Superleague
The “secret dinner” that brought nerves and smiles, anger and life to AEK
The decision of the AEK footballers to discuss around a table created a sense of optimism that the team needed to avoid “breaking it all off” this year.
The times that AEK’s football department has been shut down in the dressing rooms over the past four years to focus on the issues that led to its collapse have been numerous. Always in the presence of the respective trainer and his staff.
Half-hearted and trivial things were heard, situations without content and result were repeated. As if you knew what was going to be said before you even know it through leaks. As a result, the introduction of so-called “group therapy” is no longer even a theoretical solution.
This time the ‘Union’ players decided to leave everyone open to speak openly. Speak in their own language, tell truths. That’s what they were looking for before the “secret dinner” in Glyfada. With the promise to each other that there will not be the slightest leak, that not even half an attack will leave the area. When it happened.
Only they know what they said, in what tone, when they disagreed and how, when they argued, when they blamed each other. Perhaps this was the first time in the last four years that something spontaneous, honest and perfected together has happened!
Not everyone agreed from the start. Some disagreed with the idea, believing it would be useless again, an action that wouldn’t really help. Just that thought, however, made them understand that a distance had been created. Which between them they had to cover.
So, with the idea that there had to be some friendly clarification and an acknowledgment of the mistakes that everyone made individually, everyone was present except one, no matter who, as we don’t know the reason. Maybe he had a serious commitment.
The result was expressed in various ways
It’s worth mentioning here because there’s an annoying paraphilology surrounding Steven Cuber’s presence, and as much as it’s influenced by external factors, the Swiss has been in the front lines to carry that crowd.
Those who brought the idea to the table insisted it go ahead, agreeing on the path of “isolation” from the rest – the team’s coaches, managers and administrative staff. Petros Mandalos and Andre Simoes were equally encouraging about the situation. And finally, the “secret dinner” took place.
It turned out that this time the secrecy and obfuscation of everything that was said between them brought a result – at least original. AEK had a pulse in the match against PAS Giannina apart from pure competition.
Even Vranjes’ argument with Amrabat, which disturbed the eye, was a reaction, the expression of fear in the game itself, so that it would not “go wrong”.
Everyone’s smiles at the end of the game, the players’ hugs, Sakhof’s outburst in the dressing room where he almost cried for getting the opportunity to play and offer, Amrabat’s records when Rota received the Most Valuable award. Small individual moments that showed that there is life, my child, that there is also a desire to save what has been saved.
Of course, the difficult continuation will tell us whether this initiative will have an impact in the long term and at the level of the dressing room. The ball was lost, the mental distances had grown dangerously and everyone had a different explanation as to who was more or not at all to blame.
Everyone owns a piece of the bitter and insensitive pie that they and their fans have been consuming again this year. It’s a good idea to admit and accept this situation to try again, louder, more united.
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Superleague
Despodov became an integral part of a well-coordinated machine: the two great performances against Kifissia
Kirill Despodov put in his best performance with the PAOK jersey in the 2023 final and showed that he has fully integrated into Razvan Lucescu’s group. The Bulgarian midfielder’s outstanding performances against Kifissia.
PAOK ideally completed its commitments before the end of 2023, when it passed Kaisariani with full football and played the newly enlightened Kifissia.
Lucescu’s men produced their most productive performance in this year’s Stoiximan Super League, finishing second in threat as their 15 final appearances were valuable 2.29 xGoals. The previous event happened three days ago in Tripoli when they beat Asteras 4-1. Thomas Murg’s star shone in this game. In Caesariani, Kirill Despodov was MVP.
The Bulgarian midfielder was one of six goalscorers for the Black and Whites and provided three assists, marking his most successful appearance for the Black and Whites. Tyson and Zivkovic were absent from these two games (Asteras and Kifisia), but their absence was never felt. And in this (especially at Kifissia) Despodov played an important role.
Despodov’s two great performances against Kifissia
Kirill Despodov was deployed on the right attacking wing, the position where Lucescu uses him most often, and the Bulgarian once again fulfilled his role. In fact, he was the player higher up the field (77) than Brandon Thomas (71) who turned further back on the field several times, as we can see in the Opta Stats/Perform graph.
Lucescu held him the entire game and Despontov finished the game with 58 actions with the ball. In fact, ten of them were in the Anagnostopoulos area. It was the highest performance by a Dikefalo player in the league, behind Tomas’ 11 appearances against Lamia.
In one of these ten actions, Despodov scored with a beautiful shot from deep. Where it stood out from Kifissia was the creation part. Created four finals All three even provided assists for his teammates (for goals from Thomas, Murg and Ozdoev).
At the same time he had four successful dribbles a record performance by a PAOK player in 90 minutes. Because Despodov was high up the pitch, he didn’t have many passes, but he had a very good scoring rate 26/32 precise passes.
The Bulgarian started perfectly at PAOK, but gradually experienced a slight decline as his role in Dikefalos is different to the one he had in Ludogorets. But now he shows that he is fully integrated, which is clear from both his appearances and his statements.
The summer addition of Despontov and the return of Murg gave Lucescu the opportunity to comfortably and successfully navigate the league and Conference League by splitting time and opening up the rotation. These two footballers were able to adequately fill the gap left by Živković and Tyson, who were missing in the last few games.
Source: sport 24
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The league announced that a board meeting will be held on Wednesday (December 27). The first item on the agenda was changing the overall program of league games.
The management of the Super League announced that a board meeting will be held on Wednesday (December 27), the first item on the agenda of which will be the change of the summary schedule of league games are not the election of a new president following the resignation of Vangelis Marinakis.
The corresponding announcement states:
“It is announced that a meeting of the Super League Board of Directors will be convened via video conference on Wednesday, December 27, 2023 at 3:00 p.m.
The agenda items are as follows:
1. Change to the annual summary schedule of the Stoiximan Super League 1 (Men).
2. Open points from central sponsorship contracts from previous years.
3. Miscellaneous”.
Source: sport 24
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Stoiximan and PAOK PAOK made an act of donation and solidarity with the hospitality hostel of the “Storgi” association in Thessaloniki a few days before the Christmas party.
More specifically, PAOK footballers Theoharis Tsingaras, Yiannis Michaelidis, William Paul Troost Ekong and Brandon Thomas were at the hospital for children with cancer on the occasion of the club’s Christmas event this year.
During the event, the footballers met and chatted with the children while giving them gifts and autographs as a small act of solidarity in a festive atmosphere full of joy and love. At the same time, the two partners undertook another act of providing financial support from the organization, thereby demonstrating in practice support for their valuable and demanding work.
“Through his actions, Stoiximan practically supports people who struggle with serious illnesses and fight their own battle every day. This Christmas, together with PAOK PAOK, we support the commendable efforts that the Association of Friends of Children with Cancer “STORGI” makes every day. with the aim of contributing to improving the everyday lives of the sick children and their companions who are staying in the “STORGI” guesthouse. We wish all children a speedy recovery and that they return home soon in good health,” said Ms. Ioanna Kozadinou, Head of Corporate Responsibility at Stoiximan.
MS. Anna Mouradidou, Head of Corporate Social Responsibility at PAE PAOK, stated:
“The Association of Friends of Children with Cancer “STORGI” takes on an important role in caring for sick children and their families in northern Greece. This year, together with our sponsor Stoiximan, we are also strengthening the work of the “STORGI” hostel, which houses dozens of sick children. We stand by these life fighters and wish them a healthy year with more smiles.”
Source: sport 24
I am a writer at Sportish, where I mainly cover sports news. I’ve also written for The Guardian and ESPN Brasil, and my work has been featured on NBC Sports, SI.com and more. Before working in journalism, I was an athlete: I played football for Colgate University and competed in the US Open Cross Country Championships.
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