9/5/2016 With the slogan “come to build the new Leoforos”, the president of Panathinaikos Giannis Alafouzos, displays plans of the upcoming renovation of the “Apostolos Nikolaidis” stadium. The stadium will be gradually renovated, starting June 2016, it will have two-storey stands increasing the capacity to 20,000 seats and will cost a total of €15 million. The study is made by the architects Maria Kokkinou and Andreas Kourkoulas. One week later, on 16/5/2016, SKAI TV will host a three-hour show called “PAO … Leoforos” where the amount of € 1,500,000 will be collected by Panathinaikos fans. At some point, PAO’s president, Yannis Alafouzos is asked to announce the collected money so far. The number he “invented” is translated as “five hundred one-hundred thirty five thousand euros”, causing a great deal of laughs to the audience
9/5/2007 The new Wembley stadium is completed. 72-year-old English architect Norman Foster, knighted in 1990, and his office were the designers of the 90.000-seat stadium, the second largest in Europe after Camp Nou, and the largest in the world with every seat under cover. Two weeks later, on May 24, the first match will be played (England U21s – Italy U21s 3-3) with Giampaolo Pazzini scoring after 28 seconds not only the first but also the fastest goal and also the first hat trick, as he will score all three Italian goals
9/5/2001 Africa’s worst football tragedy takes place at the end of a match at Accra’s Sports Stadium between Hearts of Oak and Kumasi Ashanti Kotoko. 130 got killed as some 70.000 spectators tried to get out of the stadium after police fired tear gas at fans who were tearing up seats
9/5/1998 The Formula 3 Series is held in Megara, with journalist Nikos Evangelatos being one of the 14 participating crews
9/5/1990 Sampdoria win the European Cup Winners Cup by beating Anderlecht 2-0 (Gianluca Viali) in overtime. Viali takes the top scorer award with 7 goals
9/5/1965 Panathinaikos goalkeeper Takis Economopoulos is beaten for the first time since January 17, 1965. He managed to keep a clean sheet for 1.088 minutes. This record of “the bird” is considered to be unbeatable and surprisingly, the goalkeepers, who will threaten to break it in the following 30 years are all going to be players of Panathinaikos as well, like Vassilis Konstantinou (988 and 847 minutes) and Josef Wantzik (906 and 873)
9/5/1960 Jacek Gmoch of Poland debuts with Legia Warsaw, where Stefan Bobek was a coach until the previous season. He will be given the alias “Jaws” (Szczeka) but he will be forced to retire as a professional footballer 8 years later on 17/07/1968, because of a leg injury
9/5/1936 Corinthian Casuals player Bernard Joy is the last amateur to play for England in the match against Belgium
9/5/1930 First race preceding Triple Crown held
9/5/1927 Joe Davis beats Tom Dennis 20-11 and dominates the first Professional Snooker World Championship in Birmingham

 

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