And so it begins...

Today marked our first training session for the 2007 - 2008 season.
Things are serious: We did lots of running. Far more than last year's first training session.

The critics agree: This will be an excellently rigorous training season.

Expect improvement!!!

Summer Break

We entered our summer break on Thursday.
The team has until August 20 to relax, recuperate, replenish (strength) and other re's.

Overall 2006-2007 was a hard-work season coupled with steady improvement and lots of fun. Let's hope next season proves as full.

Goose signing off for the summer!

Panathlitikos vs Galaxias

We played against Galaxias today, in a friendly match.
The match ended in a tie. We lost the first two sets and then won the next two.
Bad defense was the culprit of the first lost set.

Although we didn't play too well overall and we were missing our main setter and outside hitter, we managed a tie with a team that was placed in the middle of A Regional.

Till next match...

All your league are belong to us

I'm so sorry, but after thinking about All your base are belong to us for a while, I just couldn't resist...

In A.D. 2007
League was beginning.
Coach: What happen ?
Referee: Somebody set up us the game.
Player: We get court.
Coach: What !
Player: Main score panel turn on.
Coach: It's you !!
Panathlitikos: How are you gentlemen !!
Panathlitikos: All your league are belong to us.
Panathlitikos: You are on the way to defeat.
Coach: What you say !!
Panathlitikos: You have no chance to win make your time.
Panathlitikos: Ha ha ha ha ....
Player: Coach !!
Coach: Take out every 'Ball' !!
Coach: You know what you doing.
Coach: Spike 'Ball'.
Coach: For great athleticism.

Panathlitikos B Regional Champion

It's official, we are the champions of E.P.E.S.T.H's B Regional championship.

And here is a picture of most of our team.


From top left to bottom right.

• Ilias - Women's team coach
• Dimitraki's Father - A player's father....
• Lazaros - Middle hitter
  
• Stavros - Setter
• Stelios - Offside hitter
• Gatoulis - Offside hitter
• Andreas - Outside hitter
• Alexis - Coach
• Alexis' Daughter - Coach's daughter
• M.V.P - Middle hitter
• Goose - Outside hitter
• Giannis - Outside hitter
• Manos - Libero
• Odisseas - Outside hitter
• Mitsos - Outside hitter
• Dimitris - Setter
• L.M.S - Middle hitter
  

Panathlitikos vs Makedon Ampelokipon

Yesterday was our last official game for the season.
We beat Makedon 3-0.

Panathlitikos vs Nestor

The team pulled it off once more!
We beat Nestor 3-0 in a swift match.

Only one game remains till the end of the championship which will take place after April the 13th due to recent shocking events.

Panathlitikos vs AO Kavaklioton

We beat AO Kavaklioton yesterday in a swift match, 3-0.

What's interesting about AO Kavaklioton? Their uniforms.
The uniforms spell AOK while their emblem is a Shamrock.
The combination could be a pun on their side... They could be satirizing P.A.O.K and P.A.O, two well established teams in Greece.

Panathlitikos vs Bergina

Today marks our second loss in the volleyball league.
We lost to Bergina 2-3.

We were winning the first 2 sets. Then things sort of fell apart and we lost.
Tons of lost serves, coupled with bad defense and as a result low quality sets, were the major culprits.

Nothing is over and we are gonna fight to finish first in the league.

Panathlitikos vs Eukarpia

Yes, it's that time of the week again, Thursday, and yet another game finished in favor of Panathlitikos. We beat Eukarpia 3-1.

We are now first with a 4 point difference from the second. Awesome...

Panathlitikos vs Klimakio

We had a friendly match today with Klimakio. We won 4-1.

Klimakio loosely translates into Laddering. Anyway Ladering is the stage just below a National Team. It's the place where they train youths with potential to become part of the National Team in the future. Kind of like scaffolding for the future.

And yes we beat them. We beat a pre-national team. And yes i'm bragging....

Barely legible footnote:
Klimakio consists of children aged 14-16. The mean of their team's ages would be 15.
The mean of our team's ages would be close to 25.
No... it wasn't stealing candy from children!!!

Panathlitikos vs Polygyros (AOP)

We scored an important victory yesterday. The chances that we'll finish first in our league are now very high.

The match was against Polygyros. The result was 3-2 and it progressed like so:
0-1
0-2
1-2
2-2
3-2

Our first-set performance was lousy. There was no movement on our part. Our offense was actually quite passive. Polygyros won the set real easy.
The middle of the second set was our wake-up point and although we did lose it by 2 points we were already warmed up and heading to the right direction. We won the next three sets.

Panathlitikos vs Makedon Ampelokipon

We scored a victory a couple of hours ago.
It was a swift 3-0 game.
Nothing else to report really...

Young Panathlitikos

So you've searched around the internet and found another blog about Panathlitikos.... You shouldn't be confused, it's from another player on my team.

All for volleyball and PANATHLITIKOS
In there you 'll find some information concerning Volleyball in general, as well as Panathlitikos news for our young team and men's team.

Panathlitikos vs Doksa

The match against Doksa never in fact took place. Not enough people showed in their practice and hence couldn't come and play with us.
So let's see... does this mean we won by default against a team that's a level above us? No... The game was a friendly game, so a win or loss doesn't matter. It's pure volleyball fun.

Next championship game is on Thursday.

Panathlitikos cuts the pie

Panathlitikos will be cutting the pie at 2007-02-11 (this coming sunday).
Why on earth would we be cutting a pie? Well, we may be doing it in a delayed fashion, but traditions requires a Vassilopitta.

Panathlitikos vs Nestor

Panathlitikos beat Nestor yesterday 3-0. The match was smooth, and kind of progressed as expected.

It was a good preparation for our next match which although friendly, is very important: We are playing on Monday with Doxa. Doxa is the team that currently holds first place in A Regional (among 12 teams) and does so with a solid point difference. So, Monday will be a very good indication, and test if you will, of our ability to compete next year in A Regional. We will put up a fight and struggle till the end!

Stay tuned for news on Monday or at the latest Tuesday.

Panathlitikos vs AO Kavaklioton

Panathlitikos scored a victory yesterday against AO Kavaklioton.
It was a relatively easy 3-0. But the opponents did play better than they did last we met, a couple of months back.

Everything is looking good for out team. The championship progresses well. There were some surprises but they all involved other teams.

Our next game is in a week.

Panathlitikos vs AEN - Holy Trinity

Panathiltikos played against AEN - Holy Trinity today.
The game was a friendly game and as such had no significance with respect to ranking. Also, AEN is one level higher than us at the moment. They play A Regional while we play B Regional. Nonetheless we were able to win 2-1.
In the first set our team lacked movement and our coach attributed the loss to exactly that. To give some credit to AEN, two of their players were injured during the game. Would the result have been different, had they not been injured? Even though it may sound cocky, I'd like to think no.
We are making steady progress towards A Regional. It's mathematically almost impossible that we don't advance. Unless of course something very weird happens.

We have another game on Thursday, and this time it's an official one.

Stay tuned...