{"id":7280,"date":"2026-05-25T13:29:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T10:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=7280"},"modified":"2026-05-25T13:29:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T10:29:00","slug":"olympiacos-paraskevas-antzas-died-at-the-age-of-49-mourning-in-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=7280","title":{"rendered":"Olympiacos: Paraskevas Antzas died at the age of 49 &#8211; Mourning in football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Heavy mourning<\/b> has been spread across <b>Greek soccer<\/b> the news <b>death<\/b> of <b>Paraskevas Anza<\/b>, who passed away at the age of <b>49<\/b> after a long <b>battling<\/b> with motor neurone disease <b>(ALS).<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The the veteran international defender had been facing<b> serious health problems in recent years,<\/b>as the disease had significantly worsened his condition and confined him to a <b>wheelchair<\/b>.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Antzas was one of the <b>top Greek stopper<\/b> of his generation, leaving a strong imprint on Greek football with the <b>Olympiacos<\/b>, <b>Xanthi <\/b> and <b>Doxas Dramas.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>At the same time, he wore the Greek national team jersey 26 times<\/b>, <\/b>being a key member of the &#8220;blue and white&#8221; team during a particularly important period for the representative team.<\/p>\n<p>The <b>consciousness<\/b> of his death caused <b>shock<\/b> and emotion in the <b><a href=\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.gr\/athlitismos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sporting world<\/b>, with football people and fans alike bidding farewell to an athlete who stood out for both his competitive presence and his character.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The news of the death of Paraskevas Adza, who passed away at the age of 49, after giving many years of service to Greek football.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-greece"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}