Aris: What Fetfatzidis said in his interview with Gazeta about “yellow”

Yannis Fetvatzidis returns to the Greek League in the next few days in an Ari shirt and some of his statements – and about “zero” – in his recent interview with Gazeta are unforgettable.

It wasn't… a classic interview he gave a few days ago Panagioti Dalataryov And for magazine Yannis Vitvatzidis. He opened the book of his career wide open, talking about his first steps, all the teams he passed, about his transfers, about his “cursed” chance in the last minute of the AEK-Olympiacos match in Ouaka, and of course among other things. Show To which he returns. So Mars for the biennium 2018-2020.

About his transfer, about how Olympiacos told him that “you are going on loan to Aris” on transfer deadline day, about his request to remain a free agent, about his teammates, about Theodoros Karipidis, Mikael Ening and Savvas Pantelidis. Let's remember this part of the interview, as his move from APOEL to Aare is imminent…

– Olympiacos, after Djordjevic, as a winger, had Galeti, but he had not enjoyed Galeti's tenure in years. Have you ever thought to yourself that you would like to be the next “leader”?

“Yes, maybe… Of course, I dreamed about it. That's why I left without feeling completely satisfied.”

-Do you self-criticize?

“Yes, I always do and it's never one person's fault. You can't blame just one person.”

-If you could go back in time, what would you like Giannis to be like?

“I would like to be the player I saw with Aris when I was 20 years old. Did you understand; To be more prepared and more mature. do not worry. But if you can achieve that maturity and get it in your twenties, then you're Papi. These players, the top-level 20-year-old players, are something else. If I played like I did at Aris when I was 20, I would be a player who could go to Leverkusen and not move on from eleven years old. It's a good question to answer that I would like to be more mentally prepared. To be able to say “to @αρχιδι@ whatever is said, whatever is heard and I will be as I should be.” Man, I couldn't do it though. I didn't have the same personality and the same profession. I went to Ares, having already played in Serie A. I was confident and could say, “Here I will be the best player.” I was in Al-Ahly. Very good level, difficult level and I was essential and irreplaceable. On Mars, I can say that. I played in the Champions League, I went to the World Cup. Aris has pressure but not like Olympiacos. On Mars I had better control because I was better mentally. I had a good technique and I was like, 'Who's going to get the ball for me and why?' At Olympiacos, there were phases where I lost the ball, and that was not allowed. “This is not because I did not have this technique, but because of the stress.”

Read the full interview with Yianni Fatfazidis here

-So you returned to Olympiacos. Everything happened as we said and you go to Mars..

“I didn't like at all that Olympiacos asked me this thing even on the last day of the transfer window. They didn't even warn me, Martins was telling me: ‘It looks different, but you are here with us, I like you.’ My mind was there. On the last day of the transfer window “They told me I was going on loan to Aris. I was crazy!” As for me, I am from the academy, because I missed this opportunity with AEK? I'm not random, and I'm not irrelevant. Don't consider me a major player, but let me be there. Why should I be there? Does this happen especially on the last transfer day? I didn't want to go on loan, so I canceled the contract and went free. From Olympiacos they told me about 2-3 other teams. I think Nottingham was too and I said 'no'. It was a last minute decision for me to go to Mars. I also spoke with Caribides who showed me how much he wanted me.

Aris was a very good team at that time, they were in good shape, they had Matteo, Bruno Gama, Djene… so I find it a bit difficult there in the first period as well. I was saying to myself: “I won't play at all?” With Pantelidis during the semester and Ening. My contract was up until the summer. In the summer, Pantelidis took me and asked me to stay in the team, while I also received a call from Maccabi Haifa, which we can see how strengthened it is. Very good level, Champions League, but in the end I preferred Aris.

“I've seen 100 extremists in videos and no one is better than you,” Pantelidis told me. I wanted to say to him, “Now will you tell me?” But I didn't tell him. We talked a little, I told him my story, he told me his. I decided to return to Mars and the development I expected happened.

I stayed at Aris and loved it afterwards. If you're good, people will like you. It's hard to be liked when you're not playing. If you're not good, the world can give you a chance, give you time. Not forever, but in difficult times you need support. You want support from coaches and departments. So the second year at Aris is going well and I am the best second player behind Levi Garcia. I think I was the best player in Greece that season. I wanted this title. From PSAPP, if I'm not mistaken, the best Greek was Masouras, and I was in the top 11. You can say that in 3 years of football in Greece, I was one of the best players. “I was 29-30 years old at the time, and there was interest from the Emirates.”

-Before you went to Al-Kor, there was another team that wanted you…

“Al Ain always wanted me. They offered me a contract even bigger than the contract I had at Al Ahly. We also signed a preliminary agreement. Al Ain is the dream team in Asia and everything was ready for me to go there, but they did not answer one last thing they should have Getting him. 3-4 days passed and we started to worry. They didn't show up on the 5th day and we read that they took a player who is now my teammate at APOEL, Wilson Eduardo, who they got for free from Braga. So, I went to Alcor, and Aris also took the money and I'm literally saving it “We were a crying team and I saved the team and scored 8 goals. A team that was a joke. We scored 15 goals in total, and I scored 8 of them, because I don't have many goals. I said there that I would go to a big team! There, if you are good, you can play in a team Good. It bothered me that we were in a café and I was losing. I was losing, losing…. If I had been in Al Gharafa and won, I would have no problem. The whole Middle East is looking to Saudi Arabia. I also made a door… and in the end I didn't go to anyone A place and I stayed in Al-Kor and the second season. I had a three-year contract, with the condition that if we were relegated I would leave. We were relegated and I left but I stayed in Qatar as part of the team, Al-Sailiya. Don't tell you that the standard there was worse than Al-Kor… it wasn't good there Also I didn't have a good time at all. “The atmosphere was strange, it didn't suit me at all.”