European basketball mourns for Pavlos Giannakopoulos

2018-06-13T19:00:24+00:00 2018-06-13T19:19:12+00:00.

Aris Barkas

13/Jun/18 19:00

Eurohoops.net
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Every member of Panathinaikos family and major figures of European basketball were present in Athens for the funeral of Pavlos Giannakopoulos.

By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net

Numerous fans of Panathinaikos and many prominent figures of European basketball and also of Greek politics were present today in Pavlos Giannakopoulos‘ funeral.

EuroLeague CEO Jordi Bertomeu, Zeljko Obradovic who traveled to Athens despite Game 5 of the Turkish BSL finals, Dimitris Itoudis, Dimitris Diamantidis, Dejan Bodiroga, Stojan Vrankovic, Doron Jamchi representing Maccabi FOX Tel Aviv, Panagiotis Fasoulas, Panagiotis Giannakis, Argiris Pedoulakis and more stood on the side of Giannakopoulos family on their time of great sorrow.

Numerous fans of Panathinaikos followed the casket of Pavlos Giannakopoulos from the Metropolitan Cathedral of Athens on the way to the 1st cemetery of the city. The president of Greece, Prokopis Pavlopoulos, was also present at the funeral as also the owner of Olympiacos FC Vaggelis Marinakis.

Vasilis Spanoulis and the Aggelopoulos brothers, owners of Olympiacos BC, sent their condolences.

The whole Panathinaikos team attended the funeral, while Dimitris Giannakopoulos and Thanasis Giannakopoulos, the bother of Pavlos, couldn’t contain their tears.






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