page_title: Giorgos Kalafatis
section_title: Sports career
hierarchical_section_title: Giorgos Kalafatis / Sports career
caption_attribution_description: Ελληνικά: Η Ελληνική Στρατιωτική ομάδα ποδοσφαίρου που συμμετείχε στους Πανσυμμαχικούς Αγώνες στο Παρίσι το 1919. Από αριστερά επάνω: Λουκάς Πανουργιάς, Λ. Τραγανός, άγνωστος, Δ. Δεμερτζής, Βαγγέλης Κουρέντης, Γ. Δεμερτζής, Κ. Κστρίτσης, Μ. Ισαΐας Αριστερά κάτω: Γρ. Βλαχόπουλος, Γιάννης Σταυρόπουλος, Ιωσήφ Τερζάκης, Γιώργος Καλαφάτης, Γιώργος Χατζηανδρέου Χρωματική επεξεργασία: user Sportingn
context_page_description: Giorgos Kalafatis was a Greek football pioneer, player, coach, track and field athlete and the founder of Panathinaikos football club.
context_section_description: Being a big athletic talent, he distinguished himself in track and field sports. But football was his big passion. He played for Ethnikos G.S. Athens and when his later club Panellinios decided to discontinue its football team, Kalafatis together with 40 other athletes broke away and established in February 1908 the first team of Panathinaikos, named Podosfairikos Omilos Athinon (Football Club of Athens) at the time. Kalafatis appointed the Englishman John Cyril Campbell as coach for the new team. It was the first time that a foreigner was appointed as the coach of a Greek team.
  Apart from Giorgos Kalafatis, other establishing members of POA were: his brother Alexandros, who was the first president, Emmanouel Chrysis, Dimitris Doukakis, Periklis Mpoumpoulis, Granitsas, Mantzakos, Papageorgiou, Gaetas, Demertzis, Stavropoulos, Paschos, Misakian, Reppas, Sapounias and Garoufalias.
  In 1919, he was a member of the Greek national team that participated in the Inter-Allied Games in Paris. In Paris, Kalafatis collected information also about basketball and volleyball (sports unknown then in Greece) and after his return to Athens, started his efforts on creating new teams with Panathinaikos. He was also a player/manager for Greece in the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp.
  Kalafatis played football until the early 1920s. After he retired, he remained in Panathinaikos as an official.
caption: The Greek national team for the Inter-Allied Games in Paris, 1919. Kalafatis is seated, second from right.
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