Frame Galis, Fanis and Papanikolaou

Dimitris Itodis said it, but who listens to him!

It was said by Efthimis Kioumurtzoglu, but who would listen to him …

And of course I wrote it, but I didn’t follow it at all!

For this reason, from today and henceforth, I vow, I can even swear, that I will never again mention Slukas, Calathes, Dorsey, or even Antetokoubeiko, whose presences are played and not left out…

So I wrote here last Friday verbatim the following:

Let’s love what we have

As some philosopher once said,If you don’t have what you love, love what you have!

I’ve written this before on other occasions and I’m repeating it now because, hell, it’s not the absence that matters from now on, but the present.

It is already unpleasant for those present to constantly hear the conversation going on about the absent, moreover, they know very well that they are obliged to put their feet in very wide shoes without double and triple soles..

One prisoner, then…

There is also a second text: shortly after the publication of this text, the always stern Efthimis Kioumurtzoglu, who sat (I remind you) on the bench of the national team from May 1989 to July 1994, sent me a letter …

Where did you hide Jalis?

It bothers me that the lion’s share of publicity Absent and not present in the national team.

I remind you, something neither of you remember nor write. On the eve of the 1990 World Series when Galis was injured, the nameNot mentioned at all Until the next call. Even the coach of the Spanish national team, Díaz, thought we had hidden him.!

Is “CoachK” right, no fool than Antonio Diaz Miguel who was asking day and night where we hid a “gangster”!

Lantern and dry bread!

We did not hide him anywhere and a few days later (after the defeat at the hands of the Americans in overtime, because he did not count the basket of Nassos Galacteros) Galis appeared, turned into … Christodoulou!

Lantern and dry bread, with 32 points, 10 rebounds, six assists, and the rest is ice cream!

In the decisive match for qualification to the eight, the national team defeated Spain 102-93 and the treacherous dyads were looking for Galis in exile in Salta!

For history, the “gangster” was shot at the thirty-third^a His birthday (July 23, 1990), in the Acropolis Championship match against Czechoslovakia in Glyfada

There was certainly talk about the issue, because both the literature developed around the seriousness of his condition, and the conspiracy theory that had to do (as in 1988, when he joined the national team belatedly in view of the pre-Olympics tournament) with his ties to the administration? European Economic Community.

Gasparis: “Shall we stick pots too?”

Anyway, Galis didn’t follow through with the assignment to Argentina and took his place in the twelve with Giorgos Gasparis (against Angelos Koronis) who was full of self-confidence and made a statement that caused a stir…

“Jalis is a great player, but we’re here too. Did we stumble?”

That’s what I want to hear from the national team keepers who will try to fit into the shoes of… (sic) the unnamed and take on the difficult task of doing the job beautifully and pastorally.

Let them say, you know, they don’t stick and prove it, after all, here’s Manila, here’s the jump!

Yesterday afternoon, in the first meeting of the national team, Dimitris Etodis necessarily mentioned the absences, after all, it is he who is responsible for managing them and, above all, for camouflaging them …

Itudis commitment

He said what he said about each of them and concluded with an appropriate moral lesson…

“The most important thing is the present. Obviously the names of players who are absent or have problems are very loud, but we have the present and we are ready to work and represent Greece’s money with the greatest pride.”.

From your mouth, coach, and to God’s permission!

Front and back of the jersey

Veriotis’ coach also said something else – and in fact at the end of this report – the coach …

“I will Our captain, Kostas Papanicolaou, let me use what he said in his speech to the rest of the players before the first training session: We play on what is written on the front of our shirt (i.e. Greece), to build on what is written on the back (i.e. his name). Kostas has been in the national teams for many years and knows very well what that means..

I agree, exaggerate and exaggerate, really using a very common and favorite expression of Itudis himself, which is undoubtedly true!

With those and with those, the national team started working from yesterday, it had problems and pending issues, but let’s not paint it black, let’s not cry…

2009 breakthrough And… Long live Zissi!

In the past, time and time again, such adversities rallied and their strength led to breakthroughs, for example, at EuroBasket 2009, from which a long drought began, which continues to this day.

Το τι συνέβη τότε πορεί, του Λάζαρου Παπαδόπουλου, του Μιχάλη Κακιούζη, του α αρτσαρή και του Δήμου Ντικούδη.

In any case, Etodis acted wisely, witnessed Papanicolaou’s speech, and even more wisely, the chief said and spoke …

The children are playing for our country and if they succeed the result will be an added value to their party!

Photo frame in the dressing room

Normally, starting today, the national team staff should arrange and hang a frame in the OAKA locker room where that absolutely correct saying about Papanicolaou will be written in bold letters…

Or, since we live in the age of the electronic revolution, let’s make it either a title in a group on WhatsApp or Viber, or a wallpaper on their mobile phone!

Pure icon, everyone must have it!

It is only for this tribune which he has erected, apart from the rest of his propositions and presentations, that he who is called shall be entitled to be captain.

He’s a boss anyway, regardless of whether he wears (also) the armband…