Blackhawk

Just what we needed. Another Athenian suburban team controlled by the big guys in the Superleague.

Lucescu signed a 3-year contract for him and his 7-team coaching staff worth 1.7 mil Euro per season plus bonuses. Garcia was offered the position of PAOK B coach plus support to further his coaching education and acquire UEFA coaching license. He declined to accept or reject the offer at this time asking for more time.

I am still waiting for a Technical Director to be announced.

I really doubt Lucescu will be as successfull as the first time. There is no chance in hell he will go undefeated again, and we all know that's what the fans will demand and probably will be needed to win a title again. I'll give it about 3 months before grumbling starts.

Rumors are the Savvidis family is stabbing Garcia in the back and is bringing back Lucescu at 1.8 mil per year.

They played at their stadium this season. Just heard that Kosta Frantzeskos (PAOK, PAO, OFI legend) will be joining Larisa. Why would someone be signing with the sleazebag Kougias is beyond me.

We would start 2 weeks later.

We lost EL, but we can apparently move up to ECL-QR3 if Villarreal wins Europa League.

Garcia can't officially be the coach of the team since he does not have a UEFA coaching license, so on paper it's Thomaidis.

Krmencik declared MVP of the game, but I think it should have been Paschalakis in my opinion.

Did not have picture in the 2nd half. Only radio. Watching the replay of the game on ERT3 right now with my mind at ease as I know that there will be happy ending.

2:1 final Greek Cup winners

Krmencik 3rd time is the charm. 4 minutes extra time.

Gooooooooooooool

Bad timing to get scored on. Bad defense.

Halftime 1:0 We will need to play smart defense in 2nd half. And we can't be making easy mistakes as we did on few occasions in 1st half. We need a second goal as I think they will get a penalty from the ref that is clearly favoring Olympiakos. They should have at least 2 yellow cards by now.

Total domination by Olympiakos so far.

Big save by Paschalakis

He will throw in Krmencik in 2nd half and possibly extra time when the Oly defense might be tired out. Hopefully we are still in the game by that time.

Oops. Take Tzolis out.

Apparently the only question mark is El Kaddouri. I expect this lineup: ------------ Paschalakis ------------ --- Vieirinha --- Varela --- Crespo --- Rodrigo ‐‐---------------------- Baba -------- Schwab ---- Augusto ------- Zivkovic ----------------------- Warda --------------- Krmencik -------------

That's good news. Too bad we will miss Michailidis. He might not have started but he would definitively be a sub, specially with Crespo not having many playing minutes. At least Mihaj got some minutes and will be able to step in.

The game against Norway will be played in Malaga, Spain.

It apparently is a player (Michailidis?) ERT3 will show it on 2 hour tape delay, basically right after the game finishes. If anyone finds a live stream let us know. I am stuck in Arizona this week and won't have access to Antenna Satellite. Might have to settle for the ERT3 Web stream delay.

If Swiderski ends up going to Euro, PAOK be paid approximately 4,500 Euro by UEFA for each day that his team stays in the competition. The only other PAOK player that might be going to Euro is Krmencik, but I am not sure if we get the money or Club Brugge.