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sorry to be iggnorant but could someone please explain what happend?

 

R.I.P. 21

 

YNWA

 

The history of Karaiskaki Stadium is unfortunately marked by the worst tragedy ever to hit Greek sports and football in particular. It happened on the 8th of February 1981, right after the end of the derby between Olympiakos CFP and AEK Athens FC.

 

The match ended in an unprecedented triumph for the Piraeus team: 6 goals to 0. The final whistle saw thousands of fans rushing to the exits, trying to get to the stadium's main entrance and celebrate with the players. The stairs of Gate 7 became a death trap. The doors were almost closed and the turnstiles still in place, making exit almost impossible. People continued to come down from the stands, not being able to see what happened below because of the stair's shape.

 

The fatal accident left tens of fans seriously injured and 21 young people dead, most by suffocation.

 

Dimitris Adamopoulos (aged 40)

Gerasimos Amitsis (aged 18)

Spyros Andriotis (aged 24)

Kostas Billas (aged 28)

Christos Chadjigeorgiou (aged 34)

Zografoula Chairatidou (aged 23)

Yannis Dialinas (aged 20)

Nikos Filos (aged 19)

Yannis Kanellopoulos (aged 18)

Kostas Karanikolas (aged 26)

Michalis Kostopoulos (aged 21)

Antonis Kouroupakis (aged 34)

Spyros Leonidakis (aged 18)

Efstratios Loupos (aged 20)

Michalis Markou (aged 27)

Vassilis Machas (aged 20)

Ilias Panagoulis (aged 17)

Anastasios Pitsolis (aged 30)

Kostas Sklavounis (aged 16)

Yannis Spiliopoulos (aged 19)

Panagiotis Toumanidis (aged 14)

 

The most tragic (but also enraging) fact is that no one was ever found guilty for what happened, the court hearing unbelievable stories of how no one was responsible!

 

Karaiskaki Stadium with its old form is now part of history. One thing is however for sure: the 21 tragic victims of Gate 7 will never be forgotten. 21 seats with their names, which will always be left empty, will be inside the new stadium. This is a promise by Olympiakos and is perhaps the least that can be done in their memory.

 

http://www.stadia.gr/karaiskaki/karaiskakiold.html

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Karaiskaki Stadium with its old form is now part of history. One thing is however for sure: the 21 tragic victims of Gate 7 will never be forgotten. 21 seats with their names, which will always be left empty, will be inside the new stadium. This is a promise by Olympiakos and is perhaps the least that can be done in their memory.

 

http://www.stadia.gr/karaiskaki/karaiskakiold.html

 

Nice gesture from the club that.

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I met an AEK Athens fan a little while ago, and we got talking about Greek football, and he said despite the rivalry between the two teams he thought our Kop Mosaic for the Olympiakos game was beautiful, and apparently went down very well all over Greece.

 

He also said he hoped AEK stuffed Olympiakos next time in the league, but you can't have it all can you.

 

RIP 21

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