The Athletic Director of the CAE OlympicChristos Bafa, spoke to “Sport FM” and made a report this year’s Piraeus season, 24 hours after winning the championship.
Christos Bafafi talked about the brothers Angelopoulos and George Bardzokas, while explaining why he “closed” his social media, talking about the incredible toxicity he was on his social media, after the defeat of Olympiacos by Monaco in Monaco.
What Christos Buffa said to “Sport Fm”:
-A very full season full of emotions ended in the best possible way … Was this championship in the 100th anniversary of the club a great reward for the hard work of this team?
“And it was not 100 years, it was a great reward for the huge effort this year. If we do a retrospective what has happened during this time, it has too many things. The beginning of the year looks so far and so close, this is the absurd. This means that in our minds everything is still very confused, the pictures have not entered a class, so most of us yesterday in our chef came out more fatigue, you saw tired faces. Now we are trying to recover, to calm down. “
-Are you in the team for more than 22-23 years, based on the conditions that had been created after the Final Four, the toxicity, the dynamics of the opponent, but also the serious racing problems that arose with Williams-Gos, Fal and Vezenkov, do you think it was the most difficult championship in the team?
“Yes, undoubtedly, it’s all you say. The value of the winner is increased by the value of the loser, we have a great team, he was a European champion up to the Final-4, with the MVP of the competition, with great players, a very difficult opponent. All this frustration created in our team after the Final-4, and you were experiencing it everywhere, you saw it, was a sadness. There was also toxicity, unfortunately we live in strange times, you dare not talk anymore because someone will find anonymous to criticize you. Using dirty things I don’t think it’s right. “
-I will not ask you what has changed because I think that with the exception of the Final Four semifinals, all basketball Europe has recognized the unique and beautiful way of playing Olympiacos this year and its potential. Spiritually as an organization, how did you manage to … turn the chip?
“It was very important what the presidents did with their speech after the first final. The summary of this speech, because a lot has been said to the players, the presidents are always behind the cameras, they do not want to look, they are the most ill fans of Olympiacos and no one can question this. They said the simplest, we did not ask for responsibility for anyone who lost the semifinals, we were by your side, stop mourning, that it was over, let’s get the championship. It was the bell that sounded in everyone’s ears and changed the chip. Their presence played a very important role. “
-One of the reasons you did, do you think it was the fact that you ignored social media and what was toxic outside the parquet and the racing section faithfully dealt with basketball? Because racing the superiority of three of the four finals was clear.
“The doors were closed in the SEF and his players left out of it, they didn’t know much, of course they read them but there were no discussions. After the second final of the postponement, what was said is that we do our job until they tell us to play again. There was a lot of calm in the team. Conditions are created each time. This year the big roster has helped us to have a relaxing mind and relaxing legs. Everyone is entitled to and want to play, they have to understand their role, this brings friction, moaning, tensions, but the captain did properly manage the situations. There was no panic, authoritarianism but the right deal of things and in the end all this policy was justified. “
-I want to do a personal bracket here, even though you don’t need it and your job has been talking for so many years on its own. After the semifinals you decided to close your personal accounts on social media. You would like to mention this, because many people do not know the behaviors and pressure you are facing…
“It will seem to be crying and it is not easy to say, it is a conscious decision and I will not change it. I began to be influenced by toxicity in social, I changed as a character. No one can tell me that I have caused him 23 years. I don’t give anyone the right to an opponent or friend to quotes to play with my family. In the social ones some presented me as a pedophile, some were cursing my children because we lost to Monaco. I do not allow anyone to touch my family. They have taken the path of justice and I will not stop anywhere until they pay for it. “
– We saw strong pictures yesterday at the awards. I have stood at the entrance of Papanikolaou with the jersey of the great unfortunate, Mustafa Fal and the presence of the children of the presidents on the podium.
“Kostas Papanikolaou took a video call to Fal, everyone talked to him and was in Spain, he will be operated on tomorrow. He left for Spain yesterday, he said that I do not want to come to the court, because I do not want to create dramas and leave the children, I want to win the championship. Some are mocking them, but we will continue to safeguard them. “
-I don’t want a few hours after a triumph for the team to return to what happened during the final, but as a basketball man, do you feel that something can change, at least according to what was said in the minister’s office?
“Everything can change, as long as there is a will. Where they became finals without nets, five years ago we wouldn’t imagine that. Until two years ago, objects were falling everywhere. Everyone to do what they do, those who go to the court have to have fun is a game or football. “
-You have won 9 of the 11 titles the team has claimed from their return to the Basket League. At the same time there are four consecutive appearances in the Final 4. Certainly the fact that a European has not come to the whole organization, but do you not think all this effort is much more stringent than it really deserves?
“Criticism is good to exist, this is the job of the world but there are some red lines that should not be overcome. You need to know all the facts and those who criticize them do not know it. Unfortunately, journalists also know 10, not everyone knows what is going on in a family. Can’t this toxicity that we don’t stop and have no boundaries, why is all this going on for a gypsy trophy? Is it all worth it? Why have such evil among us. What does the other one win the other to create such situations, so hate what? “
-In your recent interview, he had described George Bardzokas as a top coach in Olympiacos’ history and how the job with him is enjoyable. I think that any clouds for his future were permanently dissolved in the finals. The stadium that supports a relentless … had long been taking a position for the coach …
“Agree. Even for what I said, some people mocked my opinion. He is the man with the most titles in the history of Olympic, with most wins in Greece and Europe, he has all the titles as a coach of Olympiacos, he has been voted so much better coach. That is what I believe, you have to criticize me for that too. Because everything one says there must be irony and ridicule. George Bartzokas was not likely to leave if he has a contract. When it is over, he will sit with the presidents, what he wants, where his team is … from tomorrow we will start building the 2025/26 season. “
-Chapter Nikola Milutinov. Is the first issue that the team will deal with in the new season? He is free, he has suggestions, he played great in the finals, and said that if the finale was exactly what he had imagined.
“It’s one of the first issues and not only. Everything will be done, we will sit on the table, the players’ representatives knew that this year the discussions will be at the end of the season and we will do that. “
-Yesterday’s extensive reference was made yesterday in the case of the chef. Is it a matter that has been delayed quite a bit, but we can now say that it is in the final line?
“I think we are on the right track, I believe in the coming days we will have news and developments. Everything will be done and there will be justice and Olympiacos will begin a new era for Olympiacos. It is very important that a team has its stadium and to do things for its world because it is above all its world. What is offered to the world must be worthy of love and support, the love and support that the followers show us. “
-Let’s stand for a little bit of McKisik. He is the longest -serving American in the team, and in my opinion the foreign player who advocates to the greatest extent that Olympiacos is advocating.
“Sakil is Greek. He knows well what these matches mean, Greek reality, how to play such games. He really knows what’s going on in the country, he likes Greece, I don’t know if he’ll stay here, we can see him permanently when he finishes his career. It’s not a stranger who came and doesn’t know what’s going on. Lee, for example, does not know what Olympiacos-Panathinaikos is, but it is reasonable because it’s a few months here. Sakil is a guy who has grown up difficult and when they come, Sakil comes forward. “
-Yesterday’s extensive reference was made yesterday in the case of the chef. Is it a matter that has been delayed quite a bit, but we can now say that it is in the final line?
“I think we are on the right track, I believe in the coming days we will have news and developments. Everything will be done and there will be justice and a new era will begin for Olympiacos. It is very important that a team has its stadium and to do things for its world because it is above all its world. What is offered to the world must be worthy of love and support, the love and support that the followers show us. “
-I want to do a personal bracket here, even though you don’t need it and your job has been talking for so many years on its own. After the semifinals you decided to close your personal accounts on social media. You would like to mention this, because many people do not know the behaviors and pressure you are facing…
“It will seem to be crying and it is not easy to say, it is a conscious decision and I will not change it. I began to be influenced by toxicity in social, I changed as a character. No one can tell me that I have caused him 23 years. I don’t give anyone the right to an opponent or friend to quotes to play with my family. In the social ones some presented me as a pedophile, some were cursing my children because we lost to Monaco. I do not allow anyone to touch my family. They have taken the path of justice and I will not stop anywhere until they pay for it »