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08.12.2024 | 02:58
Ajax trainer John van ‘t Schip listens during a news conference in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Friday, Jan. 19,2024. The lucrative Saudi soccer league lost one of its high-profile players when England midfielder Jordan Henderson left Al -Ettifaq to sign for struggling Dutch powerhouse Ajax. (AP Photo/Peter dejong)
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Akis Manzios is expected to be a thing of the past from the technical leadership of Aris, with the Thessalonians promoting the recruitment of John Van Sip.
Aris is going ahead with a change of coach, because the return to victories over Atromitos in Kleanthis Vikelidis, was not enough to keep Akis Manzios in charge of the team. John Van Sip has been chosen to replace him.
PAE Aris powerful man Theodoros Karypidis is expected to meet the Greek coach on Sunday (08/12) adn announce his decision to complete the cooperation between the two sides.
John Van Sip is a connoisseur of Greek reality as he was on the bench of the National team. Michalis Balkanis is expected to be his direct partner.
Van Sip’s last job was at Ajax, when he accepted a position as a service technician at Ayandas last October and then took on a position as a technical consultant, where he remained untill November 11.
In the past outside the Netherlands (apart from the national team) he has coached Melbourne Heart (having also been technical director),and the Mexican Chivas.
Akis Manzios is expected to finish his second term in the squad with 58 games (in the first he sat in 66), after taking over the technical leadership of the squad at the end of august 2023.
It left Aris in third place (temporarily) with 24 points, but also out of the Betsson Greek Cup, as the yellows where eliminated by AEK.