 The first Serbian player to ever make a revered name for himself in Greece was Borivoje Đorđević, who represented Panathinaikos in the late 1970s.Arguably, Predrag Đorđević, affectionately called "Djole" by Olympiakos spectators, was one Serbian footballer to have played in Greece.Otherwise, Vladimir Ivić was the most successful Serbian football player to have played in Greece for a team other than Olympiacos—Ivić had an illustrious career with PAOK, before which he had played briefly for AEK Athens.