Difference between revisions of "Panathinaikos FC"
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Revision as of 13:38, March 21, 2007
Team History
Football in Greece, made it's appearance in about 1890 but there was no official championship since it was considered as a sport for the low class people. There were some people, though, who had predicted that this sport would eventually become the most popular sport in Greece. Giorgos Kalafatis, was the one who really believed in football and in December of 1908 at the age of 18, he founded the team of Panathinaikos F.C. The president of the team was Alexandros Kalafatis, Giorgos' brother. Giorgos Kalafatis is now considered as Greek's soccer "Father". The name of the club was by then P.O.A. (Podosfairikos Omilos Athinon - Football Club of Athens). The club changed it's name twice during the time period of 1910 - 1918.
In 1918 there were two more historical decisions were taken. First of all, it was decided that the official color of the team would be the green, as in most of the matches the players were not using the same outfit. The other decision was about the club's symbol. Panathinaikos until then didn't have any official symbol and it was decided that the "Triffili" would be the one. The man who had the idea of that symbol was, Michalis Papazoglou, a great athlete from Constantinople who played for the team of Chalkidona, which had the same symbol. This idea was accepted by the Panathinaikos council. Panathinaikos got it's final name in May 15, 1924. It was changed to P.A.O. (Panathinaikos Athlitikos Omilos - Panathinaikos Athletic Club).
Panathinaikos became popular almost immediately and soon it's superiority was acknowledged. Greek authorities for the previously mentioned reasons didn't want football to be played in Greece, but they realized that the fans of that sport were rapidly increasing. Finally they were forced to officially recognize football and the Panathinaikos team. It was one more triumph of Giorgos Kalafatis and Panathinaikos.
In Europe
Panathinaikos played his first offical European competitive football game against the Czechoslovakian team of Spartak Hradec Kralove for the European Champions Cup on November 6, 1960 and lost 1-0.
The team today
On May of 2006, Panathinaikos FC appointed Swedish coach Hans Bakke to replace Alberto Malesani at the helm of the Greek giants. Malesani's two-year tenure was ended by mutual consent. Bakke resigned his position in September after a disappointing 1-1 UEFA Cup home draw to Ukrainian outfit Metallurg Zaporizhzhya. His replacement is Spanish coach Victor Munoz.
Star Players
30s - 40s
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50s - 60s
70s - 80s
90s - Today
Coaches
- Miko Forner
- Josef Kinsler
- Harry Game
- Antonis Migiakis
- Stjepan Bobek
- Lakis Petropoulos
- Ferenc Puskas
- Kazimierz Gorski
- Gavrilos Gazis
- Bruno Pesaola
- Ronnie Allen
- Andreas Papaemmanouil
- Helmut Senekowitsch
- Ivica Osim
- Stefan Kovac (1981 - 83)
- Jacek Gmoch
- Velimir Zajec
- Maik Galakos
- Vasilis Daniil
- Yiannis Kalogeras
- Gunther Bengston
- Pietr Packert
- Tomislav Ivic
- Juan Ramon Rocha
- Fernando Santos
- Yiannis Kyrastas
- Angelos Anastasiadis
- Stratos Apostolakis
- Sergio Markarian
- Yitzhak Shum
- Zdenek Skazny
- Alberto Malesani
- Hans Bakke
- Victor Munoz