As expected, Ehsan Hajisafi has been called up to the Iran national team for the 2023 CAFA Nations Cup, which will be played in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan from June 10-20.

The AEK left-back, an important and irreplaceable member of the Iran national team, will take part in another international tournament with his national team.

Besides Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Oman are participating in the CAFA Nations Cup.

After making official the appointment of Antonio Cordon as Olympiacos sporting director and defining the responsibilities of Cristian Karebé (club’s strategic advisor and ambassador) and José Añigo (academy director), the Red-Whites move to the next step in the settlement with a new coach.

The Spaniard has held relevant talks with Olympiakos management and developments are expected in the next 24 hours. The Piraeus team enters a four-day phase aimed at clarifying the situation in technical leadership, on the one hand because the objective is concrete and alternative solutions exist and on the other hand because the Spanish championship ends with this weekend.

As long as Cordon and the red-white PAE keep their cards closed, which is perfectly logical when trying to reach an agreement with a new coach, information on coaches that the 59-year-old has allegedly touched on keeps surfacing from Spain. such as z as well as about each of its employees at the Olympic Games.

As for the Iberia coaches, they claim Cordon has links with Anthony Iraola, who is leaving Rayo Vallecano, and Diego Martinez, who is free after leaving Espanyol two months ago.

Martinez worked with Cordon at Granada while the Spaniards believe Olympiacos’ new sporting director has two others in mind to work with. They are Javier Cayeja, who is on the bench at Levante, who are fighting for promotion to the first division, and Jordi Cruyff, who has given up the post of sporting director at Barcelona.

Cordon worked with Cayeja at Villarreal when the former was sporting director and the latter took his first coaching steps on the bench of the Yellow Submarine Under-19 side. Cayeja became Villarreal first-team coach after his compatriot left while he was also on the bench at Alaves. The 45-year-old coach has another year on his contract at Levante but the coaches change a lot from month to month.

Jordi Cruyff worked with Cordon at Chinese club Chongqing Lifan and in the Ecuador national team, with the Dutchman acting as coach. The 49-year-old has also worked as a coach at Maccabi Tel Aviv and Chinese club Shenzhen, but has worked as a sporting director at Barcelona for the past two years. He was sporting director at Maccabi Tel Aviv and before that at AEK Larnaca.

According to reports in Spain, Iraola could be one of the candidates if Mendiliber leaves the Seville bench. And Marthelino seems to be in the sights of Napoli and Marseille.

The mood of the Olympiakos regulars on the first day of physical presence was extremely satisfying as more than 1,300 players left on Thursday (1/6). This number will of course increase daily, with the intention of continuing both online and in person.

The relevant announcement states:

“On Thursday (June 1st) the demand from people on the first day of sale of season tickets at the publishers of “G. Karaiskakis” in front of goal 25, as 1,300 season tickets for the new 2023/24 season were issued within a few hours.

Season tickets will continue to be sold daily both by the publishers of “G. Karaiskakis” from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and every day and 24 hours a day via the Internet through the official website of PAE Olympiacos www.olympiacos.org”.