One of the living legends of Greek sports and especially basketball, Efthynis Renziaswas one of the victims of the unprecedented bad weather Daniel that hit it whole of Thessaly at the end of last week.

Resident of Megali Kalyvia, of the village that was hit the hardest in the prefecture of Trikala and which he stayed submerged in water for two days, cut off from the outside world, he himself saw his house being drowned by the rushing waters of the overflowing rivers. In fact, he remained trapped without water and electricity for 48 hours, together with his parents, and was rescued by boat by the rescuers operating in the village. Shocked, Efthimis Rentzias speaks to trikalavoice.gr for “moments that no one wants to live even now.” my mind is only for my fellow villagers who saw their lives lost, but also for the rest of the flood victims of our prefecture and Thessaly”. He saw himself lose through his hands “the memories of my whole life” as the basement of his house where he kept his office and all his archive of medals, jerseys from the NBA and European teams he honored, computer hard drives, newspaper articles, was flooded. “This is nothing in front of the lives that were lost” he says and walks past it.

He speaks of a “literal flood” and having himself served as deputy governor of Thessaly for 9 years notes that “I completely understand the rage and anger of my fellow human beingsbut we should not forget how much Kostas Agorastos, Christos Michalakis and Dimitris Papastergiou worked day and night all the previous years and how much they changed Thessaly by making the Region a model, Trikala a model. I think we need calmness and a complete reconstruction plan for Thessaly and our country”.