The Olympiakos team is in Galati, Romania, where they will play three difficult games from Friday November 10th to Sunday November 12th for the ultimate goal of qualifying for the Champions League groups.

The European Cup winners on Friday (October 11th) at 9:00 p.m. (COSMOTE SPORT 7 HD)In the first game of the qualifying group of Europe’s leading interclub competition they face Bulgaria’s Neftokhimik Burgas.

Then the “Red-Whites” will play two more qualifying games against the Ukrainian Prometei Dnipro and the group organizer in Romania, Arcada Galati, on Saturday (11/11, 9:00 p.m.) and Sunday (11/12, 6:00 p.m.).

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Neftohimik qualified second in the event’s first qualifying group and placed 2nd overall. And that’s because they were beaten 3-0 by Budvanska Riviera of Montenegro on day 3 of the tournament.

It has three foreign athletes in the squad. They are the Serbian blocker Stevan Simic, the Slovakian winger Marcel Lux and the Pakistani winger Murad Khan.

Denis Savdarov, Vencislav Ragin, Ivan Stanev, Stefan Ivanov and basic libero Simeon Dobrev continue to play as regular players. The Serbian Simic plays as a substitute in the first games.

The coach is Atanas Petrov. In the Bulgarian Championship, Neftohimik Burgas played a match against Pirin Radlog, whom she defeated with 3-1 sets.

The first place and the best second place in two groups qualify

The top team in Group 6 qualified for Group A of the Champions League together with Poland’s Kienzergin, Belgium’s Nak Roselare and Turkey’s Zirat Bank.

There are also hopes for the second team, which must be compared with the runners-up of the 5th qualifying group, which includes Budva from Montenegro, Guaguas Las Palmas from Spain, Tirol Innsburg from Austria and Partizan Belgrade, which will also host the tournament in Zemun 10 will take place. – November 12, 2023.

Finally, the second best in the 5th and 6th qualifying groups qualifies and goes into Group E of the Champions League with the Italian Lube Civitanova, the Belgian Grinyard Maaseik and the Czech Lvi Prague.

Castellani: “All strong opponents with good diagonals”

Olympiacos Argentine coach Daniel Castellani said: “It is a journey to qualify for the Champions League groups.

The team is very positive and highly motivated ready to pass this group. We play with three teams that are at the top in their countries, are at roughly the same level, all three teams have a very strong diagonal. We will try to trouble you with our service. And when our strong serve comes, we go where we want the game to be on a regular basis.

Olympiakos libero Dimitris Tziavras said: “Of course getting through the groups in the top club competition is something we really want, it is very important and it will be the gift of our successes last year. Right now it’s our #1 goal! We play very good teams, but and we are ready, we have found a rhythm and we have a very good chance of passing.”

The group program

Friday, November 10, 2023

• 6:00 p.m.: CSArcada Galati (Romania) – SC Prometei Dnipro (Ukraine)
• 21:00: Olympiacos SFP – Petrochemical Burgas (Bulgaria)

Saturday, November 11, 2023

• 6:00 p.m.: SC Prometei Dnipro (Ukraine) – Olympiacos SFP
• 9:00 p.m.: Neftokhimik Burgas (Bulgaria) – CSArkada Galati (Romania)

Sunday, November 12, 2023

• 3:00 p.m.: Neftokhimik Burgas (Bulgaria) – SC Prometey Dnipro (Ukraine)
• 18:00: CSarcada Galati (Romania) – Olympiacos SFP