Just before the finale of her big interview Giannis Antetokounbos At Sport24.gr, the conversation went … more family -friendly, with “Greek Freak” talking about Charles Antetokounbos and how much he misses, even telling a story he has never told before.
At the same time, Yiannis Antetokounbos spoke to Sport24.gr For the safety he felt when he was young, going to the catechism, and said that he wanted his children to go to a Greek school, to learn the deliveries and Greek culture.
I want to ask you about CAFF, initially how much you miss dad, how important this institution is to you and what it does.
My father definitely I miss. Not only to me, to the whole family. I certainly know that he sees us from above and is very proud of what we have accomplished and how we are as children and how we watch mom.
It was also the first thing Costas said after Finland, that Dad was here – and I think he did it on his social media a scrap – he would be very proud and would be happier than all of us.
We made an institution in my father’s memory to help people. I am in this position because they helped me, not only me, but also my family, too many institutions in which my mother had been written and was taking fruit, diapers
The Church helped us a lot.
We went after school and always gave us a plate of food before going to workout. Without these people we wouldn’t be here. And I try to do the same, I try to make a place, an environment that can be children and not just children, parents, come to feel safe.
Because I remember when I went to church, the catechism, not only that I was playing and it was an exit from the house and I was not at home when there was no light, no electricity, no water, I went to the catechism and I felt safe.
I learned to play chess, to play table.
He had a very nice basketball firing, I was there and I wasn’t on the streets.
If there wasn’t this and I had grown up in Sepolia, Cologne, Peristeri, Aigaleo, I might do much worse things, because I may be low -key, but I am a kid who would do what was going through my hand to help my family, as well as many people would do the same
Now what would this be? I don’t know, whatever it could be, whatever
So I want to make a place with my family, an environment that will feel comfortable coming there, taking a plate of food, playing.
To learn things, to give back to the world, as much as we can. We have so far done it with the Academy we have made and with many moves we have made in both Greece and abroad.
And it is one thing that I know that my father, our father, because I am not alone, are my brothers, too, would be very proud of what we have done.
Tell me one thing you would do if they become prime minister for a month.
I keep my views on me, but education would be free for everyone, for all children.
Why have anyone better education? That is, I, let’s say, was a very smart kid.
I have to tell you a crazy story. In the Second Gymnasium I had stayed in a lesson in history. I have never told this story.
Monday Gymnasium, I have never stayed in the same class, I had been over on me, sorry to speak like that
My father used to say one thing, “When you leave home you will go to school and after school you will go home before you go to workout, before you go to Triton to play, before you do anything. You will go home, I will see you.”
My father was strict, he had four boys and he had to be like that.
And he did a great job because I am very proud of my brothers and how they are, how they talk, how they behave, how they watch their families, their wives.
I am very proud and very lucky to have these brothers, but that would not have been if my father wasn’t as he was, he did a great job and wish I could do half a job
My father used to say, “I don’t care if you are a good student my boy, you don’t have the absences”.
And I was saying “please dad, don’t worry, I won’t stay”.
Now that I have grown up, I have realized that he just didn’t want to make stools and be on streets, on walks, in bad groups.
Let’s say he didn’t want his children to get involved and it is very difficult for a dad who has come from another country to watch his children in a foreign country, in which he does not understand the language very well.
My father knew if one might not love people like us, foreign immigrants, he didn’t want to succeed in a corner and bother us, to break our feet, he didn’t know much people who could help him
Anyway, I didn’t get many absences. I was going to school, I was a smart kid.
I stayed in the History Monday and I go home and say “dad” … He tells me “what happened”? I say “non -nervous”, he tells me “ok”.
I say “I stayed in a lesson”. He tells me “Didn’t you read?” I say to him “Okay I played a little basketball, I didn’t read much”.
He tells me “and now what, you have to do the order again”? I say “no, I have to give again in September”.
Well, beyond all, I wish my children had a better life than I had. What did I do? Monday Gymnasium, I was 13 years old, 14.
I was going and working with my mother because I was so fearful, I didn’t want to stay, I didn’t want my father to get angry. I was going and working.
I say to her, “Mom, because all the kids go to a tutorial behind school, I want to go there.” I went and talked to myself and tells me a lady that she is 75 euros. Seventy -five euros for me then looked 20,000 euros
And I say, “Can I hold five euros, five or ten euros at a time and after September, go there for a week, do two or three lessons with her to pass the classroom?” Anyway, I did. I went, I passed the classroom, but what did I understand there?
I understood two things. When I put him down and I read and tried, I wrote 19 and I went through. And there I realized that if I had the opportunity that all the kids had and I didn’t work on the street and I could go to a regular school that would help me, I would have a better chance.
Okay, I played basketball.
Many in my neighborhood still send me messages to help them.
And if I were … what if I were prime minister, it doesn’t matter.
I am in this position that I am, I can still do it through the institution we and my family have made, but I would do that.
Everyone has free education and better education so that if they can in Greece they can be very successful or even abroad. There I realized that all the things I have accomplished in my life, I did with a job friend, no one gave me anything.
Even that, I went, I worked it alone and then I got money and went and gave it, 13-14 years old.
Will children go to a Greek school?
Yes, I want this to learn a little now, culture, traditions.