Olympiacos « won » the Conference League on the night of March 13th at Novi Sad’s « Prezident Hotel » …
May 30 2024. Time 00:25. Santiago is crossing from the left. Ayub El Kabi makes a move in the Fiorentina area. Dives into the ball. Head. The ball in the nets. Time stops. Moroccan currently described as an unprecedented « IVF ». He gave the characterization that everyone was trying to find. Everyone came out for a while. And they lived something that had difficulty believing that it was true. The Olympic champion of Europe. Conqueror of a European trophy. Of the first for Greece, at the collective level of men.
‘Tomorrow we will pass’
Have you read and heard everything about 29or May. The… second birthday of Olympiacos. The images, after all, are so shocking, shocking and moving that words are powerless and poor to describe them. That’s why I chose as someone who has been following Olympiacos for almost 20 years, everywhere, in every corner of the earth, not to deal with what happened that night. But with what happened on the night of 13o March, in Novi Sant, Serbia.
On the eve of the race with Maccabi Tel Aviv, at Batska Topola’s headquarters. The Medilibar and Santiago ESA press conference is scheduled to take place at the PREZIDENT hotel of the small Serbian city, due to the long distance from Batska Topola. Olympiacos traveled in the afternoon, arrived in Novi Sad at night. And the press conference was organized almost at 20:00 in the evening.
As soon as the people of Olympiacos and the journalists we followed the mission in his 1-4 repeat, the scene was … surreal. Maccabi’s mission was left at the same hotel. But you couldn’t see that. As the image of the Israelis was provocative. And … extremely relaxed.
Group agents ride without the team’s clothing missions. Members of the Robbie Kin technical staff drank beers at the hotel bar. Footballers, with political ambiguity, no Maccabi’s clothes, had fun at the restaurant, consuming beers. An image that did not change, there was no smallest mobilization, even when Jose Luis Mendilibar appeared on the site, with the EU, the members of the Olympic mission and the journalists.
Since the moment he entered the hotel, Mandy had a different expression than we are used to. He was looking at everything. You see, Olympiacos had overthrew the same hotel a few months earlier, before playing with Batska Topola for the Europa League. So he knew the spaces. He knew where to look. And what to see. And when the press conference was over and began walking towards the hotel’s exit, he stopped, returned to the people of Olympiacos and said absolutely sure: « Tomorrow we will qualify. » Marina Tsalis spoke to Olympiacos’ amazing documentary about Penty’s faith in qualification. But the story behind her revelation had a lot of … beer and a bun. By the Israelis.
For his part, Santiago EU could not believe what he saw. The style. The pride. « We don’t see you », which was so obvious in the atmosphere of the space, even enraging unintentional observers. All of this became known to the whole. The players learned all the details. For everything. And this was not the first time they felt offended.
THE DESCRIPTION OF Andre Orta …
Andre Orta’s words were to compose what followed. Portugal’s description of the extreme irritation of himself and his teammates for what happened in the defeat in Faliro, as well as the events of the PREZIDENT Hotel. The… warning to Robbie Mob. But what followed. His words, a few minutes after the legendary 1-6: « I didn’t know what the game would be like, of course. But one thing I had for sure. That we would fight for the game and the result. And I can tell you a story about it. In the first game against Maccabi, after the end, when I went to talk to reporters, I went through the Maccabi locker room. They sang and danced. Obviously they were happy with 4-1. But I said to Robbie Moby, « Tell your players that it’s not over. That was just the first game. » And he replied, « Yes, yes, I know. » But I’m not sure he really knew it. When we show this behavior in the game and they get on the pitch … Relaxed, we had to make them pay for it. And that’s what we did. «
THE DEPARTMENT PRESIDENT AND THE LONG TRAVEL
How … festive and … festive was the climate in Maccabi’s ranks, it was evident from the fact that its deep Canadian owner, Mitch Goldhar, who had not seen her (and) game for two years because of Covid, had chosen to travel to her team. In fact, he had fun his presence in the space, taking pictures with Christian Carbet and making statements (before the game) for his team.
But Olympiacos and Mendilibar (who had a few 24 hours earlier heard Vangelis Marinakis renewing his contract after … 4 in Faliro), gave a strong lesson to Maccabi. Opening the door of the European trophy. Because that night of 14o March, Conference was « conquered ». It was the night that Olympiacos realized, that he could. It was the night that Olympiacos felt invincible. And keep this momentum in faith until the first hours of… May 30!
