This is funny:
https://7a0.com.br/en
You can pick your all time World Cup team through a randmeer and it will simulate matches against other (great) teams from the past.
I tried to remember the past World Cups I saw in the early days and PAOK-players that participated. Wikipedia gave me confirmation:
Players who belonged at the time of the World Cup to our roster:
Magdy Tolba - WC 1990 - Egypt
Alexis Alexiou - WC 1994 - Greece
Future or past PAOK players at the time of the World Cup:
Miroslav Stoch - WC 2010 - Slovakia
Sotiris Ninis - WC 2010 - Greece
Sverrir Ingason - WC 2018 - Iceland
Ibrahim Hossam - WC 1990 - Egypt
Hossam Hassan - WC 1990 - Egypt
Giotis Tsalouchidis - WC 1994 - Greece
Pablo Garcia - WC 2002 - Uruguay
There could be more players. Or maybe not. Best is not to think about it and then suddenly a name comes to mind.
There are more players. I remember Prijovic playing for Serbia at the 2018 WC while being a PAOK-player.
Glykos was subbed in at the 2014 WC when the first keeper (don't know his name) was injured. He was at PAOK at that time.
Swiderski played in the 2022 WC just after he left us for the States.
Your friend Christodoulopoulos was for sure.
I have to dig in my brain. And maybe the internet. There must be more players. I remember the squad lists in "Voetbal International" mentioning PAOK as the current club. Not only in the Greek National team.
Apparently Panathinaïkos tried to get us kicked out of the hotel and playing grounds as their choice did not meet their standards and ours were/are much better. The brave Dutch declined.
Marios Oikonomou died today at the age of only 33 after being hit by a car.
Oikonomou started his career at the local Club, PAS Ioannina. He also played in Italy and Denmark.
Oikonomou was capped 6 times for the Ethiniki.
Marios Oikonomou passed away today after being hit by a car on May 23rd while driving his motorbike in his hometown Ioannina.
He was capped 6 times for the Ethniki.
R.I.P., Marie!
2026 wrapup:
Tsitsipas was eliminated in R2. He won in R1 against Frenchman Alexandre Müller who retired in set 2. In R2 Stefanos was defeated in four sets by Italian Matteo Arnaldi.
Sakkari reached R3. She defeated #12 seed Linda Nosková (Czechia) in two sets. In R2 she met qualifier Claire Liu (USA) and won in three sets. Maria was stopped by Polish Maja Chwalinska in three sets.
It gets easier as the supposed weaker teams drop from the Champions League to the Europa League. Like Górnik Zabrze from CL Q2 to EL Q3 and the likes of Borac Banja Luka and Vikingur from CL Q3 to EL PO.
Every club receives about 10K a day for internationals at the WC. Starting the day they started their duties till the day of elimination.
Last group matches are June 25th (Mexico/Sanchez) and June 27th (Ghana/Baba). So this means a minimum of about 600K for the both of them.
Second and last game of the post season against a very young Italian squad that needs rebuilding after missing the World Cup for the third consecutive time.