2023-07-08 11:50:52
Sports Editorial Room
The 22-year-old Slovak Matus Begala, who plays in the position of defensive midfielder, is expected to be the next transfer of PAS.
According to information, Thanasis Staikos, who had him on trial in the training sessions of the last season, gave the green light for his acquisition. The same information states that there is a verbal agreement with Begala that will be formalized with the signing of the contracts. Last season he had 28 appearances and 1 goal for his hometown club Zeblin Michalovce. German expatriate Achilleas Economidis, who comes from Magdeburg’s youth teams, is still being tested. As of yesterday afternoon, another 21-year-old footballer who was proposed to PAS Ioannina started trial training. For obvious reasons, his name was not released. As for developments on the rest of the transfer front, the acquisition of Apollon Smyrna’s Argentinian midfielder Maximiliano Pablo Cuadra, nor 31-year-old striker Alejandro Barbaro, does not seem to be progressing. Barbaro has been confirmed not to be a free agent and his team in Colombia intends to give him to another team in the region in exchange for another player. The name that particularly ‘clicked’ in the world of Ioannina was the hefty CV of Athletic Bilbao left-back Mikel Balentiaga with 278 appearances in Spain’s La Liga, who has been offered to PAS but currently no interest has emerged. It seems difficult for PAS to pay a significant amount to get a 35-year-old left defender. He usually looks for young players, who have the passion and fire to make a career at a bigger club and seize the opportunity that will be presented to them in Ioannina. But since things change from one moment to the next in the transfer industry, there should always be reservations. The transfer safari continues. The goal is that by July 20, when the mission will leave for Poland, where it will do the basic preparation stage, two more transfers will have been made, that of Begala, which will be the second in a row after the acquisition of goalkeeper Kleiman. Staikos gives great importance, expressing the general philosophy of the team, and the PAS Youth teams to the children. Some players who stood out in the Super League infrastructure championships are alternately invited to the training sessions of the professional team.
The preparation continued yesterday in Ioannina with double training sessions. Leo, who was out of the program the previous two days due to foot problems, also got back to normal. As it’s been a week since the first meeting, everything is going well at the moment with Staikos satisfied with the players’ effort.
STAMATELOPOULOS RETURNED TO AUSTRALIA
Apostolos Stamatelopoulos played 17 times last season with PAS Ioannina, but the new season decided to find him again in Australia, where he was born, as he terminated the cooperation with “Ajax of Epirus”. The 24-year-old striker returned to Newcastle Jets, where he played in the second half of the 2020-2021 season. He left in the summer of 2022 to join Rhodes where he played for one year, before being transferred to Gianniotes.
From today’s printed edition of the “Continental Struggle” (8/7/2023) PAS Ioannina. Super LeagueShare0
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