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    Single Year Expats in Greek Football Incredible Football Stories
    Single Year Expats in Greek Football Incredible Football Stories
    Single Year Expats in Greek Football Incredible Football Stories
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    Single Year Expats in Greek Football Incredible Football Stories

    By Alexandros Vasilas

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    Greece, in the years of the 60’s. The country is slowly recovering from the wounds left by World War II. Transport as well as all other types of infrastructure are getting improved and the first signs of economic development become apparent.
    The term “expat football player” sounded really exotic at those times as most teams were basically formed by players from the areas around the team home city with very few players added from other areas mainly for the big clubs. Within fifteen years though, all this was about to change, with clubs reaching to incredible sources looking for the enforcement of their squads! Some of those players only appeared for a single season in Greek football, and this book sheds light on the incredible football stories of those expats for the years 1960 to 1979 when the league was still run on amateur basis. Facts, trivia, biographies, human stories!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlexandros Vasilas
    Release dateAug 11, 2018
    ISBN9789609397216
    Single Year Expats in Greek Football Incredible Football Stories
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    Alexandros Vasilas

    Born and raised in Greece. Completed Bachelor and Masters degrees in Engineering in the UK. Broke into book writing through the love for 'the most important secondary thing in the world: Football'!

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    Single Year Expats in Greek Football Incredible Football Stories - Alexandros Vasilas

    Single Year Expats in Greek Football

    Incredible Football Stories

    Alexandros Vasilas

    Published by Alexandros Vasilas at Smashwords

    Copyright 2017 Alexandros Vasilas

    This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your favorite ebook retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

    TABLE OF CONTENTS

    Table of Contents

    Introduction

    ALCIBAR Antonio Justo

    AUREDNIK Jürgen

    VELJKOVIC Branislav

    VICENTE Rodolfo Gregorio

    ECCLES Terry

    ZERR Hugo Horacio

    GIGLIOTTI Armando Jose

    IRALA Severiano

    KETEMA Yilma

    QUIROGA Guillermo Luis

    CORREA Luis Alberto

    COURBIS Rolland

    KRIVOKUĆA Petar

    MESAROŠ Mihalj

    MORALES Horacio Oscar

    MUGHRABI Ibrahim

    MUJKIĆ Fikret

    BARBOSA Helio Boom-Boom Manuel

    BONDIOLI Gino

    BUDIŠIĆ Nikola

    BROWN Jimmy

    BRINEK Theodor

    NICOLAU Miguel Alberto

    NOGUEIRA China Ronaldo José

    RUI Francisco Damas

    DAUZ Guillermo Oscar

    DECK René

    OJEDA Santiago

    POKLEPOVIĆ Lukša

    RADOVIĆ Lazar

    DJAKOVIČ Drago

    CHARLES Antonio

    FUCHS Daniel

    Players by Team

    Players by Country

    Pictures References

    Bibliography

    INTRODUCTION

    Single Year Expats in Greek Football...

    Greece, in the years of the 60’s. The country is slowly recovering from the wounds left by World War II. The transportation as well as all other types of infrastructure are getting improved and the first signs of economic development become apparent.

    The above had already left their mark in Greek football with the inauguration of the 1st Division League (A Ethniki as it is known in Greek) as of autumn 1959. After three decades of the national league going through the childhood diseases, the time for a yearly national competition had come.

    The term expat football player sounded really exotic at those times as most teams were basically formed by players from the areas around the team home city with very few players added from other areas mainly for the big clubs. Within the 60’s, the regulation on two-year ban for a player to be transferred was amended, as such, the big clubs who were financially stronger began hunting for the best talents available in the country, this is something that triggered the reaction of the affected teams and led to the ban of such transfers by the Sports General Secretary of the Regime of the Colonels time, Mr. Konstantinos Aslanidis. This decision forced the big clubs to look for the enforcement of their squads in an unexpected source, Latin America!

    Until that time, only a handful of expat players had taken part in the 1st division. The pioneer of them was Gaetano Sallusto who played for PAOK in the inaugural season, however Sallusto was a Thessaloniki resident, he didn’t join PAOK as an expat. Other cases who also were knock-on effects of other activities were Brinek (Iraklis Thessaloniki)

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