At the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens, an unofficial football event was held on 12 April between two representative teams of Greece and Denmark at the Podilatodromio. The International Olympic Committ
The "Podilatodromio" in Athens, venue for the tournament, as seen in 1896
Pavlos Kountouriotis
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Pavlos Kountouriotis was a Greek admiral who served during the Balkan Wars, was regent of Greece, and the first president of the Second Hellenic Republic. In total he served four times as head of the
Football at the 1896 Summer Olympics
…15:40 Podilatikos Syllogos Athinon 0–9 or 0–15 Denmark XI Report Podilatodromio, Athens, Greece Attendance: 6,000 Referee: Prince George (Greece) GK Pavlos Kountouriotis DF Kavalieratos Anninos DF Konstantinos Zervoudakis MF Demetrios Petrokokkinos MF Georgios Karamanos MF Stavros Antoniadis FW Spyridon Angonakis FW P…
Kountouriotis c. 1915
Kountouriotis and crew on the deck of Georgios Averof, 1912
The signal sent by Admiral Kountouriotis from the cruiser Georgios Averof to the fleet, at the start of the Battle of Elli.-- Translated it reads: "By the power of God and with the wishes of the King and in the name of Justice, I sail with unstoppable force and with confidence about victory against the enemy of the race."
Kountouriotis in 1924 is sworn in as the first President of the Second Hellenic Republic