LA Chargers Boss Dean Spanos Vows to Bring NFL to Greece

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Dean Spanos, proprietor of the Los Angeles Chargers, is readying to present the NFL to Greece’s market, according to the Chief of Staff and Counselor of the LA Chargers, Fred Maas.

Speaking astatine property league successful Athens Maas said that with the eventual extremity of bringing the sport’s satellite title to Greece. The inaugural begins with a bid of younker camps and grassroots programs, acceptable to motorboat immediately, aiming to cultivate a caller procreation of fans and players successful the country.

Spanos’s imagination of the NFL successful Greece

If American shot manages to triumph implicit the Greek public, past the “Spanos bet” whitethorn beryllium to beryllium much than conscionable different planetary expansion: a caller section successful the sports transportation betwixt Greece and the USA. “Greece is simply a state with a heavy transportation to sports since past times. What amended mode than to bring the NFL here?” said Maas.

The archetypal large enactment successful Athens took spot connected Saturday, April 26, erstwhile the squad initiated the draught process with images from Greece and the Acropolis, a tv lawsuit for the USA that attracted the attraction of much than 12 cardinal viewers.

The NFT Draft successful caller years has been much fashionable than adjacent the NBA, Maas pointed out. This is the commencement of a semipermanent programme to present Greeks to American football, which volition see events passim the year, selling and promotion activities, arsenic good arsenic monitoring involvement successful the athletics successful the country.

The plans see organizing younker camps, which volition statesman successful September, giving children the accidental to get to cognize the athletics done play and fun, portion ticker parties volition besides beryllium organized.

In Greece, astir 4,000 NFL fans already ticker games, portion astatine slightest 2 cardinal viewers ticker the Super Bowl expansive finale, which is 1 of the biggest sporting events successful the world, connected their TVs.

The Spanos family, known for their publication to Greece, particularly successful times of situation and earthy disasters, sees the task arsenic a semipermanent bet.“It doesn’t substance however overmuch we put – we already person 5 radical successful Greece organizing it. It volition instrumentality time, but we are afloat committed to our goal. It whitethorn instrumentality 5-10 years until we spot an NFL crippled successful Greece, but we volition marque it happen,” Maas said.

The arrogant Greeks of the Spanos family

Spanos, raised successful Stockton, California, is the lad of Alex Spanos and Faye Papafaklis, some of Greek ancestry.

He had served arsenic President of the Chargers since aboriginal successful 1994, the aforesaid twelvemonth the squad culminated its astir memorable play with an quality successful Super Bowl XXIX.

Dean and father, Alex Spanos, besides secured Super Bowl XXXII (1998) and Super Bowl XXXVII (2003) for their assemblage with each lawsuit bringing an estimated windfall of much than $300 cardinal to the section economy.

The Spanos family has a multi-generation committedness to assemblage engagement and is recognized arsenic 1 of the NFL’s astir philanthropic families and 1 of Southern California’s astir progressive and caring contributors to section causes.

Their fiscal and affectional enactment for youth, sports, education, and our brave men and women successful azygous has been a hallmark of their squad ownership and legacy.