The Pantelis Kyriakidis Tournamant and informative workshop
Time stopped for Pantelis Kyriakidis and his family on that fateful night of May 24 in 2009.
Unfortunatrely, one single moment was enough to change the young PAOK Academy player’s life on his way home from a football tournament with his father. In a fatal traffic accident, he lost his father. Pantelis is still fighting, stuck in a deep coma.
There are many academies who will take part this year. They are the following: PAOK Oinoi Orestiadas, PAOK Komotinis, Proteas, PAOK Neapolis, Protathlites Pefkon, Aetoi Thessaloniki, Mundialito Kavala, PAOK Ofriniou, Christo Serron, Olympia Karousadon Kerkyra, Katerini Academy 2006, PAOK Patriarcheio Giannitson, PAOK Stavrou, RIA Team Preveza, PAOK Diaplasi, Pro Soccer Academy, Polykastrou Academy, AO Parou, AO Kavala, Sykia Chalkidiki, Alexandros Kilkis, PAOK Kavala, Aetopoula Toumba, PAOK Koroneias, Asteras Ambelokipon, Elpides Acheronta, Nigrita, Makrochoriou Veria Academy, PAOK Aridaias Academy, Andre Vierinha Neapolis Academy, Atromitos Kerkinis, Arsaklis Academy, FC.
Training Day at the Toumba
On the occasion of the tournament, the PAOK Academy have also decided to organize a special workshop, during which the club will present our educational philosophy and training methods. The coaches and heads of the affiliated academies are, of course, invited to attend the briefing which will be held at the Toumba Stadium press room on Sunday, December 22 AT 17:30. General Manager Vangelis Pourliotopoulos, Technical Director George H. Georgiadis, Head of the Analysis Department Giannis Vlachos, as well as coaches of different age groups, will present the training plan used by PAOK’s academy teams.
Additional speakers will be he head of the affiliated academies network Kyriakos Alexandridis, coaches Elias Galanopoulos (Under-14), Alexandros Foropoulos (Under-11), George Gourtsas (Under-10), Maria Exadaktylou, Magda Tsoukala (Under-7, Under-6), Dimitris Krionas (Under-15’s goalkeeper coach), and Vangelis Alexopoulos (under-17’s fitness coach).