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Sofia Bekatourou will be the flag bearer for the opening ceremonies for the Greek Olympic team.

The basketball team failed to qualify to the Rio Olympics losing to Croatia in the semifinal game of the qualifying tournament. It's pretty much safe to assume that Greek basketball national team is no longer considered to be part of the elite of European/World basketball as far as national teams are concerned.

Apparently we will play a friendly game against Bragga in Thessaloniki. Proceeds will go for humanitarian help for the refugees.

Tzavellas did not renew his contract, but he will, since he is a close buddy with the owners son. I expect a new 3-year deal. Tziolis's contract was automatically renewed for one more season until 2017. Skondras is gone, and would not be surprise me if Glykos is gone as well. If not now than in the winter.

I think that Melissis will be loaned out and the 16-year old Siabanis will go back to U-20 team. We'll go with the Serboian as our no. 1 goalie with Glykos and Vellidis backups. Down the road (perhaps in the Janury 2017) one of them will ask to be released from contract. I hope it's Glykos.

It's official. Zeljko Brkic, the 29-year old Serbian keeper signed a 3-year deal with PAOK. He will report to Holland tomorrow to start pre-season training. We now have 5 keepers on the roster. Something has to give. Who do you think will go?

They are not exactly the same type of players. Canas plays the no. 6 position (DM), and will share this position with Tziolis. Those 2 most likely will never play together. The others (Cimirot, Charisis, Kace, Sakhov) are "oktaria" and will most likely be paired with either Tziolis or Canas in the 4-2-3-1 formation.

Well only 3 of them played, and two of them were defense men.

Final score PAOK - Silvolde 14:0 Pereyra - 3 Klaus - 3 Koulouris - 2 Pelkas - 2 Dimitriadis - 2 Korovesis - 1 Sakhov - 1

Pelkas 10:0 Klaus 11:0

Pelkas 8:0 Klaus 9:0 Lineup for 2nd half: --------------------- Siabanis ---------------------- ,Matos - Chatziisaias - Malezas - Giannoulis ------- Cimirot ----------- Dimitriadis ------------ Jairo ------------- Pelkas ----------- Mystakydis ---------------- Athanasiadis ----------------------

Once touted as the Vierinha replacement ...

Koulouris 7:0

Pereyra hat-trick

Good to have headaches like that.

Sakhov 4:0

From what Kolkas said, they play in 4th division in Holland and it shows. I just can't believe Panathinaikos was only able to beat them 2:0 couple days ago. The funny thing is that our lineup in the 2nd half will be as good as the one in 1st half, so we can expect more goals.

3:0 in 12 minutes against the Dutch pub team.

Pereyra 2:0

Koulouris 1:0

Kitsiou the captain in this game. And Pereyra taking no. 14 from Salpi.

Our first pre-season game takes place tomorrow at 19:00 GR against a 4th division Dutch team Sivolde SC.

Add to that the 1,000 season tickets that Savvidis (the son) distributed to unemployed PAOK fans and the total right now stands at 3,000.

Tomorrow Ivic decides who is going to the training camp in Holland and who stays behind. We'll get some good indications on who will need to start looking for new team to get playing time.

Until today 87 Greek athletes have qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympic Games which will take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil between August 5 - August 21, 2016. Here is a list of Greek athletes that qualified so far. There is still hope that the basketball national team will defeat Italy and Croatia in the qualifying tournament and make it to Rio as well.