Early Years
Giannakis was born and raised in a poor neighborhood of Nikaia, Athens. Ηis parents, Dimitris, owner of a motorbike workshop, and Kalliope, a weaver, gave birth to five boys. Panagiotis is the youngest child of the family.
Giannakis started playing football around his neighborhood. He showed an early inclination to sport and tried basketball. He began watching the matches of a local basketball club, and later he was approached by the coach of the youth team of Ionikos Nikaias, who proposed to him that he join their team.
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