The presentation of the Olympiacos - OPAP collaboration

Monday morning (October 2) Olympiacos BC and OPAP presented their sponsoring collaboration for the 2017-18 season. The owners of Olympiacos BC, Panagiotis and

Giorgos Angelopoulos attended the event, together with the Vice President Giorgos Skindilias, the Commercial Director Nikos Lepeniotis and the all of our team members.

The statements:

 

Damian Cop (CEO of OPAP): "Through the years, OPAP and Olympiacos have built a strong and successful collaboration that is based on our common values and actions on both a sporting and a social level. It is with great joy that we present today the extension of this collaboration, aiming to even greater success this season.
SKRATS is one of the most entertaining and popular games of OPAP. During the previous three years, SKRATS has travelled on the Olympiacos shirt in all over Europe and Greece. To be accurate, in two of the three years of our collaboration, Olympiacos has succeeded to qualify for the Euroleague Final Four and the great final. That's why we often say that SKRATS is the team's good luck charm. These years, Olympiacos has played many unforgettable games that have thrilled the fans allowing them to 'have a live experience of the game'.

 

We are especially happy to be supporting Olympiacos for yet another season. We wish the team, the coaches, the players and the fans good luck in this exciting season, in both Greece and Europe".

 

Christos Stavropoulos (General Director of Olympiacos BC):  "We are very happy to continue our collaboration with OPAP SA for the 7th year in a row. This is a long and successful collaboration since all the previous seasons, from 2011 and forth, either with TZOKER or with SKRATS on our shirts, but always with OPAP by our side, our team has made 4 European finals, we have won 2 Euroleague titles, one Intercontinental Cup and 3 Greek League titles! So, it is obvious that this collaboration is attached to the Olympiacos success and the conquering of the top in Greece and in Europe.

 

Long term collaborations with companies and organizations of the dynamics and the size of the OPAP corporation are a strategic choice for Olympiacos and a one way street. All the more, our goal is to cooperate with the top company of any sector, so our choice could not have been any different. The development of the organization of OPAP in the last years and its dynamics are a match to our effort to maintain the top and evolve into one of the strongest sporting organizations in Europe.

 

At the same time, all the common actions in all kinds of levels, marketing, strategic, social policy and advocating social messages, involving the fans and young kids and many more, are always increasing winning the fans as well as relating awards in Greece and abroad.

 

For Olympiacos, associates of the likes of OPAP are a choice for a parallel route and improvement and we are happy to continue this long term cooperation without any intervals. We certainly have a lot more to create and succeed, in a really tough environment and we hope to contribute to the realization of the OPAP vision for 2020, continuing this collaboration, why not, until 2020 and even further ahead!".

 

Giannis Sfairopoulos (Olympiacos coach):  "It's very important that this collaboration continues for seven years now. SKRATS has really brought us luck and we have succeeded a lot in recent years. I wish we continue working together, through which both sides get to show their socially engaged face, besides being models for the sporting family. Both OPAP and Olympiacos have a great interest in matters that affect our society".

 

Vasilis Spanoulis (Olympiacos captain):  "We are connected with OPAP by two common factors. We are both champions in our field and we both wish to offer to society. I hope to continue working together into the next seasons as well and bring home success ".