Giorgos Tsakiris writes about the AEK stadium that opened its doors today, the facts that changed, and the assured future of…
Who would have told us that we would have believed it years ago, and even if water had entered the gutter thanks to Dimitris Melissanidis, that the moment of completing one year of AEK ‘s new stadium, in its ancestral lands, would arrive, in Philadelphia the places, where “I first met you and the whole earth knows it”! It may now be the given, the self-evident, to go to our stadium, to the most beautiful one in this country again, but at least I still can’t get enough of living it and seeing it… Every day I’m there, let’s not if anyone thinks I’m excessive, five out of seven days a week. Turn it around – around and over!
A year of our new stadium which of course was combined with the absolute dominance of AEK in Greek football with the conquest of both domestic titles! He reminded everyone of the dynamics of Two-Headed when he has his own …home, his own …nest, of course in the city of AEK, in New Philadelphia, otherwise nothing would be the same as before… He came and clicked the creation of a powerful team and even more the hiring for its bench, the best coach in our country, Matias Almeida, who is what we say: he came and connected with the history, DNA, and culture of the Union. ..
What we’ve been dreaming of for two decades has happened. The old ones remembered and are living the dream again. The young people learned and understood the importance of the stories they heard from their elders, they confirmed the reality of AEK ‘s power in its neighborhood… “In New Philadelphia, we found Spring again my soul, to those destined for adventure you are the sun throughout my route”, say the lyrics of the song, performed by Kostas Makedonas in lyrics by our brother Terzakis, the voice of the group all these years, for the infinitesimal who don’t know it and that’s exactly what happened! Where we have the word Spring, change it with AEK, and where the word sun also with our three favorite letters!
One year and don’t forget: it’s just the beginning!
It’s no longer a dream, it’s reality and it’s really one of those cases, the very few, where the event succeeds and surpasses the vision, the expectations, the fantasies… So much we wanted it, so much we expected it, so much that We have dreamed and imagined, I thought that after 20 years it would not be able to live up to what we all expected. And yet Dimitris Melissanidis, president of the now presidents of AEK (the works, the titles, the successes), managed with his creation to make us experience the unique, the incredible, the one we had not even imagined. For that from now on and FOREVER, we will all be grateful!
They fought it with such fury, that they forced us into an unprecedented new competition, this time a refugee for two decades, until the end and just before the opening, our opponents tried to do something so that there would not be a license to operate, they put their media and the journalistic” pistols to write and say points and monsters. They still do it despite the fact that the most beautiful, modern, and unique stadium in the country got ALL approvals from UEFA and of course was chosen to host the Conference final there. They were exposed, they were ridiculed and they didn’t think about it… It makes sense since from the first season of its operation everyone consolidated the power that it brought to AEK in the present but above all in tomorrow and forever…
The only wish for all AEK students to be strong, lucky (because we have written again strong and healthy, they were also on the Titanic, they were not lucky), to live it with all their being. History has no end, only a beginning, here in Philadelphia the parts are all rewriting it TOGETHER and you saw what it has caused to the main rivals and contenders… Father, yes, the stadium is done and unfortunately, we didn’t even get to go for a walk there altogether. But we were all at the fiesta, you were also with (and through) your grandson, next to your beloved Rena, close to your sons. You celebrated the return of AEK to its city and to the top (and absolute dominance) of Greek football.
