The Greek Championship Starts on Friday

The Greek championship is starting with the game between Aris–Iraklis on Friday. Iraklis had taken the certificate to participate in the volleyballLeague on Wednesday.

On Saturday four matches are scheduled. These games are Olympiakos - Apollon Kalamaria, Lamia - Pamvochaikos, EAPatras - PAOK, Kifissia - Ethnikos Alexandroupolis. The first round is closing on Monday with the battle between Panathinaikos - Finikas Syrou.

Trying to continue our previous presentation we will analyze the roster there teams Panathinaikos, EAPatron and PAOK.

Nikos Boutsouris will coach the team of Panathinaikos who had also agreed with the libero Theologos Daridis (from Milonas), the middle blockers Nikos Zoupanis and Ioannis Maroudas, the setter Nikos Agelopoulos from Panahaiki, the outside hitters Milos Stojikoviv (SRB), Giannluka Saraceni (ITA), Giorgos Koltsianos, Iraklis Papadopoulos (from Kalamaria) and the Poland diagonal Tomasz Jozefacki. Thanasis Psaras, Sotiris Pantaleon , Stathis Donas will stay for one more year in the team. On the other hand Illias Lappas, Giorgos Petreas, Vasilis Minoudis, Michalis Kovats, Axileas Papadimitriou and all the foreign players from previous team choose to continue their careers in other teams. It will be a tough year for Panathinaikos team which will not fight to win the Greek championship after many years.

PAOK will have Ioannis Melkas as the main coach for one more year. Thanos Papadimitriou, Dimitris Orologas, Vasilis Plikas and Rafael Lins will try to repeat the previous year’s performance and play in the finals for a second year in a row. The new players for Thessaloniki’s team are Ioannis Georgiadis (setter), Thanasis Dinas, Kostas Girtzikis and Ioannis Papaiakovou (middle blockers), Apostolos Armenakis (diagonal) and Serbian Ivan Bororvniak (diagonal). Agelos Agelis will be the libero of the team.  

EAPatron is one of the teams that will a different role than usual. Economical problems forced the president of the team Manolis Rogdakis to reduce the budget. So EAPatron invest in Greek talented players such are the Liberos Patakiaras and Ioannis Ahileopoulos, the middle- blockers Sarakinis and George Papadopoulos. The main coach Georgios Xristopoulos stay for one more year and choose the setter Josef Janosik (SVK) the middle- blocker Milan Jurisic (SRB) and outside hitter Andrew Pink (UK). The younger Greek players Tasos Aspiotis, Ioannis Madekas, Makrygiannis, Panagiotis Papadopoulos and Ilias Patrinos will remain in the team.