Themos Asderis
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Themistoklis Asderis | ||
Date of birth | 1900 | ||
Place of birth | Constantinople, Ottoman Empire | ||
Date of death | 22 March 1975 | (aged 74–75)||
Place of death | Athens, Greece | ||
Position(s) | Defender | ||
Youth career | |||
Enosis Tataoulon | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1918–1923 | Pera Club | ||
1924–1929 | AEK Athens | 0 | (0) |
Managerial career | |||
1931–1933 | AEK Athens | ||
1936–1937 | AEK Athens | ||
1943–1944 | Panathinaikos | ||
1945–1947 | Olympiacos | ||
1950–1951 | Asteras Athens | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Themistoklis "Themos" Asderis (
Club career
Early years
Born in
AEK Athens
Some of those people, in a small place in the offices of the Young Men's Christian Brotherhood of Athens in the center of city, that were housed on Mitropoleos Street, decided to resurrect the Megali Idea, that was born in Constantinople and light the flame that was burning after their drama in 1922 and thus Athlitikí Énosis Konstantinoupόleos (Athletic Union of Constantinople, Greek: Αθλητική Ένωσις Κωνσταντινουπόλεως) were created. Before two months had passed, the newly established AEK were staffed by an overwhelming majority of Constantinopolitan footballers. Among them, the right and central defender (in a 2-3-5 formation), Asderis. In those years, football was highly amateur and there was not a Greek Federation and AEK were training in the open field next to Temple of Olympian Zeus. He formed a great defending partnership alongside Miltos Ieremiadis, for the first 5 years of the club's excistance. Asderis was a small and fast footballer and had already reached the age of 28 when AEK informally acquired their home ground in Nea Filadelfeia and managed to play on the soil of Filadelfeia before retiring from football in 1929, at the young age of 29.[1]
Managerial career
Asderis started his career as a referee almost immediately after his retirement as a football player in 1930 and refereed football matches in both Athens and Thessaloniki for a season, but with meager results. In fact, he, alongside Sotiris Asprogerakas and the Hungarian former coach of AEK, Josef Sveg, were among the few pre-war referees in the history of Greek football.
He was one of the few people who had contact with the sport and very quickly returned to his "home", as he took over the technical leadership of AEK, after the removal of Emil Rauchmaul. With AEK he won the first
He remained at the bench of AEK until 1933 and later returned the team alongside
Asderis spent a period at Panathinaikos,[3] where he helped them stand alongside the other Constantinopolitan and founding member of AEK Fokiona, Dimitriadis, during the very difficult years of the Occupation. With the release of Greece and the restart of the national football championships, came the call from Olympiacos. Asderis became the first coach in the history of Greek football to work in all the clubs of the big three (followed by Helmut Senekowitsch and Jacek Gmoch) and at Olympiacos more mature than ever, he won the championship, as well as the Cup of 1947.[4][5] Asderis was also part of the technical staff during three of the four spells of Negrepontis on the bench of Greece. In 1951 and at the age of 50, the Asderis retired from active role, having done everything in football as a footballer, as a coach and as a referee. He had written his name in the history of both AEK Athens and Olympiacos with a domestic double. Asderis had lived a life full of football, that ended on 22 March 1975, when he left his last breath in Athens.[6][7]
Honours
As a player
Pera Club
- Turkish Championship: 1922
As a coach
AEK Athens
Olympiacos
- Panhellenic Championship: 1946–47
- Greek Cup: 1946–47
- Piraeus FCA Championship: 1946, 1947
References
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- ^ "Οι άνθρωποι στην άκρη του "πράσινου" πάγκου". pao.gr.
- ^ "Το πρώτο νταμπλ του Ολυμπιακού". oldfootball.gr.
- ^ "Ο Βαλβέρδε των ρεκόρ!". sport24.gr.
- ^ "Στον αθλητισμό... σαν σήμερα". enikos.gr. 18 October 2013.
- ^ "Από την Πέρα Κλουμπ στην ΑΕΚ!". aek-live.gr. 22 March 2014.