Giorgos Kalafatis
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Giorgos Kalafatis was a Greek football pioneer, player, coach, track and field athlete and the founder of Panathinaikos Athens multi-sports club.
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The Greece national team for the Inter-Allied Games in Paris, 1919. Kalafatis is seated, second from right.
Panathinaikos F.C.
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Panathinaikos Football Club, known as Panathinaikos, or by its full name, and the name of its parent sports club, Panathinaikos A.O. or PAO, is a Greek professional football club based in Athens, Gree
Giorgos Kalafatis
…decided to discontinue its football team, Kalafatis together with 40 other athletes broke away and established in February 1908 the first team of Panathinaikos, named Podosfairikos Omilos Athinon (Football Club of Athens). Kalafatis appointed the Englishman John Cyril Campbell as coach for the new team. It was…
The first team in 1908
The team in 1911, with Giorgos Kalafatis (center, holding the ball) and coach John Cyril Campbell (sitting on the far right).
The team in 1921
The champion team of 1922