Panionios marks centenary since it left Smyrna

Members of the Panionios soccer team gathered at the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens on Thursday to mark 100 years since the club was re-established after leaving the shores of Asia Minor in Turkey.

“In 1922, the great visionary Dallas Demetros, from a small room in [the stadium], undertook the reconstitution of Panionios G.S. Smyrna on Athenian soil!” the club said in a statement.