U9, U11 and U12 sides in important international tournaments
The summer season of the PAOK Academy starts in the last week of March with outings to Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands. The minnows of the “Double-Headed Eagle” are looking forward to gaining experience and playing their game.
U9
The U9 side of PAOK are gearing up for a trip to Barcelona, where they will take part in Mundialito tournament from 26 March to 1 April. Club Atlético de Madrid, RC Deportivo de La Coruña, Chelsea FC, FC Porto are among the clubs participating.
PAOK U9 fixtures are as follows:
26.03 19:00 PΑΟΚ – CF Vilaseca
27.03 16:00 Valencia CF – PΑΟΚ
28.03 10:00 PΑΟΚ – FC La Salle Reus
28.03 16:00 San Diego FC – PΑΟΚ
PAOK U9 squad: Argyris Argyriou, Georgios Nikolaidis, Marios Kalpakidis, Athanasios Filippiadis, Stefanos Aivazoglou, Kyriakos Tounousidis, Christoforos Lazaridis, Konstantinos Souvlatzis, Marios Matera, Nikolaos Chaldezos, Christos Danidis, Alexandros Vandiras, Iordanis Cholidis, Fabio Refatlari.
PAOK players are accompanied by coach Nikolaos Nikolaidis and doctor Giorgos Saridakis.
U11
PAOK U11s will also travel to the Iberian Peninsula. They will participate in the Iber Cup, to be held in Estoril, Portugal, from 27 to 31 March.
Fixtures of PAOK U11:
27.03 17:30 PΑΟK – Philadelphia Union
28.03 14:00 PΑΟΚ – EF Benfica Olivais C
29.03 11:30 EF Belenenses – PΑΟΚ
PAOK U11 squad: Michail Pourliotopoulos, Dunga Bedri, Georgios Kosidis, Konstantinos Vyrsokinos, Petros Karakostas, Athanasios Panos, Fotios Vasilis, Mattheos-Aristidis Albanis, Konstantinos Atridis, Nikolaos Theofilou, Efstratios Tachmetzidis, Rafail Chatzivasiliou.
PAOK players are accompanied by coaches Spyros Koulouris, Stelios Bikas and goalkeeping coach Dimitris Petrakis.
U12
The U12s will travel to the Netherlands once again, for the Marc Overmars tournament (30 March – 1 April), to be held in his native town Epe.
PAOK will face the following teams in their group: Randers FC (Denmark), Sparta Rotterdam (Netherlands), Feyenoord Rotterdam (Netherlands), Fase Szczecin (Poland).
PAOK U12 squad: Dimitrios Chatsidis, Konstantinos Chatzigavriil, Trifon Kalioglou, Iordanis Kesidis, Georgios Koupenos, Konstantinos Koutroulidis, Thomas Magis, Efstathios Panikidis, Vasilios Papageorgiou, Konstantinos Polykratis, Romano Thiago, Anastasios Sevastidis, Maximilian Sznaucner, Georgios Telos, Stamatis-Stylianos Toutsis, Panagiotis Tsitskas, Stefanos Tzimas, Antonio Zoumbis.
PAOK players are accompanied by coaches Giorgos Gourtsas, Andreas Balabanis, video analyzer Giannis Tsaniklidis and doctor Markos Kostopoulos.
- Matches consist of two 20-minute halves.
