THE Marios Iliopoulos visited the Museum club on Sunday (09.11.2025). AEK – “IRAKLIO EAGLES” in Heraklion. before the match with OFI. The owner of the “yellow and black” PAE had the opportunity to share with the friends of the Union his thoughts on the competitive course and the future of the team.
We should mention that a delegation of the AEK Heraklion Fans’ Association welcomed Marios Iliopoulos earlier at the “Nikos Kazantzakis” airport with Cretan dishes and a treat of raki, as well as … mantinada exclusively for the strong man of AEK.
“Three or four times a year – because unfortunately with all that goes on every day I don’t have many possibilities for many visits – but three or four times a year I also visit mainly for work and because it inspires me to be in Heraklion.
May today be a day of positivity, a day when AEK will highlight what it can do. We still have a bit, we are in the process of organizing and what we all have to do is, apart from loving the team – because obviously you have the love to support, to be here today – to have patience and perseverance. Because no teams are built within 3 months.
Of course, this year, after the end of last season, we managed to enter a new process. The team has tuned up and we are in the process of seeing much better things. We came up short in two or three matches that we all know what they are, needless to say, but I am not always optimistic by nature, but I am really optimistic, because AEKara is not only a great team and a historic club, and it is not selfish to say that it is the most historic club with the longest history.
So I am not only an optimist by nature, but things are optimistic and we will always have this team as a gladiator, we will have them hitting high and setting the bar high. Well, we don’t talk big, but we are here, each one from his own side, to support.
And let’s not be short-sighted. Let’s look a little further. Besides, in the races that I do and run in motorsport, anyone who sees too close can’t be a champion. A champion is the one who sees the horizon and doesn’t see the first 50 meters, but sees the next 300 meters. Thank you very much” he said in his speech at the Association.