Greek/Cypriot-American Soccer Star Jack Panayotou
๐€ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ซ ๐ฆ๐ข๐๐Ÿ๐ข๐ž๐ฅ๐๐ž๐ซ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐ž๐ฐ ๐„๐ง๐ ๐ฅ๐š๐ง๐ ๐‘๐ž๐ฏ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Œ๐‹๐’. ๐€ ๐‚๐š๐ฆ๐›๐ซ๐ข๐๐ ๐ž, ๐Œ๐š๐ฌ๐ฌ๐š๐œ๐ก๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ž๐ญ๐ญ๐ฌ n๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž. Jack is a Hometown Hero Just the 10th player ever to sign a Homegrown contract! ๐‰๐š๐œ๐คโ€™๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐Œ๐‹๐’ ๐†๐จ๐š๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐š๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐€๐ฆ๐š๐ณ๐ข๐ง๐ ! ๐‹๐ž๐š๐๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐‘๐ž๐ฏ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐•๐ข๐œ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ in The League Cup Group Stage. Playing just one college season before going professional at 19 years old! At Georgetown University Jack was the ๐ญ๐ž๐š๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐๐ž๐ซ ๐ฌ๐œ๐จ๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐Ÿ• ๐†๐จ๐š๐ฅ๐ฌ ๐Ÿ‘ ๐š๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฌ 

Greek/Cypriot-American Soccer Star Jack Panayotou

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Super Athlete Harry "The Golden Greek" Agganis
The greatest dual sport athlete of all time. This week Greek American Sports has honored the eternal memory of the Golden Greek Harry Agganis. Stay tuned as we will have a few more posts of Harry Agganis! Please watch the excellent and exciting documentary โ€œExcellence to the Endโ€ It is available on Amazon Prime, Apple TV & Roku TV. Also check out GreekAmericanSports.com and read this week's Agganis post. Harry truly was one of Americas greatest athletes! ฮ‘ฮธฮฌฮฝฮฑฯ„ฮฟฯ‚ ! Fun fact: Also in this Reel is Harryโ€™s childhood friend Lou Tsiropoulos Boston Celtic World Champion 1957 & 1959. The Agganis Legacy is everlasting.

Super Athlete Harry "The Golden Greek" Agganis

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Pyrros Dimas The Most Decorated Olympic Weightlifter
Pyrros Dimas - The Most Decorated Olympic Weightlifter of all time.๐Ÿฅ‡Winning 3 Olympic Gold Medals๐Ÿฅ‡& a Bronze in the 2004 Athens Olympic Games. Pyrros is a Greek Weightlifting Legend. Pyrros now serves as the technical director for Team USA Weightlifting. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿ‹๏ธโ€โ™€๏ธ

Pyrros Dimas The Most Decorated Olympic Weightlifter

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Greek American Football Star Athan Kaliakmanis
The name is ๐€๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ง ๐Š๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐š๐ค๐ฆ๐š๐ง๐ข๐ฌ a superstar in D1 Football for Rutgers University. A 6-3, 213 pound Quarterback who threw for 1,815 yards last season at Minnesota. ๐Ÿˆ โ€œThe Greek Rifleโ€ was amazing in Rutgers week one Victory - throwing 3 passing touchdowns for 147 yards. Athan's brother Dino is also on the team a standout tight end. The Antioch, Illinois natives are very proud of their Greek heritage. Many New Jersey & New York Greek-Americans were seen holding flags, as they plan to show support at all of Rutgers home games. ๐Ÿˆ

Greek American Football Star Athan Kaliakmanis

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Greek American Basketball Star Tyler Dorsey
A star player for Olympiakos basketball club, Dorsey proudly represented the Greek National Team! Tyler grew up in California. An impressive well decorated college career in Oregon scoring 1,000 college points in D1 play. Drafted in the NBA by the Atlanta Hawks. Averaging 22 PPG in the G-League. Tyler is known as a SHARP SHOOTER๐Ÿ€

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Boxer Johnny "The Greek" Birmpilis
Johnny โ€œThe Greekโ€ Birmpilis๐ŸฅŠis an up ๐š๐ง๐ coming boxer with an ๐Ÿ–-๐Ÿ record in Professional Boxing. Fighting in the Super Lightweight Division, Johnny holds an impressive ๐Ÿ’ knockouts! Fighting at 141 pounds, Birmpilis is known for his great speed and strength. Birmpilis has quite the ๐ข๐ง๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ข๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐š๐ฅ life story. One of ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐›๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ amateur boxers in Greece with a record of ๐Ÿ”๐Ÿ”-๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ—! Johnny left Larissa jn pursuit of advancing his career. Making the ๐Ž๐๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฒ ๐ญ๐จ ๐‚๐š๐ง๐š๐๐š with just his boxing gloves & a dream knowing hardly ๐š๐ง๐ฒ ๐„๐ง๐ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฌ๐ก. Johnny was ๐ž๐ฆ๐›๐ซ๐š๐œ๐ž๐ by the ๐“๐จ๐ซ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐จ ๐†๐ซ๐ž๐ž๐ค Community. Now training in Florida, โ€œThe Greekโ€ is a force to be reckoned with in the Super Lightweight Division!

Boxer Johnny "The Greek" Birmpilis

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Greek American Basketball Player George Papas
The name is ๐†๐ž๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐ž ๐๐š๐ฉ๐š๐ฌ, a 6'5" talented guard with versatile scoring ability. Born & raised in ๐๐ž๐ฐ ๐‰๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฒ, basketball brought Papas back to his Greek roots. Now playing for Peristeri in the Euroleague, Papas was a star at Monmouth University scoring over ๐Ÿ,๐ŸŽ๐ŸŽ๐ŸŽ ๐ฉ๐จ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐ƒ๐Ÿ ๐๐ฅ๐š๐ฒ! Papas represented the Greek National Team and earned a ๐„๐ฎ๐ซ๐จ๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐ ๐ฎ๐ž ๐‚๐ก๐š๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐ฉ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐Ž๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ข๐š๐ค๐จ๐ฌ. Georgeโ€™s brother Tommy was a walk-on at William and Mary now plays for ๐‚๐ฅ๐ฎ๐› ๐Œ๐ฒ๐ค๐จ๐ง๐จ๐ฌ. Amazing to see two ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฎ๐๐ž๐ง๐ญ-๐š๐ญ๐ก๐ฅ๐ž๐ญ๐ž Greek-Americans ๐ž๐ฑ๐œ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐  at the highest level of competition, and inspiring the youth! ฮœฯ€ฯฮฑฮฒฮฟ๐Ÿ‘

Greek American Basketball Player George Papas

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