Baphes: “Will Fournier tell you I want to come and say no? “

The Sports Director of the CDE, Christos Baffes, spoke about the big evening (06/09) dedicated to George Printezis at the SEF, but also about his transfer. Christos Baffes was “hosted” in the “Direct Ripley” show of the OK WebRadio and referred to the big evening that Olympiacos BC is preparing to George Printezis, but also to the summer’s transcription bam that listens to the name Evan Fournier. In detail what he said : For the great evening dedicated to George Printezis : “Let’s go for the second… Oscar. I think it will be a celebration worthy of both George Printezis’ offer and history to Olympiacos. Remarkable for last year’s celebration for Vassilis Spanoulis. For us these specific evenings, and last year’s and this year’s, are as important as the conquests of titles. We believe that we should and should honour the history of the group. These two have contributed the most to “writing” the most golden pages in Olympiacos history. It is important that it is the first game of the season this Friday, a season that is special on its own, because it complements Olympiacos’ 10 years. Olympiacos is the largest multi-sport club in Europe, I don’t think anyone can question that. It is the team with most sports and European titles in most of them. And Vassilis Spanoulis and Giorgos Printezis are not just the “significances” of the basketball Olympiacos club, but two “significances” of the Olympiacos club in all sports and will remain forever in the memory of our fans. I think the evening will be very touching. It’s the least that can be done for George. That we will live a unique night in the full-blown SEF”. For George Printezis : “The course of George and on and off the courts is an example that all young athletes, all young children in all sports, must follow. Greek sport needs more… Preteens. George is an example and it is not accidental that he is dear to all Greek fans.” For the best moment of Printezis in Olympiacos : “The popsari in Constantinople. It’s the picture of our lives and it’ll never change that. It’s Spanoulis’ pass, the comeback, against a team that if we play 20 times at 19 we lose, it’s the whole thing. This phase was and will remain forever in history. It was her and Spanoulis’ three-pointer in OAKA. These two phases will always accompany the basketball Olympiacos, but also Olympiacos in general.” On whether the Olympiacos organization is reflected in the face of Printezis : “George is a humble child, smiling. He is a man who has tried hard to succeed and Olympiacos as a club makes it. It expresses the effort, the “fight”, the toil, the everyday life. They are a group of the people, the port, so it was created, so the base of the group entered. George is the expressionist of this philosophy, because he tried too hard, he felt rejected many times, but he did not give up and he succeeded.” About whether Printezis wanted to end his career with a European title: “Obviously, but closed by raising the league, which was important in the return of Olympiacos to A1 with what had happened. Maybe, though, the title would be like watching a Hollywood movie. What happened in Belgrade with Olympiacos playing in the small final while 13-14 thousand Olympiacos had been eliminated from singing to say “good-bye” to George, I think this would be a dream curtain in the career of every athlete, this applause. George was an artist on the floor, an artist and I think that was the ideal conclusion to this huge career.” For the red seats in the SEF : “They will enter the half platforms. Slowly we’ll put them on half the platforms. All this is done at Olympiacos expenses without Olympiacos having anything from the SEF. Just by respecting our fans we try and we will continue to do as much as we are allowed and in cooperation with the SEF administration. From our presidents’ pocket. On a field that is not Olympic, it does not belong to Olympiacos, money is spent only because the Olympiacos world deserves the best and we try to create the best possible conditions. There will be other things, many things. Every year things happen in the SEF and we believe that if there were not Olympiacos and our private initiative to become things in the SEF, it would be tragic.” For the transfer Evan Fournier and if they kept the best for the end : “There is never an end to a team like Olympiacos. You can never say “end”. So a player will show up to tell you “I want to come” and it will be the ideal conditions and he will say “No, why are we done”? In these teams in professional sports there is no end. The conditions were created, there was patience, there were right moves, they were done as we should, and together we celebrated a great transfer, one of the greatest this summer in Europe. The presidents have shown all these years that when it’s for the good of the team they don’t hesitate to do what they have to, They showed it last year, they showed it this year and they show it every summer. This is the great fortune of Olympiacos, those two who are on the team’s “timony”, Panayiotis and George Angelopoulos. For decades they have been spending time with their families, businesses and money on a “bottomless well” for their great love, Olympiacos”.