International call-ups and fixtures
Another break for international commitments, and there are several PAOK players who have already joined up with their national teams, either for the UEFA Nations League games, or for the Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers. Giannis Konstantelias is, of course, included in Ivan Jovanovic’s squad for Greece’s match with England (14.11, 21:45 at OAKA), and against Finland (17.11, 19:00) in Helsinki.
Andrija Živkovc joins up with the Serbian national team for the Switzerland-Serbia (15.11) and Serbia-Denmark (18.11) matches, while Kiril Despodov is also on duty with the Bulgarian national team for the Luxembourg-Bulgaria (15.11) and Bulgaria-Belarus games ( 18.11).
Croatia have called upon Dominik Kotarski once more for the two Nations League games (Scotland-Croatia, 15.11 and Croatia-Portugal, 18.11).
Three of our players are on duty for the AFCON qualifiers. Mady Kamara is with Guinea for their matches against Congo on 16.11 and against Ali Samatta’s Tanzania on 19.11. There’s two games also for Omar Colley with Gambia (Gambia-Comoros 15.11 and Tunisia-Gambia 18.11). Samatta is also in the Tanzania squad for the matches against Ethiopia (16.11) and Guinea (19.11).
Fedor Chalov returns to the Russia squad for their training camp that will take place in Krasnodar from 11 to 19.11, and the friendlies against Brunei and Syria on 15 and 19 November, respectively.
For the Greece Under-21 side, which is going through a period of age renewal, six PAOK players were called up for the friendly match against Hungary, in Serres, on 19.11 (16:00). Those are Dimitris Monastirlis, Mario Sinanai, Nikos Deligiannis, Lefteris Tasiouras, Lambros Smyrlis and Victor Rumiantsev. It should be noted that Sinaiai was also invited to the Albanian Under-21 squad, however he opted for the Greek national team.
The Under-19 Greek team have a qualifying group for the Under-19 EURO 2025 in Heraklion, Crete, and coach Vangelis Moras invited eight PAOK players, Stathis Beleris, George Koupenos, Dimitris Bataoulas, George Kosidis, Konstantinos Polykratis, Mario Kalaitsidis, Anestis Mythos, and Dimitris Hatsidis. Greece will play on 13.11 against Bosnia and Herzegovina (2:30 p.m.), against Montenegro (2:30 p.m.) and against Italy (2:30 p.m.).
As for the Under-17 Greece team, coach Vassilis Papadakis called up Konstantinos Souvlatzis, Giorgos Krommydas, Dimitris Berdos, Traianos Mokris, Michael Papadopoulos and Antonis Areti for the three games of the qualifying phase of EURO 2025 against Romania (13.11), Azerbaijan (16.11) and with Hungary (19.11), which will be held in Bucharest.
Also, Max Scznauczner will be away with the Polish Under-19 squad for a three-match tournament (Portugal, Czech Republic, Romania) on 14, 16 and 19.11.
