Welcome Serafim,welcome Dimitris

The club of Athens Kickers is proud to announce one more double transfer. The Koulosousas family, Serafim and Dimitris are the newest assets of the club. We want to welcome them in the Athens Kickers family.
With those latest transfers we are closing the 2008.

We want to wish to all the members of the Kickers and their families the best for the year to come

Satellite of Ilioupoli

The last official tournament of the year 2008, the 2nd satellite of the season, was played in Ilioupoli.
Another great performance of the Athens Kickers players was there.
In the Under 15 our two participants Tasos Maroulas and Manos Kapsabelis reached the semis in a 12 player’s competition. Newcomer Manos Lysikatos reached the last 8.
In the veterans another all Kickers final took place. Marcos Kapsabelis and Giorgos Aggelinas once again faced one another. But this time the smile was for Giorgos.
In the open we had three players. Thanasis Vlassopoulos was the best of the other two (Argyris Poulidis and Giannis Vlassopoulos) as he was the only one who managed to Qualify from the groups of 5. Then he stayed on the Barrage stage as he lost on sudden death by Pappas 2-3.

IO OF ILIOUPOLI

The second International Open in Greece was played in Ilioupoli the weekend 13-14 of December.
Athens Kickers were there and they did a great job. A semi final in the team event and wins in 2 out of the 3 individuals’ categories was the sum.

In the teams an easy qualification from the group as second, (lost against Falcons 0-3) send us to play a semi final against the local team of Roligans. A dramatic game was played. It was draw 2-2 at the end but unfortunately we were one goal down (8-9), so our Boys (Giorgos Aggelinas, Marcos Kapsabelis, Aggelos Tsakiris, Thanasis and GiannisVlassopoulos) didnt get to the final.

In the individuals we had another comfortable win of Giannis in the under 15. With a series of wins he lifts the trophy as he bet in the final Dimitris Koulossousas. The other 2 of the Kickers were also in good shape. Manos Kapsabelis reached the semi final and Tasos Maroulas the last 8.

In the veterans a full Athens kickers final was played. Marcos won Giorgos in Sudden death 1-0 and won the tournament. Argyris Poulidis stayed on groups.
In the open category the best was Giorgos. He reached the last 8, when Marcos stayed in the last 16. Argyris amd Giannis Vlassopoulos stayed on the groups and Thanasis in the Barrage stage.

World Ranking November 2008

TEAMS:
1 TFC MATTERSBURG Team A mat AUT 3568.5
2 ACS PERUGIA Team A per ITA 2634.5
3 CCT BLACK & BLUE 1983 – PISA Team A pis ITA 2423.25
4 TSC STELLA ARTOIS MILANO Team A mil ITA 2087
5 REAL MURCIA CF Team A mur ESP 2058.75
6 WORTHING FIVESTAR Team A wor ENG 1677.88
7 TSC FALCONS ATHENS Team A fal GRE 1645.25
8 BOLOGNA TIGERS SUBBUTEO Team A bol ITA 1612.25
9 AS HENNUYER Team A hen BEL 1576.50
10 SC CHARLEROI Team A cha BEL 1382.1
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33(+11) ATHENS KICKERS SC 411

OPEN:

61(-4) JAIME SILVA 303,75

113(+16) AGGELOS TSAKIRIS 187.25

118(-6) GIORGOS AGGELINAS 178.05
126(-5) MARCOS KAPSABELIS 170.48

235(+67) ARGYRIS POULIDIS 65.1

399 THANASIS VLASSOPOULOS 31.75

546(-9) SARANTIS PAPIDAKIS 18,75

599(-8) GIANNIS KARVOUNIS 17

626 GIANNIS VLASSOPOULOS 14.13

685(-7) FANIS ELLINAS 12

741(-13) GIANNIS SERBOS 10.5

U15:

8(+1) GIANNIS VLASSOPOULOS 690

87(+4) EMMANOUIL KAPSAMPELIS 52.5

147(+11) MAROULAS ANASTASIOS 22.5

U19:

56 GIANNIS VLASSOPOULOS 54

VETS:

24(+11) GIORGOS AGGELINAS 509.1

25(+2) AGGELOS TSAKIRIS 478.5
46(-1) MARCOS KAPSABELIS 276.75
121(-7) FANIS ELLINAS 72

211 ARGYRIS POULIDIS 27

Extraordinary news

1. Fotis Labi is erased by the team of Athens Kickers
2. Diamantis Labi is erased by the team of Athens Kickers

GP Berlin-Super Giannis

Weekend 29-30 of November the Athens kickers team went to Berlin, in order to participate in the German GP. The team consisted by Thanasis and Giannis Vlassopoulos, Aggelos Tsakiris, Argyris Poulidis and Giorgos Aggelinas.

In the teams event we qualified as second from the group (won against Dortmund 2-1 and lost against Delft 0-3) to the quarter finals.
Then we had to play against Mattesburg. The final score was 2-2 but unfortunately we were short by three goals. The critical game was between Argyris vs M. Haider (2-3 for the Austrian) but Argyris had big complaints about the refereeing of this game.

In the Individuals we had:
The bright future of the club shined in 3 categories.
The 9 years old Giannis won the U12 easily 7-0 in the final against Broer,
Reached the semifinal in the U15 and the last 8 in U19.

In Open Thanasis Vlassopoulos in his first ever european tour stayed in the groups.
Both Giorgos and Argyris qualified from the group just to lose in the barrage stage against Bambersky 2-4 and Grorund 0-1 sd.
Aggelos reached the last 16 but then he stopped on Blumel 1-2.


In the Veterans Tsakiris was the best of the 3. He was very unlucky and lost on the last 8 against Bambersky on shots. Poulidis lost in barrage against Thoen 0-2 and Giorgos stayed in groups thanks to Henk Landzaat..

Greek National Team Championship

Sunday November 23rd the day 1 (out of 3) of the Greek National Team Championship took place in Illioupoli Athens.
Our team (Giorgos Aggelinas, Marcos Kapsabelis, Argyris Poulidis, Thanasis and Giannis Vlassopoulos) played 6 games, won 3 lost 3. Unfortunately we had two last minutes players cancellation in participating with the team. Giannis Karvounis and mostly Aggelos Tsakiris failed to appear in the tournament. So we gathered 9 points out of the possible 18. At the league table we lay in the 4th place – equal with Aek- with 9 points.
Let’s have a look at the team results: won Lions B 2-0, Highlanders 4-0 and Mirmidones with the same score. We lost Falcons 0-3, Roligans 0-4 and Atlas 1-3.
The league table is Falcons, Roligans and Atlas 18. Kickers and Aek 9, Lions A 6, Highlanders A 4, Mirmidones 2, Highlanders B 1, Lions B 0.