Michalis Papazoglou

Michalis Papazoglou was a Greek athlete from

Constantinople la, Constantinopolis ota, قسطنطينيه , alternate_name = Byzantion (earlier Greek name), Nova Roma ("New Rome"), Miklagard/Miklagarth (Old Norse), Tsargrad ( Slavic), Qustantiniya (Arabic), Basileuousa ("Queen of Cities"), Megalopolis (" ...

. He started with track and field sports but when he came to Athens in the early 1910s, he joined the football club PPO (later to become PAO). He was the man who had the idea of adopting the

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as the official emblem of Panathinaikos. Beside football, he was also an athlete of

discus throw The discus throw (), also known as disc throw, is a track and field event in which an athlete throws a heavy disc—called a discus—in an attempt to mark a farther distance than their competitors. It is an ancient sport, as demonstrated by th ...

and javelin throw. Papazoglou was also a great figure in the National Resistance during

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. He joined the resistance group of

Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz ( el, Γεώργιος Ιβάνωφ-Σαϊνόβιτς, ''Georgios Ivanof-Sainovits''; 14 December 1911 – 4 January 1943) was a Polish-Greek athlete who fought as a saboteur in the Greek Resistance during World War II ...

- an athlete of Polish origin of

Iraklis Thessaloniki Gymnasticos Syllogos Iraklis ( el, Γυμναστικός Σύλλογος Ηρακλής, en, Gymnastics Club Heracles), commonly referred to as Iraklis, is a Greek multi-sports club based in Thessaloniki. The club was founded in 1908 as "Ma ...

. The group's mission was to give information to the British and to organize sabotages. With some external help from the naval base, the group succeeded in destroying three German airplanes and sinking three small warships. He was arrested on 12 October 1942 and was transferred to the Averof Prison. He was tortured but finally managed to escape in September 1944. {{DEFAULTSORT:Papazoglou, Michalis People from Constantinople vilayet Panathinaikos A.O. Panathinaikos Athletics Panathinaikos F.C. players Panathinaikos F.C. non-playing staff Greek footballers Greek male discus throwers Greek male javelin throwers Greek Resistance members Greek torture victims Greek prisoners and detainees Year of birth missing Year of death missing Association footballers not categorized by position Constantinopolitan Greeks Footballers from Istanbul