Athenaeus: “My dream was to play in the National – After it was done, I am leaving full”

THE Giannis Athens announced his withdrawal from active action to age 37 and ‘hosted’ at Eok webradioreferring to his career, but also his new “road” in basketball, as a staff member of a well -known athlete representation company.

In his professional career, which began in 2006, the Athens passed through many groups, including Olympiacos, Panathinaikos, AEK, PAOK and Mars.

His last season spent them in Elite League with his jersey Pantracicwhile he was also international with National Greece, stressing that this was the greatest achievement in his career.

In detail what he said:

For his withdrawal: “It was really something I was thinking about before the year was over. It was something that I really wanted to happen and to be the continuation I chose to do. It was not a decision of one or two days, it was fully aware. What I had actually said with my agenda, George Panou, who we are now partners, was that if it is to happen, I wanted to start without the time for the transition. Otherwise, I was sure I would be affected on the contrary. “

For when he thinks he will “kill” the player in him: “I will definitely kill him after months. Of course now there is not much time to think about the playing and racing track. It is a very “hot” period for us. I have a lot to deal with every day, so I’m not trying to think a lot. “

For his whole career: “I really made a huge circle, which I had never imagined I would have committed. Starting at Elysian, where he was at the time A2 and when I went to A1 I remember returning home and saying “I didn’t play today, I can’t be in A1”. The whole situation went through a thousand waves until it came to wear the coat of arms. I don’t think any child has a different dream. This was my biggest dream, to fight in the Men’s National and to represent my country. As soon as that happened, I couldn’t be full. “

Whether the winning three -pointer against Great Britain in 2017 is the most important moment in his career: “I’m not discussing it, it was a very important moment for me personally. Whatever the positive thing happens with the coat of arms, it does not come compared to all the rest you have lived. At least for me, but I think this is the view of many other children. There is no doubt about what is my most important moment as an athlete. It definitely has the top this moment in Leicester. From then on, sometimes there may be important moments, as the injury I had. “

For his serious injury: “This was the point that marked me the most in my career, because a world was lost, an event that I was waiting for her how and how she was lost two days before we left for the trip. Good or bad, I had been to the highest level in the Euroleague, with one of the best teams in Greece and Europe, Panathinaikos, though it was not in the times it is now in. For me it was very important to be able to find a second chance at the top level. What happened, the team supported me, and I on my part I made the impossible to overcome the injury. I was essentially much faster than the doctors told me, at my own risk, but the crown overturned them all and was lost a year completely for me. It was something that had been very bitten by me, because there were two things that might have changed my career again, but an injury made me go back again. Okay, in the program is everything. The point is that you live them and you have to be grateful for what you have lived through and have succeeded. I am really happy for all my way, because I consider it a mark on what comes and will follow along the way I have chosen. “

For the year that has marked him in his career: “A year that essentially changed my level and changed my career from then on was my first on Mars in 2013. It was a year that consisted only Greeks and, yet, we had made a core of Greeks who was very beautiful. We managed to make the team back in a final cup final, which for us was a huge affair. I lived the world of Mars in terrible times, which is wishing to live by every athlete, such as in the semifinals with Panionios, where the Pale was more than full. I will say this as a year that marked me significantly for my career. “

For his new role as a staff member of a well -known athlete representation company: “It was something that I had many discussions this year with people who know me and have a prestige in space, whether they are coaches or people abroad. I was essentially taking feedback and working this continuity. When we arrived at all, I was sure that whatever I do I would be able to the company either as a coach or as an agenda. Relationships within this space and among people are the most important thing and at the end of the day it remains. My relationships with George Panos and the rest of the company are excellent, so I wanted to be something that would concern the company and become inside it. I chose to be this path because the part of the coach is something that has various negatives that would no longer express me as a human being. Because I have the part of the representative in my mind the way I explained, I chose this. So I start and, from now on, what is right, what is wrong and to succeed, only God knows it. “

For how much he will help him all his career experiences in this new chapter of his life: “Because I have gone through all levels, it will help me. What I now think and what I have realized in recent years with many younger children, where we have been separated for many years, is that children today need what we call mentoring. A man who will be close to them and show them the way and the way they will make their dreams come true. So as our society now, the rhythms that move all things are crazy. This is how the children’s minds are moving now. What I want to do for my part in this piece, having my whole career as a mark and everything I have lived is to try to show the children the way and the way I did what I am. I am lucky because the year I went to Panionios I had people who actually showed me the way. I have unlimited respect for the space and the game, so I used them and it was really my tools for the coming years until I gained experience and know how to move around. “