Mimis Margelis has died

People leave… Unfortunately, they leave one by one, and just when they are so loved, they leave together!

Dimitris Margielis breathed his last yesterday morning (29/8) at the age of 82, a week before the death of his beloved wife Fotini!

“She called him to her, she couldn’t bear to be alone.” Their son, veteran international basketball player Christos Margelis, philosophizes in his grief and mourning.

Mr. Mimis left a strong mark on the development of Olympiacos and in general on Greek basketball in the 1980s and 1990s.

From 1980 to 1988, he was successively vice-president and treasurer of the amateur club Olympiacos, while at the same time he was manager of the team that was then going through the “stone years” and in charge of the academies.

When Olympiacos was struggling administratively, financially and competitively, the beloved Mr. Mimis, Petros Chatzikostas and George Naomis tried to keep the ship afloat. He himself knew this job well, having been one of the first seafaring agents in the port of Olympiacos. Piraeus.

At that time, when the red and white team was having financial problems, the deceased was walking around Piraeus all day and night to collect money from his shipowner friends, so that the players and coaches could pay their salaries.

Furthermore, he mediated with the veteran Olympiacos player and doctor, Dimitris Doratsos, for Kostas Politis to invite Argiris Kambouris to the national team.

At the same time, but also later, when basketball entered the professional stage, he was a member of the Board of Directors of ESKA and Piraikos, while pioneering the founding of ESKANA.

Mimi Margielis’ funeral will take place on Thursday, August 31 at 11:00 at the Resurrection Cemetery in Keratsini.