[MGSA-L] The passing of legendary soccer player Lefter Küçükandonyadis

[George Baloglou]

Kudos to Dr. Katsetos for having compiled all this information: far
from being of interest to soccer fans only, Lefter(is)' story
illuminates many sides of the difficult relation between Greece and
Turkey; I can already see a book coming out of this, which will
hopefully answer my questions -- like the relation between his move to
AEK and the 1964 events, for example (this question is obvious, but
not quite touched by the articles below).

For soccer funs: I have no doubt Lefter(is) was thrilled by the
remarkable successes of Turkish soccer in the 2002-2008 interval, but
I do not know how he felt when Muslimovic scored PAOK's 'winning' goal
in overtime against Fenerbahse in August 2010 -- I watched that game
in a hotel room in Cappadocia, I do recall, having skipped our group's
visit to a dervish dance! [Speaking of PAOK, I very recently heard the
story of one of PAOK's founding members who returned to Istanbul
around 1930 -- much like Lefter(is) did in 1967, perhaps...]

Dear Christos, your message made me miss the super market's closing
time 11 hours ago -- you owe me a bottle of ayran now :-)

On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Christos D. Katsetos
<cd_katsetos at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Recognizing that history of sport may be of tangential interest in MGSA-L,
> I have decided to pass on the sad news about the passing of legendary
> soccer player Lefter Andonyadis (Λευτέρης Αντωνιάδης) in Istanbul.
>
> Lefter Küçükandonyadis (Λευτέρης Αντωνιάδης) (1925-2012)
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skK9_dSp80c
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9jj1AljtNU
>
> http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/thousands-bid-farewell-to-turkish-football-star.aspx?pageID=238&nID=11484&NewsCatID=362
> http://kathimerini.com.cy/index.php?pageaction=kat&modid=1&artid=73546
>
> From the blogosphere:
> http://gr.ferhatbingol.com/2012/01/13/lefter-kucukandonyadis-λευτέρης-αντωνιάδης-has-died/
> http://fanarion.blogspot.com/2012/01/blog-post_14.html
> http://fanarion.blogspot.com/2012/01/blog-post_15.html
> http://mikrasiatis.gr/?p=7868
> http://liberopoulos.gr/listcats.php?subaction=showfull&id=1197006565&archive=&start_from=&ucat=27&show_cat=27
> http://www.onalert.gr/default.php?pname=Article&catid=2&art_id=11403
>
> =====
> CDK
> 01/17/2012
>
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