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The season starts a week from today with a huge Athens derby against rivals Panathinaikos. Last
year, I received scores of emails from Greeks outside of Greece looking for ways to watch the
games. I referred most of you to Supersport's web-site, which is no longer operational this year.
Fortunately, Nova Sport's Live Streaming web-site [.
AEK finally got around to releasing their new kits today, a full month after this blog unveiled
photos of the home jersey and a full week after I ordered (and took delivery of!) the official
08-09 jersey from soccer.com. AEK's official web-site now has the home (black), away (yellow) and
third (burgundy) kits for sale [.
SuperFootball is reporting that we are again after Orlando Pirates playmaker Teko Modise. If true,
just more evidence of how disorganized and feckless our transfer strategy has been this Summer. At
any rate, there is no question we could use the young South African, but we've tried to sign him
before and failed, [.
We've been a bit lax about posting lately. Mea culpa and all that. I went on a bit of a medical
safari, travelling to Munich, Germany to have football-hero Dr. Muschaweck fix my chronic
groin/pelvic pain, caused by a double sports hernia, just like DC United Captain Jaime Moreno. And
former Newcastle captain Alan Shearer.
Mohamed Kallon, a striker from Sierra Leone. Tall, fast, not too old at 28, with a natural knack
for scoring goals. He was just a few months ago being linked to Portsmouth of the English Premier
League. This is really good stuff. Imagine this guy up top with Blanco. As you can see here, he
hasn't [.
Rivaldo finaly explains, in a little more detail, how and why he abandoned AEK for the football
hinterland of Uzbekistan. A few things to note about this article. First, Bunyodkor general
director Tavakkal Kadirovich is quoted as saying the negotiations took two months. SO basically as
soon as last season was over [.
The BBC and UEFA have picked up on this transfer. As I wrote on Monday, this is a good signing
for us, much more high profile than I expected during this transfer window. Let's hope Kallon
gets match fit quickly. We could certainly use him in the derbies as well as against Getafe in
February's UEFA [.
AEK has released Mohamed Kallon, the Sierra Leonne striker who was brought in during the winter
transfer window to boost our attack. Kallon did not make much of an impact and he reportedly
clashed with former gaffer Kostenoglou. No one seems particularly upset that he is going, but
I still think its a shame.
Today we open our league campaign with an intense derby against Athens rivals Panathinaikos. If we
win, we'll breathe a sigh of relief and begin to move past a disastrous pre-season that eliminated
us from the UEFA Cup. If we lose badly, it will confirm our worst fears. Anywhere in between will
require some analysis, [.
Remember all the Modise transfer talk over the Summer? It fell through, but we never knew well. Now
Modise has spoken out on the matter: "There were a lot of complications with the deal and I
can't exactly say what was so complicated about it, but it disturbed me a little bit, knowing very
[...]
Well, we can't complain about the officiating this time; we lost this one all on our own. We
started the season in such a promising manner. Six wins, six clean sheets. I really believed we
could do it. But how far we have fallen. We are lost. We have none of the composure we had
[...]
Golden Balls is everywhere, isn't he? But the one place I thought I could be sure I would never
see Becks and Co. was at an AEK game. + = WTF?! Could this really happen? It's just a rumor
right now, but check it!
AEK have signed Argentinian Midfielder Augustin Pelletieri from Argentine football club Lanus.
SportinGreece.com has an article here
We tend to follow certain former AEK players on this blog, for a variety of reasons.
Sometimes, like with Papastathopoulos, we follow them because they are a club-produced talent
that gets recruited by a bigger team in a bigger country. Sometimes, as with Dellas and
Lyberopoulos, we follow them because they were AEK institutions.
This shot was taken in a sports shop in Italy:
AEK ended their second friendly of the preseason against German Second Division team Greuther
Furth in a 2-2 draw. AEK went down early on in the first minute and by the end of the scond half
they were down 0-2. Two goals however, in the 83rd and 85th minutes of the game allowed AEK to
catch [...]
We play Larissa F.C. tomorrow, Saturday, February 9th, at 9:45 am East Coast Time. I am very
nervous about this match, for the following reasons. First, Larissa are no push-overs. They
won the Greek Cup last year and had a okay run in this year's UEFA Cup, defeating Blackburn of the
EPL in the first round before losing [.
Today's game against Skoda Xanthi was called off due to a snow storm currently hammering Greece.
Press reports on the freak snow storm here and here.
This is just too damn weird. There has been no announcement from the club. But earlier this week, I
ordered the "08/09 AEK Home Jersey" from Soccer.com. The picture on that site showed the
black Puma jersey that we have posted photos of on this blog earlier this month but with no [...]
I have no words. This ship is sinking. Report here.
First Cesar, then Lybe, then Dellas and now Rivaldo. Whatever else you might think, AEK is looking
younger and younger! Seriously, what on earth is going on at AEK? We've had tremendous turn-over
this Summer. Even our Chairman has announced his intention of departing in May of 09. This kind of
instability [.
AEK ended their second friendly of the weekend with a 3-0 win. Panagiotis Lagos, Ismael Blanco, and
Panagiotis Zorbas scored. AEK next weekend play PAOK in Thessaloniki.
Olympiacos have appealed their 1-0 defeat to Apollon Kalamarias on Sunday, claiming that striker
Roman Wallner was not eligible: According to FIFA regulations, a footballer is not allowed to play
for up to two different clubs the same season. Olympiacos believe that they can take advantage of
this rule and claim the three points that will see [.
After multiple requests, here ya go: Arruabarrena to Kallon to Blanco for the equalizer. Good
stuff. There's hope for us yet.
The latest reports have Papastathopoulos, the 20 year old rising star, moving to Genoa (10th
in Serie A). This is hardly surprising as he has been rumored to be moving to a bigger club for
more than a year now. More surprising is the news that Kyrgiakos is set to be his replacement.
Kygriakos is pure [.
That seems to be the question on fans' minds these days. And there is no simple answer. A
quick look at the transfer market helps illustrate this question. Panathinaikos, for example,
made several multi-million dollar signings in the Summer such as star midfielder Marcelo Mattos and
are now bolstering their squad even further with the likes of [.
One of our sources in Greece just wrote in with the following update: The Court of Arbitration for
Sport held its hearing today and it lasted 9 hours. Kalamaria and Olympiakos were there with their
lawyers. AEK and PAO were there but were not allowed to intervene. If I understood correctly, Oly
objected to having [.
AEK striker Michalis Pavlis helped Greece's Under-19 team to a 1-1 draw with Italy for the first
games of the group stages. Pavlis put Greece up fairly early on and it looked like Greece were
going to start the group stages with three points but the referee awarded Italy a penalty
in the 89th minute which they [.
The young and talented Greek defender Sokratis Papastathopoulos has signed for Genoa, a team in
Italy which currently plays in the Serie A. Many people have been expecting the move for a while
but it was finalized just last night. The defender had been previously linked with Wigan but
nothing ever came through with that [.
Back in January, I let you all know that though we don't normally post non-AEK-related Greek League
news, I would make an exception for yanks in Greece stories and other news bits that were just too
weird to go un-commented upon. So, eight months ago, I posted the Mathis to Ergotelis
bizareneess (I got hundreds [.
I know I said we should just pretend this never happened, but then I saw a statistic showing we had
the majority of possession. I also found some video clips that I think are worth sharing:
That isn't a horrible performance, is it? Sure, we lost. But the offense showed some
really nice one-touch passing.
Greece beat Finland2-1. UEFA has the report. AEK's new call-ups, Lagos and Papastathopoulos,
played both friendlies this week, which is a good sign for them. They are also being credited as
two of the best players on the pitch in yesterday's game. Also, the USA drew 2-2with Mexico. I
watched the game, but I'm not going [.
After a six week break, the next round of fixtures for the final group of 32 are fast approaching.
UEFA, in an article detailing new player registrations, had this to say about AEK and fellow Greek
club Panathinaikos: "Greek teams could also emerge as forces to be reckoned with – Mohamed Kallon
and Panagiotis Lagos have [.
How many days late with this am I? I guess just two. We played Xanthi Wednesday, lined up like
this: Kallon Blanco Rivaldo Lagos Edinho Kafes Bourbos Pliatsikas Papastathopoulos Dellas Macho And
though we didn't completely dominate the entire match, we played a better brand of football
overall.
We are currently being linked to Gill Swerts.
ESPN here, and here is an AFP article with Rivaldo asking the fans' forgiveness but saying,
esstially, money talks, bullsh-t walks... Goal.com coverage here, and here the British paper the
Daily Mail rightly points out the irony in previously passing up stings at Tottenham and Bolton
only to end up at that footballing mecca knows as Uzbekistan.
Good stuff here from the gaffer on his preferred 4-3-3 system, his relationship with the club
administration and the difficulty of a new coach getting the players to understand his philosophy.
AEK fans are as familiar as any Greek fans with the suspicious way decisions are made (or not made,
or unmade) by the EPO (the Greek FA). Last year, as has been well-documented on this blog,
Olympiacos was able to take the League Championship from AEK through a shady court maneuver
(essentially Oly argued that [.
AEK, having just dismissed coach Lorenzo Serra Ferrer, face Spanish-side Getafe tomorrow in the
UEFA Cup. AEK Assistant manager Nikos Kostenoglou will take over the team temporarily and try to
end AEK's mid-season slide with an emphatic win in Athens. Getafe defender David Belenguer claimed
in an interview today that Getafe's main goal will be to [.
The latest rumor to emerge is that AEK is very close to signing Skoda Xanthi's 22 year old
defensive midfielder Antonis Rikka. Rikka is an international with the Greek U-21 squad, was born
in France and started his football career in Marseille's junior team. During the summer of 2006 he
came to Greece to play for Skoda Xanthi, but during [.
