Larissa announced Takiano!

And officially Fotis Takianos took over as the new coach of Larissa!

The Thessalian OEM announced the hiring of the 52-year-old coach, who replaces Nikos Papanikolopoulos.

In his first statements, Takianos stated that his main concern is to change the psychology of his team.

Detailed what he said in his first statements:

– Coaches, you initially welcomed our family. How does our city look to you, have you ever been to Larissa again? “Thank you very much, I am very happy to be here. I have come to Larissa several times, most of them as an opponent, and this is the first time I have come to support the team and the city. It is a new challenge for me, it is a given that the unknown exists as it is the first time I am at the helm of Larissa but there is a mood to succeed ”

– Coach I will go straight to the grill. Larissa is facing a difficult situation with five consecutive defeats. What does the team need right now to recover? “It is a given that the team is in a difficult situation but here I would like to put the following parameters. Initially we are still at the beginning of the championship, there were various misfortunes I would characterize in the team which failed to present what it could. Despite all these results did not come and what is needed at the moment is the team to change its psychology. You understand that after consecutive defeats, self-confidence, confidence may be shaken, and we should support the players because basketball is a sport you play when you are well psychologically. We have to help the players, we have to help the team recover psychologically. The second thing we need to do is clearly improve the team’s competitive profile, play better, become tougher on defense, at least that is my philosophy. The help I can give to the team is to become tough both in the home and away games so that we are a very difficult opponent “.

– We saw Nondas Papantoniou make his debut on Sunday and enter the rotation, Devende Green was on the mission but was not used. Do you think there are two players who will make a difference? Is there a possible rearrangement of the roster in the back of your mind? “Look, the first thing I’m doing right now, and you know for sure that I’re only here one day, is to evaluate the existing material. I came here to build which means that first there will be an evaluation, we will see which children can help us achieve our goal and clearly if I see that changes need to be made or that the team needs to be strengthened in some way, I have already talked to the administration and I got the green light to do it. But first I will repeat a strict evaluation of the existing material so that neither the team in priority nor the players are wronged “.

– Coaches we know the needs of the class and your limited time so I will ask you one last question. The match with PAOK is coming on Sunday, next week empty and then Olympiakos and Panathinaikos. Quite a difficult and demanding program. Do you want to comment on it? What does Larissa need to get the victory inside PAOK? “These three games we have to play are one of the most difficult in the league and we must neither hide nor create illusions. Look, having a day in Larissa, I will look at the game against PAOK first, to see what we can do better. Of course we will claim the victory but as you understand we are not the favorite in this match we are the underdog and as I said before the defense will have priority. We will be a team that will have a different psychology and the fact that we are an outsider in this game motivates us to claim victory with the team of PAOK. For the other two games that you clearly mentioned, the difference between us is big, but we will be able to discuss before these games because there is a big gap and our team will be much better and I will have more things to tell you “.

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