Petros Marinakis he was a footballer for Sevilla in the mid-90s. The Bosman law did a lot of damage at the end of the 20th century and Sevilla was one of the clubs that made the most mistakes at the end of it.
In the hot summer of 1996, one of the worst teams in the history of the Nervión club was created with players who today would not come to the Pizjuán club even to volunteer in assisting the public at the stadium. One of them was Petros Marinakis, a man whose passage in La Liga was so negligible that many of you may not remember.
The legend of Petros Marinakis in Seville
With hair blowing in the wind like a soap opera galan and with a certain fame in Greece, his native country, Petros Marinakis arrived in Seville from Olympiakos where he had supposedly established himself as one of the best Greek players of his time. However, the footballer born one night in December of 1968 in the mythical island of Crete, just as legendary as his status as a footballer, in the end it was a disappointment.
That summer of '96 was not the best for Sevilla.
What's more, that season Sevilla brought together talents of the caliber of Colusso in the same locker room, sailor, Jelicic and Oulida e, as was predictable, it ended with a relegation to the Segunda División. It had nothing to do with what would come in the new century.
But good old Petros Marinakis didn't suffer that demotion. Con 11 matches, playing at a decent level, he left the following March to Greece to try to resume his career in a place more suited to his qualities. As we said before, his time in Seville was so fleeting that most Spanish football fans won't remember it, not even the sevillistas, also forse i Hanged by football the faranno. On purpose, it seems that in the 21st century Petros Marinakis is still linked to football as a coach.