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I'm positive about the VAR. Only thing is that the fans should be informed better about what is going on. Rugby has a lot of experience with the VAR. There the main ref decides what happens and he explains what he is doing and what his dicision will be if this or that observation is made

Selected for the game against Lamia are only Greek players and Kace who is living already 100 years in Greece: Σιαμπάνη , Μελίσσα , Κωνσταντινίδη , Πούγγουρα , Κάτσε , Λημνιός , Πέλκα , Αθανασιάδη , Κουλούρη , Δημητριάδη , Δημητρίου , Χατζηδίμπα, Τζοβάρα, Τσαούση και Γκαργκαλατζίδη.

Biseswar is injured. Again. Leovac is unjured too. Both will miss the friendlies of today and tomorrow.

First friendly yesterday as warmup for the Eurobasket: Greece trashed Roumania with 106-48. Topscorer Papanikolaou with 17 points.

Why not, Niko?! But it's not necesarry to beat them. First four advance. But it would be wise not to end as fourth in the group as you have to face #1 from another group.

Jairo is going on loan to Moldovian side Sheriff Tiraspol (and not to Partizan).

Last year everything was included. And the year before that.

Looks like Crespo got some injury. He is out for the friendlies.

I think the board / coaches did good to sign Paschalakis. Every sub costs money but it can make the difference. Like in The Netherlands last year. Feyenoord had a strong back-up-keeper and when the first keeper got injured just before the start of the season he took his place in the goal. At the end Feyenoord won the title. Thanks to his some of his saves.

She is the first Greek woman that is European, World and Olympic Champion at the same time. Kostas Kenteris was the only Greek male to achieve this.

GIF Sundsvall - Östersund 1-1 (goal Darijan Bojanic). Östersund now have 28 points in 18 games. They dropped at #6 with 16 teams in the Allsvenskan. They could even drop another place if IFK Norrköping wins their 18th game this season tomorrow.

Cañas is injured (hence his substition against Olimpik). He is expected to have recovered when we play the Swedes at home.

Alexandros Paschalakis of PAS Giannina is close to sign for us. He will be the stand-in for Rey until Glykos returns. We don't need to pay a fee. Now, how do we get rid of Brkic???

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Östersunds FK is currently 5th in the Swedish Allsvenskan with 27 points in 17 games (GD +3). Sunday they play away at 13th placed GIF Sundsvall. Some trivia about Östersund: * They are the most northern club at the highest level in Sweden; * They play on artificial turf (has our club ever played an official game on this could of ground?; * In their roster is one former PAOKtzis: Sotiris Papagiannopoulos.

Well maybe it is not exactly 100 years ago...... We had the Julian calender that days. After the Gregorian calender was introduced it suddenly was August 18th. Same happend with the Russian October Revolution. They remember it overthere on November 7th nowadays.......

Her is the "parakamera" from Olimpik('s point of view):

And counting. 9,030 season tickets so far.

Today is exactly 100 years ago that a great part of Thessaloniki's centre was destroyed by fire.

Saw in the Dutch media that defender Mattias Johansson of AZ Alkmaar signed a three year contract at Pana. He played 5,5 years at AZ (129 games, 6 goals). Not a bad player, but he works hard. Has a lot of injuries and suspencions as I recall. Hence the 129 games where AZ plays mostly 50+ games a year.

After yesterday's game these are our alltime scorers in Europe: Αναλυτικά η λίστα των «ευρωπαίων» σκόρερ του Δικεφάλου: 20 γκολ: Αθανασιάδης 14 γκολ: Σαλπιγγίδης 11 γκολ: Μακ 10 γκολ: Γιασεμάκης 8 γκολ: Βιεϊρίνια 6 γκολ: Φραντζέσκος, Σαράφης 5 γκολ: Κωνσταντινίδης, Μαραγκός, Δημόπουλος 4 γκολ: Οκκάς, Λουτσιάνο, Κωστίκος, Σκαρτάδος, Ίβιτς, Ροντρίγκεζ 3 γκολ: Ασλανίδης, Τερζανίδης, Παρίδης, Κερμανίδης, Ζαγοράκης, Γεωργιάδης, Φρούσος, Καμπς, Μουσλίμοβιτς, Φωτάκης, Λούκας, Πέλκας 2 γκολ: Κούδας, Αναστασιάδης, Βόκολος, Ολιβάρεζ, Σάμπρι, Ναλιτζής Λίνο, Μάρτενς, Περέιρα, Κάμπος, Κίτσιου 1 γκολ: Πέλλιος, Ορφανός Δαμανάκης, Γεωργόπουλος, Βασιλάκος. Μπορμπόκης, Βρύζας, Ζουμπούλης, Βαλέντσια, Κατσαμπής. Καφές, Ουντέζε, Κουκιέλκα, Κουτσόπουλος, Χασιώτης, Μάρκος, Κούτσης, Καραδήμος, Καρυπίδης, Χριστοδουλόπουλος, Μαλεζάς, Γκαρσία, Μπαλάφας, Λάζαρ, Γεωργιάδης, Κατσικάς, Ρομπέρ, Νέτσιντ, Στοχ, Κατσουράνης, Βούκιτς, Βίτορ, Νίνης, Πόζογλου, Παπαδόπουλος, Τζανδάρης, Σάκχοφ, Κρέσπο, Τζαβέλλας, Μάτος, Τσίμιροτ, Ενρίκε

It will be against Club Brugge. Second game will be in Athens (Unless UEFA changes this for whatever reason).

Just realised that this is the first time we have an opponent from Sweden in European comeptitions. Pity that I will be back in The Netherlands when we play them in Toumba.