Marios Iliopoulos to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew: “AEK will unite us forever”

The speech of the owner of FC AEK and the official dinner in honor of the Archbishop of Athens and all Greece Jerome II. The owner of the FC, Marios Iliopoulos, gave a speech at the official dinner that was presented on Friday evening (22.11.2024) at the restaurant “Byzantine” in OPAP Arena, which completed the historic visit of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew to the stadium and the Museums of the Union Stadium. Marios Iliopoulos expressed his special honour and gratitude for the meeting with the Patriarch highlighting the inspiration he draws from the Values and Authorities that His Holiness promotes. Mr. Iliopoulos pointed out that he had the blessing of Panagiotatos from the year of his enthronement in 1991. This year, which for Christianity is a symbol of blessing and guidance, coincides with the beginning of the professional course of Mr. Heliopoulos, which he highlighted as a spiritual moment with deep meaning. We recall that the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew stood Thursday night in the idea and spirit represented by the AEK, elements to which at every opportunity and in public the administrative leader of the group emphasizes. “You wish your blessing to honor our values and principles,” said Marios Iliopoulos. Both Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and Marios Iliopoulos completed their speeches by exclaiming “hello the AEK”. The speech of the owner of FC AEK: “Your Holiness, Your Grace, Your Eminence Metropolitans, Respectable Fathers, Honorable Mayors, Ladies & Gentlemen, Dear friend and Comrade Dimitris Melissaidis, Your Holiness, your blessing… In and out of this world… Inside and off the border… Your presence today in our football temple of Saint Sophia is a source of inspiration to the mind and soul for the present and future of our entire nation… For Love, Passion, Courage, Our Soul and Inspiration have no borders. My words will be few today… Humility, with great respect… Because I believe that actions must run creatively ahead and words must be as much as is needed to do what we dream and envision for our Basic Principles, our Values, our Religion, our Family, our Country, our Nation… our Environment… Because you’re a shadow. Your Holiness… You will allow me to inform you that since 1991 I have been blessed without you knowing… In 1991 the Universe wanted when you were honored with the highest honor of Christianity to be my beginning the same year in my professional career… I had the great fortune of God and the Universe to have a great Father who left us two years ago… It’s the man and my Symbol who taught me to see and hear with the eyes and ears of the Universe and the Soul… He nurtured me and taught me pride, courage to observe and honor our values, principles and family, taught me what humility means but at the same time what the psychic power of the warrior and the revolutionary is… To love selflessly and honor the simple things that are part of us… Which is in the environment and surrounds us with such harmony and beauty… What nature gives us and needs is our… Our DNA, our five senses… Simple things we can have next to us but ignore them or underestimate them against the great creation of God and the Universe. For all of us of the AEK family the first color of nature we worship is yellow… After all, in autumn the colors of our nature are to the yellow, the color that every year reminds and honors September 1, the day of our global prayer for the protection of creation… Because we have come to Your Holiness as in many other processes and aspects of our lives to be at risk from ourselves… Because we all have to a certain extent Satan in us, our good brain and the bad part of it… What makes the difference is our vision, our Basic Principles and Values that we put before these temptations and make our soul and spirit invincible… Today, with your presence, it is our duty to unite… After all, union is a symbol of our team. Our own immaculate legacy and heritage are our Symbols, Courage, Pride, Our Mental Power, the deep Roots of Asia Minor and Byzantium and our inspiration for Creation after war or difficult times… Our unity… To inspire, unite our souls, our minds, our perception of our supreme good… The best tomorrow of our society and the new generations that come… With solidarity in our society, especially those who need us, with interest in Life, Environment and Creation. We want your Love, your wish, your blessing to be great, to continue to fight and honor our Values and Principles,… To be magnified and glorified by all of us our AEKARA and with it to fight each day with the symbolic Sword of Christianity for the great Victory… Respect for creation, creating and developing the divine gift of nature and the universe. Because here today, in our football temple, Agia Sofia, the pulse of the Heart of AEK, Asia Minor, Byzantium, Christianity and all the Ecumenical… I dream of a new Greece with the legacy of legacy and values left to us by the glorious Ancient Greece… Our country, the land of Light and Culture… Earth’s navel… The country of Olympic flame and Olympic Ideal… May this Olympic flame and God brighten our souls with Selfless Love and with Eu Struggle. AEK will unite us forever… Through the centuries…”