Giorgos Kalafatis
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 17 March 1890 | ||
| Place of birth | Athens, Greece | ||
| Date of death | 19 February 1964 (aged 73) | ||
| Place of death | Athens, Greece | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1905–1906 | Ethnikos G.S. | ||
| 1906–1907 | Panellinios G.S. | ||
| 1908–1923 | Panathinaikos | ||
| National team | |||
| 1919–1920 | Greece | 1 | (0) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1914–1916 | Panathinaikos | ||
| 1917–1923 | Panathinaikos | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Giorgos Kalafatis (in Greek: Γιώργος Καλαφάτης, 17 March 1890 - 19 February 1964) was a Greek football pioneer, player, coach, track and field athlete and the founder of Panathinaikos football club.
Being a big athletic talent, he distinguished himself in track and field sports. But football was his big passion. He played for Ethnikos G.S. Athens and when his later club Panellinios 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) at the time. Kalafatis appointed the Englishman John Cyril Campbell as coach for the new team. It was the first time that a foreigner was appointed as the coach of a Greek team.
Apart from Giorgos Kalafatis, other establishing members of POA were: his brother Alexandros, who was the first president, Emmanouel Chrysis, Dimitris Doukakis, Periklis Mpoumpoulis, Granitsas, Mantzakos, Papageorgiou, Gaetas, Demertzis, Stavropoulos, Paschos, Misakian, Reppas, Sapounias and Garoufalias.
In 1919, he was a member of the Greek national team that participated in the Inter-Allied Games in Paris. In Paris, Kalafatis collected information also about basketball and volleyball (sports unknown then in Greece) and after his return to Athens, started his efforts on creating new teams with Panathinaikos. He was also a player/manager for Greece in the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp.
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