Years of innocence — Season 1, Episode 7: Episode 7
Documentary • 57 min • 1 season, 8 episodes
Episode synopsis
After the unprecedented emergence of Doxa Dramas in the second half of the fifties, the football clubs of the province didn’t aim high. In the seventies, however, three teams shook things up. The great Panachaiki with Kostas Davourlis and the rest of the talented players reached Europe. PAS Giannina with players from Argentina, which initially appeared as pseudo-Greeks, but eventually became an integral part of the city of Ioannina, offered unforgettable moments of football greatness. Finally, Kastoria went even further by winning the Greek Cup in 1980.
About Years of innocence
“Years of innocence” signifies the return to the sports memories that have been the balm of the souls of our grandparents, our fathers and those younger people who have heard the narratives or studied the photographs of the great idols of older times. We return to the age of football, when figures of the sport emerged from a completely different setting compared to that of recent years. In this day and age, now that the era of “prosperity” has lapsed into decline, looking at those figures who excelled in conditions of extreme poverty, hunger, terror and the weight of History, offers the most exciting model for today's young people. Through football, we focus on a Greece, true but not ideal, that inspired us, that was lost and which we wish to restore in order to inspire us again, in the midst of such a gloomy juncture.