{"id":533,"date":"2008-04-10T00:46:36","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T21:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.iliaspapageorgiadis.ro\/en\/?p=533"},"modified":"2014-03-12T16:41:16","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T14:41:16","slug":"talking-sports-in-exhibitions-i-simply-love-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.iliaspapageorgiadis.ro\/english\/2008\/04\/10\/talking-sports-in-exhibitions-i-simply-love-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking sports in exhibitions \u2013 I simply love it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">The first time I remember myself watching sports was in the spring of 1979. It was a game between Panionios and Olympiakos for the Greek Cup, two Greek football teams. My family had a black and white television, Olympiakos lost 2 \u2013 1 (Panionios later on won the Cup). I, not even 4 years old, felt sympathy for the one who lost and I became his supporter. Since then and especially since 1982, I have been following almost all the major events, until 2000, when more or less I stopped being so enthusiastic.<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\"> <\/span>In International exhibitions you meet people from all over the world. \u201cPeople who have nothing in common with you\u201d someone may say. Wrong, except their passion for work, their ambition and dreams, they are also human beings. Especially the men, in a vast majority, are informed about sports, have their favourite football team etc. So, you can imagine their surprise and almost always their happiness when I open a short discussion about sports. Short but very pleasant, as I will tease them for something, they will tease me for something else and they will be surprised because I know almost all the great players from all the countries the last 20 \u2013 25 years.<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\"> <\/span>Yesterday I had a discussion with 2 gentlemen. The first time I see their smile was when we talked about Olympiakos (my team) and Real Madrid and their games in Champions League this year. They also teased me for Rivaldo, the great player who left my team and now he is part of the team of AEK. They even knew that we lost 10 days ago from him! I love these small cool discussions, especially when I have opposite me someone intelligent who looks enjoying them too. You can not imagine how they can improve a conversation sometimes\u2026 if ofcourse you know how to handle things and without insulting anyone, because in the end we just talk about a game\u2026 (But last year I have closed a nice deal with some Danish people, with who the discussion became friendly when I mentioned Elkjier, Michael Laudrup, Jesper Olsen and Morten Olsen\u2026 some players of their great team in the late \u201980s and \u201990s)<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first time I remember myself watching sports was in the spring of 1979. It was a game between Panionios and Olympiakos for the Greek Cup, two Greek football teams. My family had a black and white television, Olympiakos lost 2 \u2013 1 (Panionios later on won the Cup). I, not even 4 years old, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":59454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[240],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iliaspapageorgiadis.ro\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iliaspapageorgiadis.ro\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iliaspapageorgiadis.ro\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iliaspapageorgiadis.ro\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iliaspapageorgiadis.ro\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.iliaspapageorgiadis.ro\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iliaspapageorgiadis.ro\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iliaspapageorgiadis.ro\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iliaspapageorgiadis.ro\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iliaspapageorgiadis.ro\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}