minor, who wanted to squat there. The PPAO athletes with Kalafatis would give daily battles to save their ground and after a while PPAO won the "fight" and the refugees where moved elsewhere.


Fourth Name Change

Two things occurred in 1924. First was, Leoforos been awarded to PAO to use On a regular basis and secondly, the club changes its name to Panathinaikos Athliticos Omilos (PAO), the name it is known by, today world-wide.

The same season, PAO won the league of Athens (5 games, 5 wins) and then for the National title beat both teams from the league of Salonika.

That season was the one in which PAO played it's first ever game against a foreign team. PAO lost in front of 7.000 fans (record at that time) 5-1 to Yugoslavian club, Beogradski. A season later, PAO together with Olympiakos and AEK Athens fell out with EPO (Greek football Federation) and where banned from playing other Greek teams. PAO then went on a tour abroad playing against Gradjanski (Yug) losing 2-1, but a few days later would register its first victory against Lefski Sofia by 2-1. PAO invited and played another 3 teams. Arsenal of Egypt (3-5), Harvatski of Hungary (2-4) and Bitok (Yug) (1-0).


With Hungarian Style

In the summer of 1928, PAO was to participate in it's first official Greek league and looks for someone in Europe to coach them. The Hungarian Milko Forner was chosen. But the league was to fall apart again and not be held. Forner worked very hard at that time scouting and signing the best Greek players. He had an injury and retired, giving his place to Joseph Kinsler, a compatriot of his. The following in year (1929) PAO was unplayable and won the league unbeaten.


The "Eternal Enemies"

The intense rivalry between PAO and Olympiakos had began a couple of years earlier, mainly due to decisions of both trying to manipulate EPO in their favor. But these differences had more to do with administration than on a competitive basis. In 1930, on the 1st of June, PAO were to play Olympiakos at Leoforos. A week earlier, Greece had been thrashed by Romania 8-1 in the Balkan Cup, where the team was totally comprised by Olympiakos players apart from two that were playing for Salonica clubs. When the team returned from Bucharest the PAO fans assaulted the Greek team officials for the reason that they did not include PAO players and secondly for the shame they had brought to the nation. The game was to start at 5:30 p.m., but the stadium was packed 4 hours before play. 10,000 fans had been packed like sardines in the tiny Leoforos to watch this game with great interest because of the build up of what had happened with the Greek NT's arrival.

Before the game, the PAO fans where taunting their counterparts continuously by collectively counting from 1 to 8. Italian referee Barlascina, was called to referee the game as neither side trusted Greek referees, whom they thought could easily be "influenced". PAO went on to thrash Olympiakos 8-2, with legendary Angelos Messaris leading the team with 2 goals and 4 assists. The PAO fans celebrated all evening and even the Mayor of Athens, gave order for the city to be luminated for this great victory over Piraeus. PAO had just drawn 1st blood.

A week later PAO travelled to Salonika to play Aris. 3,000 PAO fans followed the team to Salonica via steamboat and another 2.000 Olympiakos fans also travelled with a different boat to support Aris. PAO wins 4-1 and on the way back to Piraeus, the two boats docked next to each other and fights broke out between the two parties for the first time in the history of the clubs. On the 15th of June the return game was to be played in the Velodrome of Piraeus but the game was postponed twice since the Police Commissioner of Piraeus could not guarantee the safety of the fans. It was finally decided for the game to be played in Salonica in order to avoid the fans from fighting. Fights were not avoided though. PAO won 2-1. After the end of the game fights took place in Salonika, in the trains the fans were traveling with and on the boats.

After that, Panathinaikos and Olympiakos ties were to become the "Salt and Pepper" of Greek football.

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PART II


The Dark Era

Angelos Messaris was the player that had made the club so strong and dominant from 1927-1930. In 1931 though, in a turn of events, he fell out with PAO president Nikolaidis and left the club. It was said that in a disagreement Nikolaidis struck Messaris who vowed never to play for the club again. Many of his team-mates were so angry with the PAO president that they stopped playing in support of their team-mate. Nikolaidis then struck-off not only the players but Kalafatis and other board members as well who took "Messaris' side". The son of the mayor of Athens, Stamatis Merkouris, wanted to become PAO president but did not win the board elections. He then created a new team called "Prasina Poulia" (Green Birds) and signed the PAO players that had left the PAO. PAO disintegrated into nothing. The following year, the team did terribly in the league suffering heavy losses. A year later, the players that had left, returned after finding a solution with Nikolaidis, but Messaris kept his word and never returned to play again officially for the club. The events of the disagreements, was to put PAO so behind, that the league would not be won for another 20 years.


In the Shadow of Olympiakos

The "Green Birds" may have returned but the good climate that existed in 1930 never returned. Kinsler remained as coach, signing the best of players available but could not "gel" a team that was good enough to challenge Olympiakos for the league. This was the time of Panathinaikos' biggest rival, Olympiakos. They won the most leagues, gaining the most supporters thus having bigger gate receipts and becoming richer. The bad luck, was topped in the worst of ways when PAO lost a derby to Olympiakos by 6-1. Then tragedy struck in 1938, when in a PAO-AEK game, Lysandros Dikeopoulos collided in an aerial challenge with AEK's Tasos Tzanetis. The PAO player was knocked-out cold falling into a comma. He died 3 days later of a brain hemorrhage.

In 1940 though, PAO managed to win its 1st title in 10 years by beating Aris Salonica in the Cup final by 3-1.This title was much needed for only for the clubs honor, but for the fans that had waited patiently for some success.


WORLD WAR II

Greece enters the war and many PAO players are called up to serve their duty against the Italians in the mountains of Albania and against the German-Bulgarian forces on the Greek-Bulgarian border. The clubs activities stopped during that time and Leoforos had been transformed into a hospital and storage facility. Mimis Pierakos a player that had served the club as a player for years, known as "Brak" to the fans of PAO, was killed on the Greek-Italian front fighting for his country's freedom. Games were now seldom played. After the German invasion in 1942 all sporting life in Greece seized to exist. Football grounds were now only used by the German, Italian and Austrian occupying forces.

During that time, an organization was organized by Athletes to compete and raise funds for their fellow sportsmen that were suffering and dying of VB. The players of PAO and AEK organized to play a game at Leoforos and a committee went to speak to Nikolaidis to use Leoforos, but also ask for a proportion of the money raised from the ticket sales to be donated to their co-athletes that were dying and seriously ill.

Nikolaidis arranged the game to be officiated by an Austrian occupier, disagreed with both donating money from the gate receipts and also the PAO and AEK's proposal to be officiated by a Greek. Leoforos, had been packed with 15,000 fans who were waiting for this game with great excitement. The PAO and AEK players went out to the pitch and told the fans what had been said between them and Nikolaidis and the PAO board. The fans, went ballistic and stormed the pitch. They chanted in favor of the players and against the board of PAO. The stadium was literally raised to the ground by the enraged public. The Germans feared a revolt and send in many of their units. The mob broke itself up when it saw the Germans gathering machine guns outside Leoforos.

The players did not quit their attempts to raise funds for their colleagues and the players of PAO, Olympiakos, AEK Athens, Apollon Athens arranged a mini-league to be played at Kesariani, which had great success and where the fans where able to see their favorite players once again. The funds raised saved hundreds of athlete’s lives.

The last game PAO played before the occupying forces left was against the British air force. This was 1 week before the Germans left. This game was treated as a celebration for as freedom was now in the air and through out the game the fans were waving Greek, British and American flags.

After the Occupying forces left, Greece was torn by civil war between the Communists and Republicans. No league was held until 1948.


The Battle of Piraeus

In 1948, in the new league that was organized by EPO, PAO seemed very strong with a new coach this time. An Austrian by the name of Strand. PAO beat Olympiakos by 3-1 at Leoforos and now had to face their rivals in Piraeus. If PAO won, they would win the league. Olympiakos were leading 1-0 until the 82nd minute when a tackle by a PAO player injured an Olympiakos player. The Olympiakos fans stormed the pitch and with canes and stones attacked the PAO players and officials. Everyone was expecting PAO to be awarded the points for the fans invasion but the opposite happened and the reds got the win by 2-0 (default victory). Aris was now to decide the league champion.

The "Reds" easily beat Aris by 4-1. PAO then, in their game against Aris, were leading 1-0 until a referees decision went against them and the Aris players assaulted the referee. The game was awarded to PAO (2-0 on default) and to win the league now, PAO had to beat Aris 2-0 in Salonika to clinch the title on goal difference. On July 24th, after the decision of EPO to award the game of Leoforos to PAO, Aris in protest, fielded their reserve team. PAO won 2-0 and were champions again after 19 years!!!

In the next couple of years PAO did not win any league but played several games with foreign teams. PAO played against Rapid Vienna, (2-1, 1-3, 0-1), Galatasaray (5-2), Lille (3-0), an Ethiopian 11 (6-1) and Turkish Pera Club(2-1).

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PART V


The Era of Professional Football

PAO was to get new management in the Vardinogiannis family. For this there were positives and negative. Positive because the clubs finally had the funds to challenge for the best players but negative because Giorgos Vardinogiannis, did not have the experience to run the club. For the first 4 years of Pro-football the Pireans won all the leagues with PAO narrowly missing out in 1980-1981 after they lost to Olympiakos in a play-off by 2-1. PAO in the meantime manages to get some silverware by winning the Greek Cup twice.


A thrashing Brings Changes

In 1982-1983 PAO met Olympiakos in the semi final of the Greek cup. PAO won the 1st leg, 1-0 and in the second the score was the same but this time in the "Red's" favor. The game went into extra time and a rampaging Olympiakos scored another 3 goals. This 4-0 thrashing could not be tolerated. Many plays were told to leave the club and others retired. A new coach was brought in. Jasek Gmoch who was assistant of Gorski in Poland's World Cup Campaign in 1978. The 1st thing he said was that he wanted to 1st build a team for the future that would play well and then in time win silverware. PAO though, with a team which had an average age of 24 wins the league the next season in everyone’s surprise!


The Arrival of Velimir Zaec and Dimitris Saravakos

PAO had just won the league title for 1983-1984 and wanting to strengthen even further brings in Saravakos from Panionios who was being tipped for great things and the captain of Yugoslavia, Velimir Zaec from Dynamo Zagreb. With the two of them PAO would reign for the next few years winning 2 championship in 4 years along with 3 Greek cups and two good runs in Europe. Zaec's (short visionary passing) game complimented that of Juan Ramon Rocha (long distance passing) and along with Saravakos' execution they planted fear in defenses not only in Greece, but Europe also.

PAO began their European run in the Champions Cup in 1984-1985 beating Linfield of Northern Ireland 4-3 on aggregate after a brief scare in Belfast when the Greens where down 3-0 in the 16th minute. PAO though fought back equalizing 3-3 and qualifying. Next opponent was Feyenood of Holland which featured a 22 year old by the name of Ruud Guillit. PAO drew in 0-0 in the De Cuip but won 2-1 in Athens to go through. Next up, was Gothenburg of Sweden who the previous season had won the UEFA Cup. PAO them beat 1-0 away and drew 2-2 in Athens in a tense match and with Saravakos equalizing from the penalty spot with 7 minutes to go. Next was to be the Great Liverpool in the semi-final. PAO lost 4-0 at Anfield, but had complaints because they scored a legitimate goal which was wrongly disallowed by the East German, Kaiser. The return leg was not going to be easy and the Merseysiders ran out winners by 1-0.

It was a good run. Many people shortly after, wished PAO had qualified. The "Heysel disaster" was to occur just a month later. PAO was also unfortunate to lose the league by 1 point to PAOK.

The year after that was a route for PAO as they won the league by 7 points, leaving Olympiakos in 5th position. The capping came in the Cup final. PAO completed the double thrashing their arch enemies Olympiakos by 4-0 with Saravakos scoring an amazing 4th goal after he had just missed a penalty.

The club after that year went into a mini slump which was to last until the 1989-1990 season when the Greens would win the next two Greek leagues.

In 1987 though PAO had an excellent run in the UEFA Cup beating Auxerre 4-3 on aggregate. They then met Juventus. In the 1st leg PAO won 1-0 with a Saravakos missile outside the box. In Turin, everyone was expecting PAO to be annihilated as 3 days before the return leg they had lost 6-3 to OFI Crete at home and many were asking for Vassili Daniel's head. A spirited PAO though, managed to go through on away goals after losing 3-2 with Saravakos again proving a nuisance to the Italians.

In the 3rd round PAO was drawn against Honved of Hungary. PAO were down 5-0 until Saravakos gave PAO a lifeline by scoring 2 goals in the last 15 minutes. In Athens, PAO took it's blood back winning 5-1 and going through 7-6 on aggregate. After that a few weeks later, PAO were to lose their midfield general Velimir Zaec who had his leg broken. He was to return in the return leg of the quarter final against Club Brugge with PAO needing to win or draw at least 2-2 which was the result of the first leg in Athens. Zaec was not match fit though and could not really help the team as they lost 1-0.


Success and Failure

After the 1990-1991 season AEK would be the team to win 3 consecutive titles. PAO would come back after with a team that was made by Bosnian Ivica Osim and then taken over by old player Juan Ramon Rocha and PAO would win the two next titles starring Argentine Juan Jose Borelli and Pole Krystof Warzycha. A team which was to reach the semi final of the Champions league in 1995-1996, only to bow out to Ajax by 3-1 on aggregate.

The league title of 1995-1996 is the last one PAO has won up to today. Since then, PAO's big rival Olympiakos has won 6 in a row.

PAO had also had a good run in Europe in the 1991-1992 season reaching the quarter finals of the 1st experimental Champions league, but also the quarter finals of the 2001-2002 season.

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All this credit goes to a member named Katerina from SFN.

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Domestic Honours
Greek Championships: 19
1930, 1949, 1953, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1977, 1984, 1986, 1990, 1991, 1995, 1996, 2004
Panhellenic (SEGAS) Championship: 1
1911
Greek Cup: 16
1940, 1948, 1955, 1967, 1969, 1977, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 2004
Greek Super Cup: 4
1970, 1988, 1993, 1994
Balkan Cup 1
1978
Doubles: 7
1969, 1977, 1984, 1986, 1991, 1995, 2004

Credit: Wikipedia.org

[Psomiadis2]

Σήμερα κέρδισε 4-0!!!!

PAO 4-0 ATROMITOS

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Panathinaikos trounces Atromitos

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Alexandros Tziolis scored two goals Sunday to help Panathinaikos beat Atromitos 4-0 and retain second place in the Greek league.

Dimitris Salpingidis and Vangelis Mantzios also scored for Panathinaikos, which has 25 points, two behind Olympiakos and one ahead of AEK Athens. AEK beat Kerkyra 4-1 Saturday.

Tziolis gave his team the lead in the eighth minute with a powerful right-foot volley. Dimitris Papadopoulos almost added another in the 44th when he beat two defenders on the edge of the box but his shot was saved by Chrysostomos Michailidis.

Tziolis made it 2-0 with a splendid curling shot in the 70th before Salpingidis added another six minutes later. Mantzios scored in the 82nd.

Also Sunday, it was: Apollon 0, Ergotelis 0; OFI 1, Egaleo 0; Larissa 0, Iraklis 1; Panionios 0, Xanthi 2; and PAOK 3, Ionikos 0.

credit: greeksoccer.com

[Ellinas]

Παναθηναϊκός-Απόλλων Καλαμαριάς 3-2 σήμερα για τη Σουπερ Λίγκα.

Δυο γκολ ο Παπαδόπουλος, ένα ο Σαλπιγγίδης.

[Ellinas]

Σκέψεις για επιστροφή στη Λεωφόρο!


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Tη σκέψη να επιστρέψει ο Παναθηναϊκός στο γήπεδο της Λεωφόρου Αλεξάνδρας φέρεται να επεξεργάζεται η πράσινη ΠΑΕ.
Σύμφωνα με δημοσιεύματα αθλητικών εφημερίδων, η επιστροφή της ομάδας στο "κλουβί" για τα παιχνίδια του πρωταθλήματος και του Κυπέλλου κρίνεται σχεδόν απαραίτητη από τους διοικούντες που έχουν καταλήξει στο συμπέρασμα ότι το Ολυμπιακό Στάδιο δεν αποτελεί δυνατή έδρα ενώ αντίθετα το Απόστολος Νικολαϊδης πιέζει περισσότερο τον αντίπαλο, γεγονός ευεργετικό για την προσπάθεια των παικτών.

Αν τελικά το σχέδιο μπει σε λειτουργία, η ΠΑΕ Παναθηναϊκός θα διαθέσει ένα αρκετά μεγάλο ποσό προκειμένου να γίνουν κάποιες βελτιώσεις στο γήπεδο (εξέδρες, αποδυτήρια, αίθουσα τύπου κα). Φυσικά στο «Απόστολος Νικολαϊδης» θα γιορταστούν και τα 100 χρόνια από την ίδρυση του συλλόγου που συμπληρώνονται το 2008.

Η επικείμενη επιστροφή του Παναθηναϊκού στην ιστορική του έδρα δεν πρόκειται να αλλάξει σε τίποτα το σχέδιο για την κατασκευή γηπέδου στο Βοτανικό. Απλά η ομάδα θα μετακομίσει στο νέο της, πολυτελές, σπίτι ερχόμενη από το «Απόστολος Νικολαϊδης» και όχι από το «ξένο» Ολυμπιακό

contra.gr

[Ellinas]

Μόλις τελείωσε το παιχνίδι με τον Πανιώνιο, 2-0 τελικό σκορ. Η εμφάνιση δεν ήταν ιδιέταιρα εντυπωσιακή, αλλά σίγουρα καλύτερη από παιχνίδια όπως αυτό με τον Άρη.

Σαλπιγγίδης και Νίνης οι σκόρερς. Ο Νίνης κατέρριψε το ρεκόρ του Θωμά Μαύρου και έγινε ο μικρότερος παίκτης που έχει σκοράρει ποτέ στην πρώτη κατηγορία :).