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'''Dimitris "Mimis" Pierrakos''' was a [[Greeks|Greek]] football player.
 
'''Dimitris "Mimis" Pierrakos''' was a [[Greeks|Greek]] football player.
  

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Mimis Pierrakos

Dimitris "Mimis" Pierrakos was a Greek football player.

Pierrakos was born in 1906 and played in the midfield for Panathinaikos in the pre-WW II era (1926 - 1933). He joined the war effort in 1940 and, in November 1940, fell on the battlefield in the Battle of Pogradec. His remains were brought back to Athens in 1950 and he received a hero's burial on November 19 of that year.