Football players of Paliopyrgos have a new look: black shorts and t-shirts decorated with a big cross in purple. Purple are also the letters with the name and the address of the new sponsor of Paliopyrgos FC: Christos Panagiotou, owner of a business offering funeral services. In Greece of economic crisis and recession, sponsors are rare for big and small football clubs.
Paliopyrgos FC made its first appearance against local Rizario FC just recently. The walking sponsored ads won.
No wonder. The players of Rizario must have been participating in the most thrilling game of their football career – with eleven purple crosses chasing them to get the ball. Most likely, they had a very long macabre moment…
Paliopyrgos (or Palaiopyrgos) and Rizario are two villages near Trikala town, in Central Greece.
– news source & pictures: ThessaliaNews, TrikalaVoice –
PS It could also be a hoax, couldn’t it?