Emporion

About Emporion The home jersey worn by Emporion during its Hellenic League of Champions campaign. Emporion, a Greek trading post in modern day Catalonia, might have been founded to take advantage of the fertile agricultural land in the region, but there was no doubt that the most valuable export out of the colony’s famous farmhouse was precocious footballing talent. Fittingly, the club’s success can be attributed to trade not just in goods, but ideas. Ionians who founded Emporion brought with them Heraclitus’ philosophy of panta rhei - the idea that “everything flows”. As the colony’s interest in football grew, every young player that passed through the training pitch in their oikoi would learn to move the ball fluidly and constantly adapt to the match in front of them. Emporion was a popular place of refuge for players whose radical approach to the game put them into conflict with their clubs. Take Ioannes Kryphos, who took his talents to Emporion and turned it into a footballing powerhouse that rivaled its Mediterranean rival Massalia and made them proudly “More Than A Colony”.