Yiannis Fetfatzidis returns to the Greek league in the next few days with Ari's shirt and some of his comments – and about the “Yellows” – were unforgettable in his recent interview with Gazzetta.
Not the classic interview he gave a few days ago Cashier Talatarioff And magazine Yiannis Fetfatzidis. He opened the book of his life about his first steps, all the teams he passed through, his transfers, his “cursed” last-minute chance against AEK – Olympiacos in OAKA, and of course other things. No He returns to it. 2018-2020 is a two-year period for that.
About his transfer, about Olympiakos telling him on the last day of the transfer that “you will be on loan from Aris”, about his own demand to be free, about his teammates, Theodoros Karibidis, Michael Enning and Savvas Pantelidis. Let's remember this part of the interview as Ari gets his transfer from APOEL…
-Olympiakos had Galetti as a winger after Djordjevic, but it hasn't had Jol's duration over the years. Have you thought to yourself that you want to be the next “leader”?
“Yes maybe…of course I dreamed. That's why I left not fully satisfied.
-Have you done your self-criticism?
“Yes, I do it all the time, it's not one person's fault. You can't blame one person alone.
– If you could go back in time, what would Giannis look like?
“I want to be the player you saw with Aris when I was 20. Do you understand; To be more ready, to be more mature. Don't be afraid. But if you manage and gain that maturity in your 20s, you're babe. These players, top 20-year-olds, are something else. If I play like I did at Aries at 20, I'll be a player who can go to Leverkusen and not move from eleven. This is a good question to answer you I want to be more mentally prepared. To be able to say, “Whatever my @αρχιδι@ says or asks, I will be.” But I couldn't do it my friend. I don't have the same personality and the same profession. I was already playing Serie A and went to Ariz. I was confident and could say, “I'll be the best player here.” I went to Al Ahly. Very good position, difficult position and I was essential and irreplaceable. On Mars, I can say that. I played in the Champions League, I went to the World Cup. Aris has pressure but not as much as Olympiakos. I was in better control on Mars because I was better mentally. I had good technique and was saying, “Who's going to take the ball to me and why?” At Olympiakos there were phases when I lost the ball and it wasn't allowed. It was not because I lacked technique, but because of nervousness.
Read the full interview with YIANNI FETFAZIDIS here
– So you've returned to Olympiakos. Everything happened as we said you go to mars…
“I didn't like that Olympiakos asked me this even on the last day of the transfer. They didn't warn me, Martins told me: “It's weird, but you're with us, I like you.” My mind was there. On the last day of the transfer they said I'd go on loan to Aris. I'm mad! “For me, a kid from the academy, because I missed this opportunity with AEK? I'm not random, I'm not irrelevant. Don't count me as a major player, but let me be there. Why should? Especially on the last day of the transfer?” . I wouldn't go on loan, so I canceled the contract and was free. They told me about 2-3 other teams from Olympiakos. I think Nottingham was there too, and I said “no”. My move to Mars was really last minute. CONCLUSION I also spoke with Carybides who showed me how much he liked me.
The Aris team was very good then, they were good, they had Matteo, Bruno Gama, Thigini… So it's a bit difficult for me in the first period as well. I said to myself: “Should I not play at all?”. With Pantelidis during the semester and Ening. My contract was until the summer. Pantelidis took me in the summer and asked me to be in the team, and at the same time I got a call from Maccabi Haifa, and we see how strong it is. Very good position, Champions League, but in the end I prefer Aris.
“I've seen 100s of extremes in videos and nobody's better than you,” Pantelitis told me. I asked him “Are you telling me now?” I wanted to say that. But I didn't tell him. We talked a bit and I told him and he told me. I decided to go back to Mars and it had the development I was hoping for.
I stayed in Arizona and then loved it. If you are good, people love you. It's hard to be loved when you're not playing. If you're not good enough, the world can give you a chance, give you time. Not always, but when times are tough you need support. You want support from coaches, management. So second year at Auris is going well, I'm 2nd MVP behind Levi Garcia. I believe I was the best player in Greece that season. I want that title. From PSAPP, if I'm not mistaken, the best Greek Masouras, I was in the top 11. In 3 years of football in Greece, you could say I was a great. I was 29-30 then and there was interest from Emirates.”
-Before you went to Algor, there was another group that wanted you.
“Al Ain always liked me. He offered me a bigger contract than the one I had at Al Ahly. We also signed a preliminary contract. Al Ain is a dream team in Asia, everything was ready for me to go there, but they didn't answer one last thing. 3-4 days passed and we We started to worry. They didn't come on the 5th day and we read that they took a player, Wilson Eduardo, who is now my team-mate at APOEL, who was released from Prague. So, I went to Algor and Aris took the money and I was actually saving them. We were a crying team and I Saved the team, I scored 8 goals. A team that was a joke, we scored 15 goals in total, 8 of which were scored by me because I didn't have that many goals. I said there that I will go to a better team! If you are good, you can play in a good team. We are a We were at the coffee shop and it bothered me that I was going to lose. I was losing, losing…. If I was in Al Qarafa and I won, I wouldn't have a problem. The entire Middle East is looking to Saudi Arabia. I also did Pappas… I ended up staying in Al Gore, season two, with nowhere to go. I signed a three-year contract with the stipulation that if we went down I would leave. We got relegated, I left, but I stayed with a team in Qatar, don't say it was worse than Al Saliya, Algor… It wasn't good there either, I didn't have a good time. Everything. It's a strange environment, it doesn't suit me.”
