Nea Bafra
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News on a couple of former PAOK players, one much loved, the other not so much
Pablo Contreras
Kostas Katsouranis
http://theworldgame.sbs.com.au/article/2015/09/29/greek-legend-katsouranis-heidelbergs-headline-act
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Thank you so much Blackhawk!
I'm trying to get the game there.
I signed in and I had to translate every page to english but up to now I'm receiving the message Your account is currently awaiting moderation. You will receive an email when a decision has been taken.
From the torrents page I did not find any football game to be downloaded but probably it would be available only after complete registration is finalized. Let' see.
It takes a couple of days mate
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I've made a promise to one of my cousins who in his younger days used to be a gate 4 psycho that if and when PAOK make it to he champions league group stages I will fly over for a fortnight and take in a home and an away game and take him with me.
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Yes, that is definitely a great story, I hope he's all right now. I've heard the same about the families needing to be the nurses, too.
-edit- also, that is a hell of an adorable baby
Great topic Dutch Eagle. Can I get you on retainer in case I need a lawyer for the next time I cause an "incident?"
she's six now, she tells me she wants to play for PAOK when she grows up. Unfortunately for her that might be easier than breaking into her local club's womens team.
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Wow great story, sorry to ask this is your father okay now?
Thanks Pana, unfortunately Dad had had a succession of strokes from about 2003 up until 2010 with about 4 major ones up until he had that one in Greece. Up until that one they had only left a minor loss of peripheral eyesight after he had rehab, however the one he had in Greece left him blind and mentally affected. Once we got him home he had a couple more big ones and passed away in 2012.
As sad as it is, from what the neurologists have since told us, the condition he has that caused it, meant that he probably had in excess of 30 strokes/bleeds in the brain over the decade, some obviously though would have been too minor to notice. By the end it was in part a relief as well as a loss.
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my story is not a short one, but here goes anyway.
in early 2010 my wife and I thought we'd take our 16 month old daughter to Greece to see my Yiayia. Thought, may as well get a holiday in and booked 4 weeks with some time on an island and in Athens as well as a stop in Paris to see my best friend who lives in London now.
My folks said 'how about we come at the same time' while not ideal from a cramping our style point of view, there was a bit of on hand babysitting that could be done. Dad went over 3 months earlier being retired to see his mum, and my mum would fly over with us.
A fortnight before we were supposed to fly out my Theia calls and says your dad has had a stroke and he's in the hospital in Drama.
Mum and I fly out within 48 hours and spend the next week doing the nurses job for them in the hospital [never, ever get sick in Greece EVER the hospital in Drama looked like something out of an old school Eastern Bloc cold war era time]. Eventually we get Dad moved to the Diabalkaniko hospital in Thessaloniki and the place and doctors there are amazing. They put Dad in an induced coma and into the ICU for 2 weeks. During that time we can only see him for 30 minutes twice a day at very specific times.
The hospital happens to be next to the Hotel Nikopolis so we stayed there so we could walk back and forth. I think I've mentioned this previously but this is where the players and coaches would spend the 24 hours previous to any home game or departure for any away game having meetings and other stuff.
This was also during the playoffs at the end of the 2009/2010 season and there had been a Wednesday game at home to Olympiakos postponed for the general strike [the day some psychokhunt threw a molotov at a bank and killed people inside]. They rearranged it for a Sunday and so there were plenty of tickets available.
I jump in the car and head to Toumba to buy a ticket. The guy asks me what kind of ticket I want. My answer a pair of the most expensive ones you've got as long as they guarantee me a seat. There was no way I was talking my wife to a game and going in Gate 4.
So the day comes around and we jump in a cab to the ground and go in. The wall of sound is immense, we walk to our allocated seats and they're taken. Not being used to not being able to see anyone remotely looking like a steward/marshall/usher anywhere in site, I say to the guy, I think these are our seats. He laughs and says, listen mate I don't know what your ticket says but we always have these seats. Now I'm no hero especially with my wife there so I look further up the stand and there are plenty of free seats so we go a few rows further back and relax waiting for the teams to head out. My wife starts pissing herself laughing when the PAOK players come out to the strains of ACDC's Thunderstruck 'haven't they got any metal songs of their own?'
The game starts and we are all over them like a rash, Lino was especially strong that day up and back like greyhound. Nikopolidis fluffed a clearance deflected by Filomeno that went to Muslimovic who slotted it. We dominated large swathes of the game but couldn't exactly relax on a one goal lead. However the scores remained unchanged and everyone left very happy [particularly as away supporters were banned during the playoffs]
Below are some photos I took from the game and a youtube link to the highlights.
I had been to see PAOK a number of times in Serres, but never at Toumba.
Meanwhile back at the hotel we were there for pretty much the entire playoff run so I saw the players around quite a bit. I even sat and had a coffee with Muslimovic [he really is one of the nicest people you could meet] in the bar. One of the girls that worked there gave my daughter a handful of karameles and told her to go and give them to Fernando Santos to see if she could get her to make him smile or laugh [she swore she had not seen him smile once in 2 years] and she got him to crack a smile, but no laugh, she even got a hug from Conceicao.
Could you not laugh at this?
It was the brightest part of a truly awful and horrific time.
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It's such a shame. We hear about this kind of stuff way too often. Had it been diagnosed, he most likely could have continued and had a long career. I'm completely ignorant of what would lead to this diagnosis too; clearly it's beyond the physicals players usually go through? Krima.
I would assume that had he been bought by another club they would have given him the standard heart test, but as he was a youth player of theirs he wouldn't get one in order to be promoted to the senior team
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if only Olsen would stay in Sweden
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Veria's Stelios Markousis (GK) died during training - heart attack. Awful news, he was only 18.
just damn tragic
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@Pontos: Sorry to bring you the bad news. Hope you can change the date.
@Original 21: www.fcpaok.net and it is usual in Greece, because everybody has to vote in his hometown so there is always a mass migration those day as nobody registres as an inhabitant of his new town but stays registred in the chorio.
as I copy and paste the site I see that the Barbatov-deal is a fact. Even Dutch soccersites talk about it (and the fact that Arnesen is overruled by Savvidis who completed the deal himself)
is anyone else seeing savvidis patting arnesen on the back and saying 'asto se mena mikre' then turning to Berbatov as he pulls out his wallet 'how much for cash?'
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I would venture to say that his signing is one of the biggest ones in Greek soccer history. It's definitively up there with Rivaldo, etc.
as long as he plays the full season. if he plays 9 games and scores 3 goals not so much
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There should be a way to add negative votes, then we would probably see Olsen at -20
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I voted for Malezas because if we hadn't picked him up we would be in a world of pain
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hahaha greeks, incapable of doing 2 things at once
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I'd assume it's match fitness but I could be wrong, I don't think Tudor could drop Malezas with the way our defensive stocks are at the moment
or the way they are treating Costa
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I agree....Costa's contract should have been priority #1...at this point (unless they have something up their sleeves this late in transfer period, which I doubt) you keep quiet and start looking for 2 studs on Defense for the winter.
surely though it's less risky to get the players in and then work at reducing costa's wage.
it's like telling your wife it's over then asking your girlfriend to move in and she tells you to F*** off.
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looks like plan B is done. 22 year old ghanaian striker Richmond Boakye from atlanta.
He's only just been bought outright by Atalanta [one of those stupid co-ownership italian deals], seems weird hey would do that only to sell him
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I'm curious, so where in Greece is everyone from?
I'll start,
Dad was from a little xorio about 30 minutes outside Drama but in Nomos Serres called Nea Bafra and mum is from a town called Polikarpi in Nomos Pell past edessa towards the hot springs at Loutraki.
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for that tough stretch of games... why are they giving us all the big home games so early? AEK, oly, and PAO are coming to toumba within the next couple months? from then on who do we look forward to hosting at toumba besides european opponents.
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No the Kafenio is where all the old grumpy Greeks hang out and play Birimba, Bida, Thanasi and complain about their shitty kids and wives. That's upstairs from the proposed gyradiko...hahah
no tavli?
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well fack i forgot about that slight technicality dammit haha. that means i'll just have to get on the greek radio.
online? if so where?
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Pash and nea bafra you guys jist saved my ass from having to drive back and forth across town tomorow lol
i think there is a monthly fee involved, but that might just be to use the app
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He has been (so far) a huge surprise. As long as team (and ESPECIALLY us fans!) don't get too excited and expect miracles the first season, this could work out.
What would be refreshing is that when we hit a patch of poor results [it will happen eventually] and the players start cracking the sads and causing trouble [Tzavella i'm looking at you m#$%!] that the board says screw you, do what the coach says or get lost, as opposed to our normal response of "ach ta kaimena mora" let's sack the coach.
It's embarrassing that since 1970 our longest serving coach is Santos and that was less than 3 years. 12 times in those years we have had 3 coaches in a season and we had 5 coaches in a season once.
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EL-GS-R2: PAOK FC - Borussia Dortmund (01-Oct-15, 22:05 GR)
in PAOK FC
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Pontos, did you get tickets to this?