THE AEK won the 13th championship in its history since its establishment and the 11th title in the years since the establishment of the First National/Super League. THE Matias Almeida he becomes the eighth coach in the history of the “yellow and black” to win the championship and joins a list that includes the names of Negreponti, Tsaknadi, Stankovic, Tchaikovsky, Stamatiadis, Bajevic and Jimenez, as the league’s website reports.
At the same time, he becomes the 27th foreign coach to put his name next to winning the title in the years of the A’ National/Super League and only the second from Argentina after Juan Ramon Rocha. Coaches from other countries dominate this field, with only nine Greeks and the last to win a championship was Takis Lemonis in 2016-17.
The coaches who have celebrated the championship come from 15 different foreign countries and the dominant ones are Hungary and Spain with four different representatives. Chaknadi, Bukovi, Puskas, Lorad are from the school of the Magyars and Segura, Valverde, Mitchell, Jimenez from that of the Iberian Peninsula.
The last country to make the list was Romania with Razvan Lucescu, while only Juan Ramon Rocha and Matias Almeida are the only non-Europeans. Dusan Bajevic has the most conquests with eight, while from the Greeks Lakis Petropoulos and Takis Lemonis have reached the crown four times. The score between the foreign and Greek coaches has reached 48-16.
Source: Sport Fm
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