The Anonymous Widower

Greek Football Team Turns To Brothels For Sponsorship

I spotted this in one of the small articles in The Times yesterday. But the only place I can find it on the web is here on a New Zealand web site.

Here’s a couple of paragraphs.

Players on a cash-strapped Greek football team now wear pink practice jerseys with the logos “Villa Erotica” and “Soula’s House of History,” two bordellos it recruited as sponsors after drastic government spending cuts left the country’s sports clubs facing ruin.

Other teams have also turned to unconventional financing. One has a deal with a local funeral home and others have wooed kebab shops, a jam factory and producers of Greece’s trademark feta cheese.

But the amateur Voukefalas club – whose players include pizza delivery guys, students, waiters and a bartender – has raised eyebrows with its flamboyant sponsorship choice.

Times are obviously hard in Greece.

October 21, 2012 - Posted by AnonW | News, Sport | Football, Greece