Hellas futebol

[Covenant]

Faliro, what you think about Cypriot Championship?

What happened to APOEL?

It seems the Cypriots and Greeks are going to have face reality and realise the island the will not be unified. Erdogan said this week he is seeking a two state outcome. Therefore, I would be happy to allow APEOL and one other into the Greek championship as happened in the 70s.

Omonia - > APOEL.

This season is being awful to APOEL.

[Faliro]

Faliro, what you think about Cypriot Championship?

What happened to APOEL?

It seems the Cypriots and Greeks are going to have face reality and realise the island the will not be unified. Erdogan said this week he is seeking a two state outcome. Therefore, I would be happy to allow APEOL and one other into the Greek championship as happened in the 70s.

Omonia - > APOEL.

This season is being awful to APOEL.

I don't follow those guys but I do know APOEL is the most successful Cyrpiot club and usually over performs in the CL and Europa League. I know they are the most rightwing club in Cyprus and adore Greece.  GPS stadium also appears to be excellent venue. I think it would be curious to see them in the SL. I doubt it would happen again though. Omonia I dont know much about.

[Covenant]

https://youtu.be/NsxIv0JzD9o

[Faliro]

https://youtu.be/NsxIv0JzD9o

Yes, another Olympiacos hit piece.. no evidence.. just the usual baseless accusations..

[Faliro]

[Calcio]

Volos about to be sold to argentinians.

Who owns them? I thought it was the district(?)?

[Faliro]

Volos about to be sold to argentinians.

Who owns them? I thought it was the district(?)?

What a question. You may as well have asked me where Alexander the Great's body is.

Beos - mayor of Volos and former president of Olympiakos Volos, who went to prison for match fixing and bribery and was banned from any football activities... (that went well..  ) clearly controls FC Volos and is president of the club. Remember Volos was not started as a completely new entity.. that would be too simple.. After negotiations failed to unite Niki Volou and Olympiakos Volou - Beos tried a new tactic.. The club now known as NPS VOLOS was originally this club: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAS_Pydna_Kitros_F.C.  Who knows, maybe the president of that club owns a percentage of Volos? Beos, while mayor of Volos..  managed to convince the president of Pynda Kitros to relocate to Volos and change the name.

https://www.sportime.gr/nps-volos/beos-sintoma-tha-po-ante-gia/

This Latin Fund... sounds very suspicious.. Sure the team has potential.. but with no football specific stadium (although the Panthessaliko Stadium is a beautiful piece of architecture) - no real infrastructure - youth teams etc.. just some good players and a good coach.. seems a strange deal. I suspect the real owner of Volos could be someone like Savvidis.. After all, Beos offering to sell Douvikas (an excellent young striker) to PAOK for 1.4 million is like me selling you a Porsche 911 foe 4000 euros. Douvikas is worth at least 5 million. That offer tells you a lot..

https://www.sportime.gr/transfer_gossip/transfer-gossip-douvikas-afto-ine-to-apistefto-poso-pou-zitise-o-volos-apo-ton-paok-gia-ton-nearo-star/

Beos says he will be happy to say goodbye to NPS Volos and simply be a fan.. I think Beos is criminally minded but has an extremely high IQ. This was always about making money.

[Calcio]

Volos about to be sold to argentinians.

Who owns them? I thought it was the district(?)?

So what you are saying, is, Volos will be another memory in Hellas football in some 5 years time.

[Faliro]

Volos about to be sold to argentinians.

Who owns them? I thought it was the district(?)?

So what you are saying, is, Volos will be another memory in Hellas football in some 5 years time.

Depends. I remember Olympiakos Volou well. Very similar to NPS. All attack. All Argentinians/ South Americans. Constantly taking down bigger opponents with high scores. The only way they were ever going to get relegated was through an off the pitch judgement which is what took them down. Without Beos (if it is him) making the signings of eclectic players like Douvikas, Ninis, Perea and Reinstra etc.. I am not sure what will happen to them. It is like Asteras - since they came out of no where to get to the Super League there has been someone at the club (Bakos himself perhaps?) constantly getting good players. Aris also have that edge and style but with more fans than the others combined.

If Volos gets new owners who don't take orders from whoever built Olympiakos Volou and NPS - their future is uncertain. Teams built around attack like Aris, Olympiakos Volou, Kavala, Asteras, NPS are safe as long as they keep there opaque but successful scouting/ agent network in play. Panathinaikos has always been about developing their own players, even before that became trendy. AEK attempts to promote some youth but usually falls back on signings. PAOK.. fuck knows.. they steal all the other youth players from everyone else in northern Greece. Teams like Aris - pure scouting.

Here is a taste of what Olympiakos Volou looked like when they were in the super league.. pure attack under that exceptionally underated coach Tsolis.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yK5KPg921Qk

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ntetwo_4PCc

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GlhThOQGeTQ



Of course they beat almost anyone but still had to throw games vs PAOK.. that is probably how they paid their players.

[Faliro]

The 25th March marked exactly 200 years since the beginning of the Greek Revolution that resulted in the Ottomans losing southern Greece and the creation of the modern Greek state.



Asteras and APOEL had the brains to market this moment. Superb kits:






https://www.gazzetta.gr/football/superleague/article/1577668/i-epeteiaki-fanela-toy-astera-einai-gemati-ellada-pic?fbclid=IwAR1H1e206gUKs7SDQ2Vjg6uKriuBs7m-itAUSkr26r3QoAmCIc01TMzJSOs

[Covenant]

APOEL? Why?

[Faliro]

APOEL? Why?

I would say around 60% of Greek Cypriots see themselves as Greek Greek as opposed to 'Greek Cypriot' or Cypriot.. Many Greeks did emigrate to Cyprus over the centuries and Cypriots are actually related genetically to Arcadians for some reason, they even have parts of the Arcadian dialect. Arcadia is the region where Tripoli is based.

In the 50s the Cypriots made a massive push to unify with Greece. Sadly the British who wanted to keep their bases on the island stopped this 'Enosis' ('union' with Greece) The referendum at the time showed 97% of the Greek population of Cyprus wanted to join with Greece. There was bloodshed as result. There were revolts before that as well to join with Greece:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1931_Cyprus_revolt

Now APOEL is fiercely pro Greek as their name suggests: Athletikos Podosferikos Omilos Ellinon Lefkosias, literally "Athletic Football Club of Greeks of Nicosia" The club was not only founded for football - but also to push the idea of Enosis. So it makes sense they would share this shirt with Asteras.


Who knows, one day APOEL may play in the Greek Super League again like they did in the 70s.

[Faliro]

Volos about to be sold to argentinians.

Seems the deal fell through:

https://sportdog.gr/sports/podosfairo/article/640503/apisteyto-ki-omws-ellhniko-trelh-istoria-me-mpeo-kai-ta-xrhmata-twn-ependytwn-gia-ton-bolo

[Covenant]

Classe pura de mais um discípulo!

Miguel Cardoso misses Greece and their crazyness.

[Faliro]

Classe pura de mais um discípulo!

Miguel Cardoso misses Greece and their crazyness.

Poor guy having to coach AEK.. mind you, their new stadium is starting to look pretty nice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvah-wuStvE