Dutch Eagle

https://tv.paokfc.gr/video/paok-panionios

Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Willem II has added two Greek youngster to their roster. Marios Vrousai from Olympiakos and Vangelis Pavlidis from VfL Bochum (Germany). Both players are Greek Youth-internationals and will be playing on loan-basis in The Netherlands.

Expensive? Maybe, maybe not, but I like the idea of bringing younger players of 24/25 with experience at World Cups instead of 30+ like we used to. The latter have no transfer value after 3 years. How many players left us without even a fee? Too much players and thus more expensive. Bring those kind of guys. They bring us to another level and then sell them to a club that pays 10 mil. Win-win-situation.

In Dutch maths I count 3.5 Greeks. Or is one of Paschalakis, Kitsiou and Limnios suddenly from another country? In the lineup Blackhawk there are 3.5 too. But on a serious level. Teams with more than a few homegrown players are rare these days. Players with two passports, EU-rules that allow a citizen to work (read: play football) in all the other EU-members without permits or whatsoever. General globalisation. Arsenal has played games against Spanish opponents with more Spaniards then the Spanish team. If you can not afford foreigners you stick to players from your country. On another global forum there is a guy “bragging” every week that Pana again played with x Greek players. We know that this has nothing to do with patriotism or willing to lift the level of Greek players or a new adapted vision. They to this because the are ordered to and are on short rations.

Great result for Stefanos. He can challenge Roger now. Difficult but not impossible. He has beaten a lot of top 10 players last year. Even 4 of them in just one week in Toronto. And in the Hopman Cup he just lost with two tie-breaks against Federer and beated him with Sakkari in the mixed doubles. Sakkari’s opponent is strong. I incidentally saw her last week playing the final in Hobart. No need to be ashamed of this result. On the contrary: this must give confidence.

Wow, it looks like Josip heard the best joke ever just before taking that photo.

MOL Vidi was interested in Shakhov but Lucescu put a veto on it.

Sidiropoulos is appointed as the ref.

A great vid indeed. What surprises me is that the goal of the Greek philosophers is clear off side. One would think that the guys from Monty Python, coming from the birthplace of football, would have made another chapter in arguing about that.

A bizar start for Garry Mendes Rodrigues at Al Ittahad. He must be the first player ever that went to a new club and was already sent of before even playing a second for that club. What happened? He was warming up and got booked because he did that at the wrong place according to the ref. He reacted and got his second yellow. Hahahaha. I think he will be mentioned in the Guinness Book of Records soon.

Tsitsipas in round 3 after beating Troicki 6-3, 2-6, 6-2, 7-5. Next opponent: #19 seed Nikoloz Basilasjvili from Georgia. Sakkari in round 3 after beating Sharma 6-1, 6-4. Next opponent #15 seed Ashleigh Barty, another Aussie.

Youngster Antonis Gaintanidis of our K19 extended his contract till the summer of 2022.

Prepi na echies poli dipsa gia to protathlima Christara gia na theleis na ine aprili apo tora. ?

The return of this tie will be played January 22nd 19:30 EEST in Toumba.

The 2019 tournament has started. #14 seed Tsitsipas won in the first round against Italian Matteo Berrettini: 6-7, 6-4, 6-3 and 7-6. Unseeded Maria Sakkari won her opening match against #22 seed Jelena Ostapenko from Latvia: 6-1, 3-6 and 6-2. Next opponents: Viktor Troicki, a qualifier, from Serbia for Tsitsipas. Astra Sharma, also a qualifier, from Australia for Sakkari.

Two yellows is one game suspension for sure. Don’t know how they count these cards but they were his 6th and 7th and I don’t know how many cards you are allowed before getting a suspension in 1 of the next 4 matches.

And Biseswar must be given the renewal he wants. We now his skills and he does not need to adapt to our system or club. Loved his "Messi"- ball yesterday for the 0-2.

Great result. But as Chris said we could or should have been down (3-1 and not 5-1 in my opinion) at HT. Good that we recovered from the loss in the cup with this win. +3 compared to last year when we had Prio and lost 3-2 overthere.

And almost 0-4, but the #8 of Asteras clears on the line.

0-3 after an owngoal.

Final sub: Tosca in for Biseswar.

Should have been a penalty for Asteras as Limnios touches it with his arm.

Matos second yellow and red after grabbing the ball when he was falling down thinking he was fouled.

Jaba out. Limnios in.