Giorgos Chr. writes in his introduction. Georgiou for the album of the basketball AEL:
Sarx from her flesh! The AEL basketball team is made of the same metal as the football team that was created in 1930, a few years after World War I and a decade before World War II began. A group of people founded a sports club, which found solid and fertile ground for its roots to grow and leave a legacy and luster for those who followed. They all carved, out of nowhere, the foundation of the union and a beautiful story began to unfold and continues to be written in golden letters. Through the pages of this special anniversary album, we will learn, but more so we will remember how and why was founded in 1966, a great part of the history of Cypriot sports, the basketball department of AEL, which gave 56 years since it started his action, great successes and emotions among the fans. In the pages that follow, we will find out under and under which conditions reached the great successes, the fall and the re-creation. Because sport has its ups and downs. Who supported it, with which pioneers it marched through difficult times and who contributed to the action and title conquests. The album is dedicated to the children of the legendary team that won the first championship, but also to those who followed, the pioneers and unsung heroes of AEL. Because we have a debt and an obligation to remember them. Difficult to describe in words in an album, the path of the basketball team and the legacy that the club has left behind. Life has given me the opportunity, the happiness and the blessing to experience up close almost all the titles. At first as a simple spectator and then recording all the successes with the eye of a photojournalist and sportswriter. AEL has rightly been characterized as the "Queen of Cypriot Basketball". A dream, a group of gold, loved and admired. This is the legendary AEL basketball team. It always remains the first team to give Cyprus a European title in team sports.
