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He is no longer a coach, but he … get out of here in person!
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Even if you celebrate Christmas, only this time your celebration lasts much longer than usual!
I am referring to Christos Serelis, who on December 19 expelled Vangelis Ziagos from Iraklis and last night expelled Giorgos Vovoras from Panathinaikos.
Of course, it was scapularized by Elias Papatheodorou who seems to have had … a more patient saint or chief than his two colleagues!
Joking past … Lavrio de Lavrio (as he has taken root in this bank since spring 2004 and the account continues) brings disaster!
So goes Vovoras who, unwittingly, solemnly justifies himself by the prophecy that he had made publicly and personally exactly two months ago.
It was on Tuesday, November 3, that I had the pleasure and honor of presenting him on the Pick N ‘Roll program on Cosmote TV and I asked him how he experienced the moment when he officially assumed the technical leadership of Panathinaikos, last June.
His answer surprised me!
«As soon as I met with the administration and we agreed, I went home and my wife saw me upset. She asked me why and then I told her that “today I signed that at some point I will leave Panathinaikos”»!
He meant it, he didn’t say anything unreal, but he didn’t expect this moment to come so quickly. «It’s the fate of our work, the hardest part of it, but we like it»!
The former Panathinaikos coach is no longer a masochist, but simply realistic and cynical, as he deserves.
And those who are being fired now
Former Leeds manager (1988-1996) Howard Wilkinson once said it with utter cynicism.
«There are two categories of coaches: those who were laid off in the past and those who will be laid off in the future.“!
This morning Vovoras confirmed this point of view (neither in the past nor in the future, but) in the present tense.
«Eat a big bite, don’t say a big word “, without a doubt and this concerns everyone, everyone who does this work and as the former coach and current TV director and producer Spyros Foskolos had said – good time -, “From the moment a coach is hired, his dismissal is already underway»!
Nothing is more true than this …
«And vice versa, time counts»Which also says the song of Michalis Hatzigiannis …
This great conversation was told again in “Pick N ‘Roll”, on the 8th of last month, by Francis Albertis, but by nature he could not express another opinion …
“GEORGE, YOU’RE OKAY, DON’T STRESS”!
I asked him how he would handle the moment when the new Panathinaikos administrative leadership had to make a tough and unpleasant decision.
Then he turned to the camera and said laughing.
«George, you’re fine, don’t stress»!
At the time, George was really fine and didn’t get stressed, as much as last night after Lavrio fell.
«I don’t know what that moment will be like, but now there is no such thought or intention.The green OEM general manager had underlined it at the time, but it brings time to cabbages, time brings parasites.
This moment came a few hours ago, following the fiasco, which caused the sinking of the ship in the port of Lavreotiki, where, by the way, Serelis works as head of technical services.
I asked Albert that night if the boat had been shaken before and he replied in the affirmative, referring to the four consecutive losses in the Euroleague, by Villeurbanne and before the victory in Milan.
«Yes, the ship shook. We were worried, but our objective does not change. We have to give what we can in each game and show a fighting and fighting person.».
This is exactly what didn’t happen yesterday – the Panathinaikos was softer than butter that has even been left out of the fridge!
THE 14 STOPS AND THE 21 ERRORS
This was also evident from the teleportation, but Christos Serelis should have taken it from a young age, who confessed it to me a few hours ago.
«I realized there was no way we could lose in the third half, when we made an individual score of 33-17 and Kozi actually hit that 3 from the crossbar as the icing on the cake.».
At that moment, the Greens felt that their cells and reflexes were dying, they showed that they could not react, after all, the numbers that this time tell the truth say so.
Lavrio made 14 steals and Panathinaikos made 21 mistakes!
Hours later, this morning, the chronicle of a preannounced divorce was written and the fraudulent Vovoras lived from another role what he saw happen in the past with Argyris Pedoulakis, Xavi Pascual and Rick Pitino.
He also took out the three files to give to the next coach.
Oh yes, this is a very instructive story, one that adapts to every occasion …
RAILY, THE BLONDE AND THE ENVELOPES
In the 2000-01 season, when Giannis Ioannidis (again) had left Olympiakos and had no way of killing his time, he took Aris Raftopoulos and his namesake and nickname “Dutch” and went for a long walk around Miami. , where they were invited by the then head coach (and current president) of the Heat, Pat Riley.
The two had met in the summer of 1995, when the “blonde”, as SEPK president, took him to Athens to teach at the coaches’ seminar organized on the occasion of the Eurobasket and Riley ate to reciprocate the hospitality.
As soon as Ioannidis returned from America, he gave me a very interesting interview (published in “Vima tis Kyriakis”) with his impressions of the NBA, the charm he felt, the mutation he underwent, but also the cursed files!
He says, a coach took over the technical direction of a team and as soon as he entered the office, he found three envelopes on the table in which there was a ravasaki left by his predecessor and wrote “put them in the drawer and open them one by one when you have trouble».
Sure enough, at some point the problems arose and then the coach went to the first folder that gave him instructions on how to manage them.
«Let’s say the team is not trained, their psychology is at nadir, and the previous coach left behind a scorched earth …».
The technician invoked all this, at some point the situation improved a bit, but soon the problems started again.
Then he opened the second file and followed the new directive that said “throw them out of favor, in bad arbitration and ask for time credit»!
He followed the so-called second instruction, but the situation instead of getting better, got worse and then he opened the third file and was shocked, reading the last command …
«Prepare three new files now, because if you can’t quit on your own, you’ll be fired»!
THE WARRIORS AND THE SHOCK
The story sticks to the occasion of Vovoras that has many arguments: the outbreak of the coronavirus, the distancing of Dimitris Giannakopoulos, the drastic reduction of the budget, the departure of Nick Kalathis and Deson Thomas, the suffering with Laprovitos in the acquisition of a creator Classic and reliable game play, setbacks in team performance, faulty defensive function and no convergence.
Oh yeah, I forgot: and Lavrio’s crescendo, who scored his sixth win in a row and gave him the free kick!
Jokingly, due to the uniformity of the colors on the jerseys, but also the sympathy Serelis has for the call, he could fake an old football slogan that worried Ajax and adapt it accordingly.
Bring us the Warriors, oh, for their time (NBA champions) Lakers!
In such cases, tradition and practice lead to one conclusion: for teams to come together, they need a clash!
For Panathinaikos this clash occurred today and was violent with Vovoras as a scapegoat: I do not claim that it is a collateral loss, because in such cases, administrations sacrifice on the altar of the clash and the need for a team to recover, the technician. .
They cannot, devil, expel all the players, so they change general and hope that the army responds better to the physiognomy of the battle …
From each battle: Thursday with Zenit, Sunday with AEK and so on.
I have great sympathy, respect and appreciation for Vovoras, in fact at least twice after defeats in the Euroleague, I have asked myself the obvious here …
What else can fukaras do? Swords to swallow!
VOVORA’S RESPONSIBILITIES
With what I write I do not intend to reward him, after all, he knows better than anyone his errors, omissions and any of his … audacity, as a soul said yesterday in the stadium on Alexandra Avenue.
Obviously the clinical picture of Panathinaikos, the constant … instability in their performance (as David Blatt once said about Aris), the black hole constantly opening on defense, the frequent reference to the hero ball when Papapetros and when Nedovic and all the accomplices are issues that harassed him and he could not resolve them.
On the one hand, the failures with the elections of Foster and August fell on him, and on the other hand, the case of the direction of Sant Ross (which was necessarily baptized as a point guard and at the same time was caused by rival defenses), and Patratag came to work from Lavrio!
Last night, Vovoras publicly apologized for the team’s image, but as it turned out on top of the hourglass, not a drop of water was left …
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