THE Sotiris Sylaidopoulos celebrated two European titles this year with Olympicone at the U19 level and one at the Men’s level and he talked about all of this at News Bulletin 247.
The Greek coach was hosted on the air of the show Newsroom and discussed with him Tasso Nikolopoulos for the conquest of the Conference League & Youth League, the foundations that the Piraeus have laid for the future, Medilibar and beyond.
What he said in detail:
“It’s still too early to believe it, two European titles. I consider myself blessed. I thank those who trusted me and gave me the opportunity to live these moments in a big club, two brilliant moments, maybe the most brilliant and great moment and the Youth League.
The two groups were two highly communicating vessels. K19 did the upset against Lance, then came the historic 6-1 against Maccabi Tel Aviv. K19 took a 3-0 lead against Bayern Munich, the matches against Aston Villa came.
Moments in both teams that are very similar and I think they really brought each other along, it created a belief in the organization that we can achieve a lot. They grew, match by match.
Both exuded confidence in the finals. It is not usual for Greek teams to play such big matches.
The most important thing is how the operation of the club looks, two titles in the first team and developmental ages. The team moves to European standards, we have nothing to envy from the foreign teams.
It changes the way they might treat you next year. And for the Greek teams it creates a path of faith that they can reach such distinctions.
I think that Olympiacos has already taken several steps to diversify, without wanting to diminish any team, there are certainly others that work very well. The facilities, the people of the club, the vision of the president and his thirst for the team to be the star, have laid a strong foundation for the years to come. To create a footpath in terms of European discrimination.
He already has strong grounds to change the level, with this title it certifies that it has the foundations to continue.
It is a huge honor for me to be next to Mendiliber, and as a course it is the ideal scenario for any coach to develop being in a development team and at the same time in the first one.
When we talk about a final, you feel it’s a different match. The most important element that Medilibar emphasized and characterizes him is that no process changed, it was like a match like the previous ones in Greece and Europe.
That naturalness that faced the whole situation, to be consistent with what we’ve done before, is really a smart thing. For him to have led you there, he goes to say that it is right.
It is too early to evaluate the best moment, every match is unique when you live it. After the 6-1 against Maccabi if it made us… EEG would flash red, they would mistake us for aliens!
In the final, when the final whistle blows, a huge energy is released throughout the venue, I say it and I shudder.
Certainly El Kaabi was decisive, but there are no laggards in such successes. MVP was the team and Mediliber.
The final was decided in the details, we said it before, it is decided by the team that will take advantage of its moments.
What determined the result was the will, look at the goal, the claim of Ibora, Ese, the way he left to claim the ball in the 116′, it shows the will to leave victorious. At 120+1′, three players fell on the ball.
What we experienced this year in three words? Strong, durable, legendary.”
Source: Sport Fm
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