Brief history of Panathinaikos
In 1890, in the area of Exarhia, a few hundred meters away from the stadium of Panathinaikos in Athens(also called the Leoforos stadium because of its location at Alexandra Leoforos), George Calafatis was born, the founder of Panathinaikos. George Calafatis studied medicine at the University of Athens and gymnastics at the Academy of Gymnastics. He was a great talent in throw, jump and trace. However his passion rested with football. When he was 18 and already a champion in the team of Panellinios he was making efforts to create a football team. All the big fields in Athens, sited mainly at Goudi and Rouf, were the first football fields of the newborn Calafatis team. Moreover when Panellinios refused to proceed to the founding of an official football team, George Calafatis created the ancestor team of Panathinaikos, called Athens Football Club. This was in autumn 1908.
Among the founders, except George Calafatis, were his brother Alexander who also was the first president, D. Doukakis, P. Bouboulis, E Chricis (vice president), Granitsas, Mantzakos, Papageorgiou, Gaetas, Demertzis, I. Stavropoulos, Pashos, Misakian, Reppas, Sapounias, Garoufalias.
The emblem Trefoil
In 1918 the First World War was over. Even though troubles were not yet over for Greece, football activity begun again in 1918 and PPO (Panellinios Podosfairikos Omilos) changed its name into Panhellinic Football and Sports Group (PPAO (Panellinios Podosfairikos Agonistikos Omilos)). Green was the color of the team and a trefoil was its emblem, drawn by George Hatzopoulos, head of the National Gallery of Athens and member of Panathinaikos. Panathinaikos supporters loved passionately the new symbol of their team. At the celebration of peace 1919. In Paris the end of the war was celebrated with an unofficial Olympiad and six football players of Panathinaikos took part in the football team of our country (D. Demertzis, G. Demertzis, Calafatis, Papathanasiou, Panourgias, Stavropoulos).
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