Themos Asderis

Struck by misfortune, they soon sought the daily life of the city, and two years after the war, they tried to play football in a poor, wounded and suspicious towards the refugees Greece.

Some of those people, in a small place in the offices of the Young Men's Christian Brotherhood of Athens in the center of city, that were housed on Mitropoleos Street, decided to resurrect the Megali Idea, that was born in Constantinople and light the flame that was burning after their drama in 1922 and thus Athlitikí Énosis Konstantinoupόleos (Athletic Union of Constantinople, Greek: Αθλητική Ένωσις Κωνσταντινουπόλεως) were created.

In fact, he, alongside Sotiris Asprogerakas and the Hungarian former coach of AEK, Josef Sveg, were among the few pre-war referees in the history of Greek football.

AEK after the renewal and the arrival of the players of their academy, which was the first in Greece, such as Kleanthis Maropoulos, Tryfon Tzanetis and Michalis Delavinias, were ready to start their domestic domination.

Unfortunately, the World War II came, as Mussolini ordered his troops to invade Greece after the historic refusal of Metaxas to surrender the country to the Italians and football was no longer priority.

[2] Asderis spent a period at Panathinaikos,[3] where he helped them stand alongside the other Constantinopolitan and founding member of AEK Fokiona, Dimitriadis, during the very difficult years of the Occupation.

Asderis became the first coach in the history of Greek football to work in all the clubs of the big three (followed by Helmut Senekowitsch and Jacek Gmoch) and at Olympiacos more mature than ever, he won the championship, as well as the Cup of 1947.