Papafotiou on sport-fm.gr: “We want the top everywhere: Championship, Cup and Europe – Rouxi is a symbol”

The women’s volleyball team of Panathinaikos is preparing for high flights, as Athena Papafotiou clarified speaking to sport-fm.gr, as part of the established media day.

The leader of the “trefoil” did not hide the big goals they have set for the team, stressing how everywhere they “see” the top.

In addition, he spoke about the coverage of Women’s Volleyball League matches by ERT, an event that had happened for many years, while he mentioned with emotion Ruxi Dumitrescu and the recent memorial event organized by Panathinaikos.

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In detail, what he said to Giorgos Zachariou:

For the goals of Panathinaikos: “The target is known. We know what is the goal of Panathinaikos and especially the volleyball department. These are also the personal goals of each athlete and of the whole. What we will expect is something we have to shape ourselves through the process of training and

of the games that will start soon.

For whether one of the objectives has priority: “There is no preference, there is no comparison, for us the three goals are the championship, the Cup and Europe, so in everything we want to aim for the top and what happens in the end is what will define us.”

For the preparation with Dragan Nesic: “We are still in the process of preparation. It is something unprecedented, it cannot be compared to the previous year because he is a new coach in this phase we are in. Everything is going smoothly, the coach is very specific in what he asks and demands. It leaves no room for deviating in the process of training and matches. We have set goals, we are still far from them and we know it, but that’s why we do the friendlies, game by game to improve.”

For television: “After many years, there will finally be women’s team sports representation on public television that hasn’t been there all these years. In my opinion it was a huge problem and deficit and lack of awareness. Finally we will exist, we will enter the houses and I hope it will be the beginning for there to be continuity and for even more women’s sports to enter”.

For the memorial event for Ruxi Dumitrescu: “We all gathered together to honor a great player who unfortunately is no longer with us. I hope at least all this support from the world and the movement of Panathinaikos, the withdrawal of the shirt, will somehow relieve the pain of its own people, because for us it is and will be a symbol. She is one of the best players who ever lived and for many years we will look at her and say, I want to be like her, I want to be like her. She has left this imprint on all of Panathinaikos, along with her love and on all of volleyball.