Years of innocence ·Τα Χρόνια της Αθωότητας
“Years of innocence” signifies the return to the sports memories that have been the balm of the souls of our grandparents, our fathers and those younger people who have heard the narratives or studied the photographs of the great idols of older times. We return to the age of football, when figures of the sport emerged from a completely different setting compared to that of recent years. In this day and age, now that the era of “prosperity” has lapsed into decline, looking at those figures who excelled in conditions of extreme poverty, hunger, terror and the weight of History, offers the most exciting model for today's young people. Through football, we focus on a Greece, true but not ideal, that inspired us, that was lost and which we wish to restore in order to inspire us again, in the midst of such a gloomy juncture.
- Created By
Ilias Giannakakis
- First Aired on
Feb 21, 2022
- Popularity: 1.6557
- 0 votes
- Networks
- (GR)
(GR)
- Production
EPT (GR)White Wolf Production
- Status: Ended
Show Ended
1 seaons till Apr 11, 2022
Last episode: Episode 8
Seasons & episodes
Total 1 seasons, 8 episodes
Season 1
Aired
Episode 1Episode 158 min
The story of Greek football, mainly in the 1920s, when the Hellenic Football Federation establishes the National Team, the Championship and the Cup. Up to 1959, Greek football is at an amateur level, played on dry fields, where players and fans on crowded platforms experience the same degree of poverty. Great historical events define our country at the time, such as the 1922 refugees, the "Ohi day" in 1940, the occupation, the civil war and the exiles.
Episode 2Episode 257 min
Panionios, Apollon Smyrnis and Ethnikos Piraeus were, throughout the twentieth century, the unsung backbone heroes of Greek football. They were powerful teams, who supplied the grand teams with great players and were always the regulators of the title. Always on the backseat of the then powerful POK’s (Central Football Club) system, with fewer but devoted fans, dedicated to fair and honest play; they gradually left the scene, as did their era.
Episode 3Episode 357 min
Panathinaikos, that made it to the European Champions Cup final in 1971, at Wembley Stadium, is the top Greek team of all time. That team was created by a schism and the restoration that followed it. Ferenc Puskas was the visionary of the team at the bench and its big stars were “General” Mimis Domazos and “Gunner” Antonis Antoniadis. The spirit of that team remains unchanged even today, fifty years later, when they gather together again at the Stadium of Alexandras Avenue.
Episode 4Episode 458 min
PAOK’s team in the seventies made history as the most spectacular team of all time in Greek football. When Koudas returned, after Olympiakos tried to sign him, something that PAOK's administrative leader, the famous Giorgos Pantelakis, staunchly opposed, PAOK shot to prominence, played mythical football, but only won one championship and two cups. The club was certainly persecuted by the football status quo, but it also did itself an injustice.
Episode 5Episode 556 min
The short term of Goulandris in Olympiakos, from 1971 to 1975, was the only case where Greek football became a dream come true. A dream that ended abruptly, when Nikos Goulandris suddenly left, leaving, however, a legacy of football bliss behind him.
