Panajot Pano

Panajot Pano
Personnel
birthday	March 7, 1939
place of birth	Durrës ,  Albania
date of death	January 19, 2010
Place of death	Jacksonville ,  United States
position	striker
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1957-1960	17 Nëntori Tirana
1960-1975	FK Partizani Tirana
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1963-1973	Albania	28 (4)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1975-1981	Albania U-21
1 Only league games are given.

Panajot Pano ( Greek Παναγιώτης Πάνου ; * March 7, 1939 in Durrës ; † January 19, 2010 in Jacksonville, Florida ) was an Albanian football player and is considered a legend in Albanian football.

career

Pano came from a Greek family and grew up in the Albanian capital Tirana. He began his career at the age of 12 as a goalkeeper in the SK Tirana youth team . He was later used as a center forward and scored 13 goals in the first season in this position. In 1959 Pano was called up for service in the army and moved to Partizani Tirana . Partizani Tirana was an armed forces football team with ties to the Ministry of Defense.

He played a total of 28 times for the Albanian national soccer team and scored the first competitive goal for Albania on October 30, 1963 in the European Championship qualifier against Denmark . He was also part of the Albanian team, which four years later reached a 0-0 draw against runner-up world champions Germany , which was the only time that Germany was eliminated in qualifying for a major tournament (see: Disgrace of Tirana ). He played his last international game on November 28, 1973 against China , where he scored the goal for the 1-1 final.

Pano's tomb in Tirana

After his resignation in 1975 he took over as coach of the U-21 national team of Albania and also coached the youth players of Partizani. In 2004 he was voted Albanian Player of the Last Century.

successes

He and his club won the Albanian championship four times, the Albanian Cup five times and the Balkan Cup in 1970 .

• Albanian champion: 1961 , 1963 , 1964 , 1971
• Albanian Cup Winner: 1961, 1964, 1966, 1968, 1970, 1973
• Balkan Cup: 1970

Private life

Pano was married and had two children, a son and a daughter with his wife. His son Ledio also became a soccer player. Pano retired from active football in May 1975 and became a coach for several years.

In 2011, the director Kujtim Gjonaj filmed the life of the Albanian football player in a documentary entitled Magjia Pano . His career is described using photographs, newspaper reports and memoirs from his contemporaries.

Web links

• Panajot Pano in the database of weltfussball.de
• All international matches

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Përkujtohet Panajot Pano, 5 vjet nga vdekja e legjendës së futbollit. newsbomb.al, January 19, 2015, accessed February 26, 2016 . 
2. ^ Day of National Mourning in Honor of the Greek Albanian Footballer Panajot Pano. In: World Council of Hellenes Abroad. October 21, 2010, accessed February 24, 2013 . 
3. ↑ Θλίψη για το θάνατο του Παναγιώτη Πάνου, θρύλου του αλβανικού ποδοσφαίρου. In: Athens News Agency. January 21, 2010, accessed February 24, 2013 (Greek). 
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Pano - Albania's little Puskas. de.uefa.com, January 5, 2004, accessed February 26, 2016 . 
5. ↑ UEFA EURO 1964 - History - Albania-Denmark. uefa.com, accessed February 26, 2016 . 
6. ^ Albania national team v China, November 8, 1973. eu-football.info, accessed February 26, 2016 . 
7. ↑ 19. Footballer Pano dead: (PDF, p. 3) on albanien-dafg.de, accessed on February 26, 2016.
8. ↑ Ledio Pano. weltfussball.at, accessed February 26, 2016 (British English). 
9. ↑ In Memoriam: Panajot Pano “The Greatest Soccer Player in Albania”! albaniasoccer.com, accessed February 26, 2016 (American English). 
10. ↑ “Magjia Pano” ne nje film. (No longer available online.) In: Vizion Plus TV Albania. Archived from the original on February 26, 2016 ; accessed on February 26, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.