| PAS Giannina it is not only a soccer club, it is not only a team with supporters...PAS is something else. PAS was born in the capital city of Epirus, Ioannina, in the north western part of Greece.In a mountainous area where natural beauty and wildness are combine. Like this, the people from Epirus are in some way a mixture of the previous statement. Although they offered many sacrifices for the creation of the modern Greek state through the time, unfortunately they were forgotten by the central government and sometimes mismanaged by its organs. So Epirus without a serious help in the financial domain, without founds for a real development, without modern routes of transport and communication, nowadays is the poorest part of Greece.For example unemployment in the young people between 20 to 30 years old is approximately 40%, and the European Union by its official statistics declared the region as the most undeveloped one from all the member states. So it is easy to understand that the people of Epirus feel offended and forgotten by the rest of the country, although Epirotians where the only persons which donated their personal fortunes to build up the capital Athens in the previous century, and thousands Epirotians gave their blood for the national liberation wars of Greece the last two hundred years. In these circumstances many people from Epirus was forced by the "ghost" of poverty to immigrate. They left their beloved mountains for the hot valleys of Australia or the frozen cities of Canada. Many of them emigrated internally to the big urban centers of Greece such as Athens, Salonica and other. So it easy to understand that PAS Giannina was, is and it will be the representative of their pride, demnity and honor. It is the team that make them to full all the stadiums around Greece just to sing and cheer for their land and their offended rights. It is the team that, with its exceptional achievements in the "70s of the previous century made all Greece to remember again the existence of Epirus.It is the team that unites the people of the Epirotic diaspora with their land and their customs. PAS is the first team which broke the monopoly of the so-called "big teams" of Athens and Salonica and finished in the high positions of the First soccer Division, previously occupied only by them. PAS is the only team of the Greek province that has always its stadium full of supporters, when the others sell only some hundreds of tickets. This is PAS...something more than a club. |
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