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Do not know if this is just a joke but according to ekathimerini.com Greece’s athletics team for this month’s European Games in Belarus will fly there in the prime minister’s government jet, after sports officials couldn’t find seats on commercial flights for them. The country’s track and field federation, Segas, said Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras placed the plane at its disposal Thursday, shortly after it had announced its withdrawal from the event due to the ticket problem. Segas says 15 Greek track-and-field athletes are due to take part in the June 21-30 games in Minsk.

Tosca played the whole game against Norway in the qualifier for euro 2020. After trailing 2-0 Romania managed to draw 2-2. Though no longer a PAOKtzis, Priojivic started against Ukraine and got hammered: 5-0! He was subbed out in 53'.

Lucas Perez is moving from West Ham United to Spanish side Alaves for only 2.5 mil (moved to Arsenal for 20 mil and brought us 6 mil !!!) He signed for three years.

Savvidis invested another 15,2 mill euro’s in our club. According to reports we will not get in difficulties concerning Financial Fair Play.

Season tickets will be available from June 18th if you buy them on internet. From July 1st tickets are sold at the offices of PAOK. The price of the season tickets increase because PAOK thinks it will be in the GS of either CL or EL and because there will be more games in the SL with the play-offs.

More friendlies are annuonced. The schedule so far is now: July 3, TBA: PAOK - AZ Alkmaar (WWNA) July 6, TBA: PAOK - FC Nordsjælland (WWNA) July 9, 20:00 EEST: PAOK - PEC Zwolle (USV Nieuwleusen) July 12, 19:00 EEST: PAOK - Universitatea Cluj (Cluj Arena) July 20, TBA: PAOK - Anderlecht (TBA) July 24, TBA: PAOK - ?? (TBA) July 27, morning: PAOK - Al Tawon (TBA) July 27, afternoon: PAOK - Fortuna Sittard (TBA)

Blackhawk, you beat me to it!

Two other friendlies are announced: Wednesday July 3rd against AZ (Alkmaar), k.o. TBA, at vv WWNA, Wieselsedwarsweg 28, (7345 AB) Wenum Wiesel (near Apeldoorn); Saturday July 6th against Nordsjaelland (from Denmark), k.o. TBA, also at vv WWNA, Wieselsedwarsweg 28, (7345 AB) Wenum Wiesel.

Empoli (relegated to Serie B) has exercised the right to buy Nikolaou. Nikolaou signed a contract till the summer of 2023 for a undisclosed fee.

And so we ended on #64 after this season in the UEFA 5-year clubranking with 23,500 points. Next year we start at #68 with 18,500 points. As we are guaranteed to reach the play-offs in EL we will collect 1,500 points for sure. But others in our neighbourhood like Galatasaray will collect 4,000 points for sure as they have a spot in GS CL.

New promoted SC Dnipro-1 of Ukraine (and only founded in 2017) is probably the next club for Shakhov if he does not find a club in Europe that fits him best or if he is not renewing at us.

No rematch for Tsitsipas as he was eliminated by Wawrinka in 5 sets: 7-6, 5-7, 6-4, 3-6, 8-6. But this was his best result ever at Roland Garros and the best result for any Greek.

José Antonio Reyes died today in a carcrash at the age of 35. The Spaniard holds the record of 5 EL-wins (2 with Atletico, 3 with Sevilla).

Next opponent is Swiss Stan Wawrinka.

https://gameofthepeople.com/2019/05/31/europes-most-prolific-teams/ And we are on that list!

Here one can find all confirmed transfers: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Greek_football_transfers_summer_2019

Watched some parts of the Swedish Cupfinal Häcken - Eskilstuna (3-0) . Alexander Faltsetas scored the openingsgoal. Sounded Greek to me dispite the English version of his Christian name. So I checked good old wikipedia. And he appears to be a PAOK-fan: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Faltsetas

Not at all. Just good to see that a club (in Greece!) sells this kind of diarkias when the old season officialy is still to be finished according to UEFA (and some clubs have to play to avoid relegation or gain an European ticket). Are you confusing me with Yiankos perhaps?

Wow, you sold over 2,500 diarkias already! It isn’t even June. http://www.metrosport.gr/article/enimerosi-tis-pae-aris-gia-ta-diarkias

I know. I remembered you wrote about her during the Olympics, so I thought it was worthwile to mention here.

Greek Olympic and world champion Anna Korakaki on Wednesday claimed the top spot in the 10-meter air pistol women's final at the ISSF World Cup Rifle/Pistol, held in Munich from May 24-31. Korakaki scored a total of 241.4 points to secure the gold medal in her category. China's Qian Wei came in second with 239.6 points and Korea's Korean Kim Minjung won bronze with 220.8.

Tsitsipas won with some difficulties: 4-6, 6-0, 6-3 and 7-5. His next opponent in R3 is the winner of Carballes-Krajinovic.

Sakkari hammered Tatishvili: 6-0, 6-1. Next opponent Katerina Siniakova from the Czech Republic.

Snap elections in Greece may take place on July 7 instead of June 30 as a result of nationwide university entrance exams, which will be running from June 6 to July 2. After the government's defeat in European Parliament elections last Sunday, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said he would ask President Prokopis Pavlopoulos to start the process of calling early general elections immediately after the runoffs for local and regional government this weekend. Sources on Monday said that Pavlopoulos has already contacted opposition New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis to brief him on the procedure that needs to be followed. Initial reports on Monday had put the date of the general elections at June 30, though it now seems that this will need to be extended by a week, possibly as a result of the fact that the overwhelming majority of polling stations are set up at schools, which will be busy conducing exams. Source: ekathimerini.com