{"id":508599,"date":"2022-02-16T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/vassilis-geragotellis-personal-statement\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T08:52:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T05:52:32","slug":"vassilis-geragotellis-personal-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/vassilis-geragotellis-personal-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"Vassilis Geragotellis&#8217; personal statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\"> \t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Maccabi is one of the biggest clubs in Europe. This kind of club that is above individuals and lasts forever. However, I strongly believe that people who surround this team are the ones who make it even greater.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">I&rsquo;m the kind of person who loves to get connected to others and I&rsquo;m very happy that in Maccabi I made only friends. Real friends. Friends within the ownership and management, friends who work for the team and friends who are fans of the club. I want to thank all of them for making me understand, in their own special way, that Maccabi is not just a team but a way of life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">I&rsquo;m leaving Maccabi with a lot of beautiful memories and have the certainty that we did our best, knowing that sometimes the best was not enough to succeed in all our goals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">I would like to thank all the players and the coaches I worked with, the amazing staff of the team and the people at the offices for their constant support and assistance. Lastly, I want to thank Giannis who gave me the honor and the privilege to coach by his side such a unique club as Maccabi for three and a half seasons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Scientists say that dreams last for some minutes, mine lasted 3 years 2 months and 28 days.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">To friends we don&rsquo;t say &ldquo;Goodbye&rdquo;, so let&rsquo;s say &ldquo;See you again my friends&rdquo;. Yalla maccabi!<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"> \t<em><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Vassilis<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<ul dir=\"ltr\">\n<li> \t\t<a href=\"\/%d7%94%d7%9e%d7%a1%d7%a8-%d7%a9%d7%9c-%d7%99%d7%90%d7%a0%d7%99%d7%a1-%d7%a1%d7%a4%d7%a8%d7%95%d7%a4%d7%95%d7%9c%d7%95%d7%a1-%d7%9c%d7%9e%d7%a9%d7%a4%d7%97%d7%aa-%d7%9e%d7%9b%d7%91%d7%99\/\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><u><strong>Giannis Sfairopoulos&#8217; message &gt;<\/strong><\/u><\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"> \t<em><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1920\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Thank20You20Vassilis20Story.jpg\" style=\"\" class=\"wp-image-519396 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Thank20You20Vassilis20Story.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Thank20You20Vassilis20Story-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Thank20You20Vassilis20Story-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Thank20You20Vassilis20Story-768x1365.jpg 768w, https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Thank20You20Vassilis20Story-864x1536.jpg 864w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/span><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":519395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-508599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-54"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508599"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":526251,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508599\/revisions\/526251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508599"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=508599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}