Olympiacos: When a former PAOK player and coach declares that the “Red and White” are the biggest team in Greece… | Blog – Kostas Nikolakopoulos

Score as. Nikolakopoulos on his blog in the newspaper an interview with a former member of PAOK and AEK, which highlights the size of Olympiacos.

To understand the dynamics of each club…

Olympiacos He did not win the championship last year. He probably won't get it this year either. He has to play in the Champions League from 2020-21.

Vladan Ivic He is the coach who became famous at PAOK, after first playing football for four years at Dykefalos North. Earlier, he also played for three years at AEK…

What did he say? So, Ivic on that day in Israel, where he coached and won a championship with Maccabi Tel Aviv, when Sports.walla.co.il asked him to comment on Maccabi's battle with Olympiacos? Pay attention to what he said, I repeat, he is a football player whose name was primarily associated with PAOK, and secondly with AEK Athens, and he was never associated with Olympiacos…

“this It is the largest football game that can be played between a Greek team and an Israeli team. Maccabi Tel Aviv in Israel and Olympiacos in Greece are the biggest, biggest and most successful clubs. “When you want to think about the biggest meeting between Greek and Israeli football, you think about Olympiacos and Maccabi.”

Be carefulThe important thing is that Ivic says this for the reasons we mentioned. Hence the introduction: to understand the dynamics of each club…

In any caseNow that we've seen the project, it's good to see what Ivic expects for the two teams' matches. Former coach of the Russian Krasnodar team:

“One day Olympiacos Olympiacos is not the start of the season or the months that follow. From the moment he hired a new coach (the Spanish Mandelibre), his face changed. They are a completely different team, with seven straight wins after losing to Panathinaikos away from home. At Olympiacos, they changed their style. They play different and much better football. With Mindliber they won all their matches, and before he took over they had one match which they also won with an interim coach. Olympiacos has entered with good momentum. He has very high quality players. Their team is very large and has many good tools.

To be fairI haven't watched a Maccabi match for a long time, so I'm not fully aware of their style of play at the moment. Obviously I'm watching her results and she's happy about getting first place in the tournament. The players are mainly players that I own and know well. Maccabi has excellent equipment, but this match will be very difficult for them against Olympiacos. The odds are in favor of the Greek team mainly due to time and momentum. I think if the matches had been two months ago it would have been easier for Maccabi. Today Olympiacos is better.

the truth That Maccabi won't be able to play the second leg in Bloomfield, Tel Aviv, is a huge disadvantage. Recasting to her crowded home would improve her ratings. Olympiacos' positive momentum and a neutral second leg make qualification more complicated and difficult for Maccabi. But we are talking about football and certainly when it comes to the biggest club in Israel, they have to believe in themselves and hope to beat Olympiacos.”

Vladan Ivic, as we now know, has been vindicated since Olympiacos qualified. But perhaps the most important thing in his interview was his admission that Olympiacos is the biggest team in Greece. Something that gains another value when it is mentioned by a PAOK player and coach for many years – and before AEK…

accidental: Ferencvaros overcame his elimination from Olympiacos, achieving three wins and one draw, and rose to first place in the Hungarian league standings, two points behind PAX, and has one match in hand. Thus, they are the favorites to win the championship for the sixth consecutive season! With centre-forward Varga is the league's top scorer with 17 goals.

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And at Atletico Minero is looking for Scarpa to find his place! Even though he returned to Brazil, he still couldn't find himself there either. As happened in Greece with Olympiacos and in England with Nottingham! It was as if the matter stopped working when, in December 2022, he left Palmeiras, with whom he won the title of best player in the Brazilian League in the not-so-distant year 2022.

Yes, It has become a topic in the Brazilian press that Scarpa has not scored a goal nor even an assist since he left Palmeiras as a free agent! The left-footed playmaker made 30 appearances: 10 for Nottingham, 11 for Olympiacos and 9 for Atletico Mineiro! Truly unbelievable for the 30-year-old, who was bought by his team for €5 million in the winter from Forest!

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