2024-06-05 20:24:14
The plight of the Ioannito followers, to discover a sturdy monetary issue that can take over PAS and lift it very excessive, making the most of its dynamics, isn’t present, however timeless and with roots from the previous.
Let’s return slightly to the distant 1987. It was the top of Could to the start of June, days like now. After which PAS had been relegated from the First Nationwide League and was going through monetary issues. It was the start of the so-called “stone ages” which then handed for plenty of years.
At the moment the nation’s political and financial scene was dominated by Giorgos Koskotas. President of the Financial institution of Crete, writer of magazines and newspapers, he opened branches of the Financial institution throughout Greece. Banker, wealthy, younger, stunning, formidable and initially from Ioannina, from the world of Pogoni. Good supplies for the plot of the situation that he desires to take over PAS Ioannina! Whispers and native press experiences started. Folks’s curiosity is large. Because the saying goes…the fasting loaves dream. Koskotas had not but taken over Olympiakos and had not handled soccer. He was solely a banker and writer.
Saturday, Could 30, 1987. George Koskotas got here to Ioannina for the inauguration of the native department of the Financial institution of Crete. Nobody may method him there. However a gathering with him and a press release about PAS could be of nice curiosity. We realized that within the night on the previous Xenia resort there could be a reception in honor of Koskotas.
We set her up for hours on the reception with the tape recorder hidden in her pocket. And the fellows who labored there have been PAS followers. They helped us, as they had been additionally burning, to seek out out what Koskotas says about our group. Will he take it over or not? With a frappe, we spent limitless hours ready for when the… would-be purchaser of PAS would seem. Sooner or later Koskotas and his entourage seem. As we transfer there, his safety males block us. The executives on the native financial institution department inform Koskotas that we’re from an area newspaper and he instantly nods to allow us to go subsequent to him. On the foot we talked for 2 minutes. “I’ve no intention of getting concerned in soccer and I’m ignorant about PAS” he advised us within the center. When the signer requested him if PAS could be fascinated with him, in case he decides to take up soccer, he replied with a “perhaps”.
Koskota’s statements had been printed within the “Continental Battle” of Tuesday, June 2, 1987 and precipitated an excellent sensation. Success for the signatory, however coal the treasure for the group. Just a few months later, in November 1987, Giorgos Koskotas made a strong entry into soccer by shopping for Olympiakos, with all of the recognized penalties.
I do not know if it was good or dangerous that Koskotas didn’t take care of PAS, with what occurred two years after the well-known revelations about monetary scandals. We’d have been residing an enormous dream for one or two years, seeing the group on the high, however then how wouldn’t it unfold with the financial institution commissioner? And the sq. clock could be taken from us!!