PAOK International Players (National Teams)

[Dutch Eagle]

Warda just subbed in.

[Blackhawk]

Skibbe called up the players for the friendly against Saudi Arabia in Seville on May 15. Five PAOK players were called up for the game. Skibbe failed to call up Paschalakis which once again shows that not the best players are called up to the national team.

PAOK players called up:

Limnios, Koulouris, Pelkas, Chatziisaias, Giannoulis

[pash]

Pashalakis having the second best season after Pelkas in that list (and that's debatable). Unreal that he wasn't called up.

[SydneyPAOK]

Maybe Skibbe's in depth research  revealed that Paschalakis conceded 6 goals in toumba against aek and olympiakos therefore didnt pick him ?

[Bananas]

Paschalakis not getting called up should bother me.

[Nea Bafra]

3 hours ago, Bananas said:

Paschalakis not getting called up should bother me.

but it doesn't

[Blackhawk]

What bothers me is that other PAOK players got called up. Apparently Paschalakis does not have an agent that cooperates with EPO. It's that simple.

[Yiankos]

Ας πάρει τον Μπάρκα και τον Τσιντώτα. Τον Λημνιό τι είδε και τον πήρε;

[Bananas]

Better for Paschalakis.  The NT culture is toxic.  I only hope he doesn't take it to heart.

[Yiankos]

Εντάξει ρε παιδιά... 29 χρονών ο Πασχαλάκης και έχει παίξει 30 ματς στη ζωή του. Εγώ λέω να βάλει το κεφάλι κάτω και να δουλέψει και να γίνει καλύτερος. Μαλακίες μη λέμε, αν φύγει από τον ΠΑΟΚ που θα πάει; Σε καμιά Ξάνθη. Να γίνει καλύτερος και να αναγκάσει και τον Σκίμπε να τον πάρει στην Εθνική. Να κατεβάσει τα ρολά στο ΟΑΚΑ το Σάββατο και να σηκώσουμε το Κυπελλάκι!

[Blackhawk]

Four PAOK players played in the disaster against Saudi Arabia today.

Giannoulis, Limnios and Pelkas started the game. Giannoulis got red-carded in the first half. Limnios played for 45 minutes and Pelkas for 60 minutes. Koulouris came in the 60th minute and hit the post late in the game when the score was 1:0.

[Dutch Eagle]

Prijovic is pre-selected by the Serbia-coach for the 2018 WC. He is just one of three attackers that got a call-up. Have to mention that the current squad is 27 players. 4 must be cutted. Normally he will go to Russia, unless their coach has a 6-4-0 line-up in mind.

[Dutch Eagle]

Warda is in the 29-man preliminary squad of Egypt.

[Nea Bafra]

Prijovic is in the final squad to go to the world cup

[Dutch Eagle]

Warda also made the final squad for the WC in Russia.

[pash]

Prijovic not yet in their friendly vs Chile, 70 minutes in. I forget how stacked Serbia's team is, I wonder how much time he'll get at the cup

[Nea Bafra]

7 hours ago, pash said:

Prijovic not yet in their friendly vs Chile, 70 minutes in. I forget how stacked Serbia's team is, I wonder how much time he'll get at the cup

depends if mitrovic has a brain explosion and kicks his own goalkeeper in the nuts [this is not as unlikely as it seems unfortunately]

[Bananas]

A part of me wants Prijovic to get no game time to increase the chances of him staying with us next season.  And then there's that part of me that hopes he just kills it.

[Yiankos]

Να παίξει ο άνθρωπος και αν κάποιος δώσει 10 μύρια καλώς να φύγει. Είναι μεγάλη υπόθεση να πουλάς παίχτες.

[Bananas]

Not even for 10 million I don't want to sell Prijovic!  I hope he stays at PAOK for another 3 seasons and we get one more striker of similar quality.  For too long we have suffered with strikers of not enough quality.

We hit the jackpot with Prijovic.  We were lucky he came from a league no one really pays attention to and he hadn't "clicked" yet.  If Prijovic was at the level he is now back then I don't believe we would've been able to get him because other clubs would've swooped in.

Anyway we'll see what happens.

[Blackhawk]

With Prijovic and Warda going to Russia this will make it 14 active PAOK players taking part in the World Cup history. 

Here is the list of PAOK players that took part in the World Cup competition: 

1990 - ITALY

Magdi Tolba - Egypt
2 games: Holland 1:1, Ireland 0:0

1994 - USA

Alexis Alexiou - Greece
1 game: Nigeria 0:2

2002 - Japan/South Korea

Ifeani Udese - Nigeria
2 games: England 0:0, Sweden 1:2 

2010 - South Africa

Kostas Chalkias - Greece
did not play

Stelios Malezas - Greece
did not play

Pablo Contreras - Chile
2 games: Honduras 1:0, Brazil 0:3

2014 - Brazil

Georgios Tzavellas - Greece
did not play

Panagiotis Glykos - Greece
1 game: Ivory Coast 2:1

Kostas Katsouranis - Greece
3 games: Colombia 0:3, Japan 0:0, Costa Rica 1:1

Dimitris Salpiggidis - Greece
4 games: Colombia 0:3, Japan 0:0, Ivory Coast 2:1, Costa Rica 1:1

Alexandros Tziolis - Greece
did not play

Charles Itandje - Cameroon
3 games: Mexico 0:1, Coatia 0:4, Brazil 1:4

2018 - Russia

Aleksandr Prijovic - Serbia
Amr Warda - Egypt

[Dutch Eagle]

Amr Warda in the starting lineup for Egypt against Belgium.Trailing 2-0 at HT. 

Shikabala - remember him?! - is on the bench.

[Bananas]

Shikabala ha ha.  Isn't he like 50 years old now ?

[pash]

Warda got subbed out late in the second half. He was....okay. A couple of decent runs, but very poor passing in the first half. Not their worst player.

[paokarag4]

He worked hard, as did the whole of the Egyptian team and deserved a result but as you said his passing was particularly poor. 

Egypt no doubt missed Salah, when they would brake they had no conviction or pace. There was a goal or two their to be had against a poor Uruguay had Mo been playing