Water Dreams – THE NEWS

Two renowned Greek coaches who grew up (S) Olympiacos as they were man as players with the red -white cap and then grew up as coaches in the men’s and women’s hearts respectively.

Voliotis Theodoris Vlachos may not be able to imagine in 1992 when the red -white cap won the first Greek Cup in the club’s history and the championship the same season after 21 years (and his team won the National Championship in the championship!

In the nearly 10 years he played a pole at Olympiacos he won 10 titles (4 championships, 4 cups and 2 Super Cups), but fate brought them to grow up as a coach in his heart team with which he won the bench now 10 championships, 9 championships, The … Polo Real Madrid.

He was blessed as when in 2000 he hung his cap, Olympic President Leonidas Theodorakakis suggested that he stay in the team from another post and take over Dragan Matutinovic’s assistant as he did and the team reached the final of the Champion. In 2002, however, he won the Champions League in Budapest against Honved with Thodoris Vlachos being a collaborator with the excellent Hungarian Hungarian Zoltan Kasas, and later collaborated with Croatian coach Weslin Joo. Of all he got important things in the years he was an assistant coach, Olympiacos won 1 Champions League, 1 Super Cup of Europe, 5 Greek Championships and 5 Greek Cups.

Most importantly, he was nourished next to leading technicians, so when in 2011 in a transitional (and difficult) era of the Amateur to set up the team from scratch, he was a loyal soldier. Since 2013, when the first title came … it has stopped leading the Piraeus to win the Champions League in Genoa in 2018 (at the headquarters of Pro Reco) but also in 10 championships and 9 cups as well as 3 Super Cups. And of course at the terrible record of 163 consecutive wins in the Greek league before Olympiacos lost – in a final by Vouliagmeni.

The President – then – of the JIT, Dimitris Diosopoulos made the MAT move (as the base of the National Team came from Olympiacos) and made him a federal elector at the same time and the distinctions began there with the top silver medal at the Olympics (1).

In essence, Ethniki was playing with incredible homogeneity the systems that had already successfully at Olympiacos and the great results did not take long to come. Just after Tokyo he now only continues in the National.

It also brought the sympathy to our representative complex and stopped the groans and internal disputes, which had culminated shortly before taking over the National.

Vlach led Piraeus to conquering the Champions League in Genoa in 2018. Pavlidis made an explosive blend of experienced and young players. And so …

Mentor of the female pole

« Only in my dreams could I imagine such an end when we started in September and with as many difficulties as we had. »

This ataka belongs to Harry Pavlidis shortly after the winning Euroleague final in Hungary on Dunisvaros. The Reds in their most epic year reach the top of Europe by defeating two Hungarian teams in Budapest and then taking the double in Greece and the European Super Cup!

The Thessaloniki Haris Pavlidis may not have imagined this in his dreams, but he is certainly the man who made Olympiacos’ dreams come true in the female pole by putting him in the top teams in Europe of all time.

Breastfeeding from a young age in the red, the Thessaloniki coach had the best tutorial as a player next to one of the world’s leading techniques we were lucky enough to have in our homeland, the Serbian « General » Nikola Stamenic. Haris Pavlidis, who was considered one of his children and changed him for the better forever, took a lot of him (in 1998-2000).

Having been with a generation of very good players in Olympiacos, including Kyriakos Giannopoulos, Thodoris Vlachos, Makis Voltyrakis, Nikos Venetopoulos, Dimitris Kravaritis, Theodoros Hatzitheodorou, Kostas Louis

He just failed – as a player – to get European with Olympiacos though he played in two finals but he got his personal rematch and above when he became a coach and especially when he essentially re -established the Olympic team coming from Glyfada and brought with them and brought with them Glyfada goalkeeper Aleka Kalogera, who immediately became his right hand as a team manager and continues to this day.

Having a direct relationship with the academies of the club, Theocharis (Haris) Pavlidis succeeds in making always an explosive blend of experienced and young players by taking off the team. During his days from 2007 to January 2022, where he was forced to leave because of the terrible offer he was made from the National China, Olympiacos scans everything: 2 Euroleague, 1 Len Trophy and 2 Len Super Cup, 10 Championships (of which 8 were continued). That is, she has an active participation in 19 of the 30 titles of the female group!

Leaving not only he proposes his replacement (he did not « sit » by the Greeks, but Aleksandar Ciric came) but he is with him the first time to find out the local and Olympiacos as if he is in the automatic pilot back to back with the Serbian technician and the 4/4 technician in Greece.

He considers his team of 2021 as the most complete he ever had in his career as he scanned everything in the most difficult year in the history (and) of water polo, with a coronary, with long holidays, banning double preparations, with no 18 -year -old preparations, and with no 18 -year -old preparations.

Next to Avramidou and Tsoukalas or Eleftheria Pleuritou and in Diamantopoulou Pavlidis « threw » Siouti, Tornarou, Chaldeaiou, Trich, Myriocefalitakis and the result was enjoyable. His players were not just waiting for how and how they were training but they went to the pool almost an hour earlier!

If they could want to play the Euroleague final of the Euroleague 2019 at the powerful Sabadel headquarters with Olympiacos 11-8 with the perfect game five minutes before the final but the referees (as well as some personal errors of the Greek team) brought the match with 13th.

Like 2017 in Kirisi in a similar final against the home side Kinev where the lights were extinguished in the critical counterattack of Olympiacos for the equalizer!

In 2000 he hung his cap, then president of Olympic Leonidas Theodorakakis suggested that he stay in the team from another post and take over Dragan Matutinovic’s assistant. A second great card had just begun

Put the bar where others do not arrive

Essentially during the time, Harry Pavlidis and the Presidency Michalis Kountouris, especially after 2010, the mentality for the best of all the players in the team and all those who came. The bar was very high from training.

Along with Olympiacos he had made … priests and in Canada, reaching him to the world of the World Championship but their philosophy was different and they did not continue.

And of course his famous defense was copied by all teams. It is a defense that isolates the futurist from getting the ball, falling weight in the face of not getting the ball to get the ball, thus releasing her defender and goes a little further as a second goalkeeper.

He is now training our national team.