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Now that we almost secured the Greek Championship (barring any last minute point deductions) let's look ahead to our participation in the 2019-2020 European competitions. PAOK will play in the Champions League qualifying rounds via the Champions route. PAOK enters the competition with 23.500, which is a drop in points from previous seasons thanks to our poor European performances in the past two seasons. PAOK will enter the competition either in 2nd Qualifying Round or 3rd Qualifying Round. It all depends on who wins the current Champions League competition. In order to enter the competition in 3rd Qualifying Round we need the winner of the Champions League to be a team that will also gain a CL group stage spot for next season through their home championship. As things stand it looks like the only way for us to start in the 2nd Qualifying Round is if Ajax Amsterdam wins the Champions League because Dutch champions don't get a direct spot in the group stage of CL. In any case PAOK will most likely be unseeded in all the draws in the qualifying rounds.

VS MATCHUP: Asteras Tripolis - P.A.O.K. Thessaloniki COMPETITION: Greek Cup – Semifinal – Leg 2 DATE: 25-April-2019 TIME: 16:00 EEST (13:00 GMT, 08:00 CDT, 23:00 AEST next day) CITY/STADIUM: Tripoli – Theodoros Kolokotronis Stadium (Capacity: 7,717) REFEREES: Aggelos Euaggelou (Athens) - Damianos Efthimiadis (Pierias), Andreas Fotopoulos (Athens) TELEVISION: COSMOTE Sport 1 (Greece), Antenna Satellite (USA/Canada), Antenna Pacific (Australia), Laola1.TV (Worldwide) PAOK – Asteras Tripolis Greek Cup history: 2018-2019: PAOK - Asteras Tripolis 2:0 (Matos 2) - Attendance: ? (Semifinal – Leg 1) 2012-2013: Asteras Tripolis - PAOK 2:0 - Attendance: 7,500 (Semifinal – Leg 2) 2012-2013: PAOK - Asteras Tripolis 2:1 (Athanasiadis, Salpiggidis) - Attendance: 26,901 (Semifinal – Leg 1) GAMES: 3 WINS: 2 TIES: 0 LOSSES: 1

Starting today MEGA Cosmos is no longer available on Dishnetwork or any other provider in the US.

What does that supposed to mean?

It's not the sports minister that wants this. It's novasport and ERT the two TV companies that show Superleague games that set the number of games.

You know we want to see pics with your Kilt at the festive Toumba.

From what I hear about the Varela negotiations it's not the player that is the problem. It is the agent that wants an enormous signing bonus. Vafrela basically agreed to a 1.1 mil + bonuses, but PAOK will not sign the new contract if the agent does not drop his demands.

Well the person with the crazy playoff idea was elected the new president of Superleague today. Alyssandrou (AEK) defeated the PAOK candidate Makis Gagatsis 8:6. Basically the 3 big Athens teams joined hands together (POK lives and never dies!) to defeat Gagatsis. With the help with some of their puppet teams the were able to get the 8:6 win. POK and puppet teams voting for Alyssandrou: Olympiakos AEK Panathinaikos Aris Panionios Lamia OFI Apollon Teams voting for Gagatsis: PAOK AO Xanthi Atromitos Panaitolikos AE Larisa Levadeiakos Abstaining from voting PAS Giannina Asteras Tripoli

Let the fiesta begin.

VS MATCHUP: P.A.O.K. Thessaloniki – Levadeiakos COMPETITION: Superleague – Round 29 DATE: 21-Apr-2019 TIME: 19:00 EEST (16:00 UTC, 11:00 CDT, 02:00 AEST next day) CITY/STADIUM: Thessaloniki - Toumba Stadium (Capacity: 28,703) REFEREES: Thanasis Tzilos (Larisa) - Dimitris Gagas (Larisa), Stavros Sipkas (Samos) TELEVISION: Novasport 1 (Greece, Cyprus, Albania), Sport Plus (USA. Canada, Australia), PAOK TV (Worldwide except Greece, Cyprus, Albania) P.A.O.K. vs. Levadeiakos history: Superleague 2017-2018: 5:0 (Campos 2, Prijovic 2, Matos) - Attendance: 12,012 2016-2017: 3:0 (Pereyra 2, Matos) - Attendance: 4,179 2015-2016: 2:0 (Leovac, Mak) - Attendance: No fans 2014-2015: 1:0 (Papadopoulos) - Attendance: 5,658 2013-2014: 3:0 (Katsikas, Tziolis, Athanasiadis) - Attendance: 9,020 2012-2013: 1:0 (Lino) - Attendance: 6,045 2011-2012: 3:1 (Athanasiadis 2, Ivic) - Attendance: 9,933 2009-2010: 3:0 (Vieirinha, Filomeno, Koutsianikoulis) - Attendance: 11,934 2008-2009: 3:1 (Muslimovic 2, Bakayoko) - Attendance: 13,973 2007-2008: 1:0 (Lakis) - Attendance: 7,297 Alpha Ethniki (Professional) 2005-2006: 3:1 (Salpiggidis 2, Giasemis) - Attendance: 4,011 1994-1995: 0:0 - Attendance: 9.243 1990-1991: 2:3 (Skartados, Anastasiadis) - Attendance: 3,720 1989-1990: 2:1 (Small 2) - Attendance: 5,100 1988-1989: 2:0 (Mitoglou-p, Fernando ) - Attendance: 4,849 1987-1988: 4:1 (Bannon 3, Borbokis) - Attendance: 10,259 GAMES: 16 WINS: 14 TIES: 1 LOSSES: 1

Vieirinha will lose 8 months. That means he will be available for the second half of the next season (November/December return). And even then he will not be the same player he used to be. I expect that to be his last season with PAOK as a player. This drastically changes the next season transfer strategy.

Not only that. 99% of Tripolitsiotes in Chicago support either AEK and Olympiakos.

Karelis almost won the game for us.

1:1 final score. Still unbeaten.

Karelia in.

Jaba in for Oliveira.

Swiderski so close. Got to put Jaba in.

1:1

Vieirinha type goal.

Pelkas 1:0

0:0 halftime. Should have had at least one goal.

Giannoulias in for the captain. Hope it's not serious.

Big chance by Limnios

Pelkas and Bieswar with good chances.

Henrique is signed until June 2020, but a most likely scenario was that he would be loaned out again. Here is my lineup: ----------------- Paschalakis ------------------- Matos - Varela - Crespo - Giannoulis --------- Oliveira -------- Shakhov ----------- Limnios ------ Biseswar ------ Vieirinha ------------------- Swiderski ---------------------