It’s a big and difficult decision, which is why it’s not the most common. Anyway the choice of Kostas Sloukas to move to Panathinaikos leaving Olympiakos is not unprecedented, since it was preceded by 16 other player cases who chose to do the same route directly or the reverse.
The list includes from Skropolitha, Paspali and Volkov in the last century, until Spanoulis, Perperoglou, Lojeski and Papapetrou recent years. Let’s see them in detail:
Petros Dimitropoulos (Olympic 1939-1948 and Panathinaikos 1948-1950)
Christos Iordanidis (Panathinaikos 1968-1979 and Olympiacos 1979-1982)
Jerry Jenkins (Panathinaikos 1977/1978 and Olympiacos 1978/1979)
Nikos Darivas (Panathinaikos 1979-1983 and Olympiacos 1983-1985)
Keith Woolfolk (Panathinaikos 1980-1982 and Olympiacos 1982/1983)
George Skropolithas (Olympic 1980-1983 and Panathinaikos 1983-1992)
Zarko Paspali (Olympic 1991-1994 and Panathinaikos 1994/1995)
Sasha Volkov (Panathinaikos 1993/1994 and Olympiacos 1994/1995)
Johnny Rogers (Olympic 1997-1999 and Panathinaikos 1999-2002)
Alexander Anthis (Olympic 1997/1998 and Panathinaikos 1998/1999)
Nikos Boutouris (Panathinaikos 1998-2000 and Olympiacos 2000-2003)
Andrija Zizic (Olympic 2005-2007 and Panathinaikos 2007/2008)
Vasilis Spanoulis (Panathinaikos 2005/2006, 2007/2010 and Olympiacos 2010-2020)
Stratos Perperoglou (Panathinaikos 2007-2012 and Olympiacos 2012-2014)
Matt Lojeski (Olympic 2013-2017 – Panathinaikos 2017-2019)
Ioannis Papapetrou (Olympic 2013-2018 and Panathinaikos 2018-2022)
Kostas Sloukas (Olympic 2008-2015, 2020-2023 and now Panathinaikos)
Source: Sport Fm
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