Marked for Antonis Dermitzakis
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Upbeat
Squad27 Dec 2027
34 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Kampaniakos lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Player ratings27 Dec 2027
Successful dribbles: 25. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match25 Dec 2027
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Kampaniakos have 3 straight wins of it.
Squad27 Dec 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Kampaniakos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad27 Dec 2027
Nikos Botis falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Player ratings27 Dec 2027
A performance of 8.36 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad27 Dec 2027
It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 36 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.
The dugout27 Dec 2027
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Eleftherios Mavropanos could afford to be generous.
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Uneasy
Squad13 Dec 2027
77 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Kampaniakos lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad13 Dec 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 23 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad13 Dec 2027
Domi Berlanga and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad13 Dec 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nikos Botis was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The terraces13 Dec 2027
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match11 Dec 2027
5 matches without a win, and then this, against Panserraikos. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.
Player ratings13 Dec 2027
Defensive actions: 18, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Player ratings13 Dec 2027
7.80, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Kampaniakos had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
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Upbeat
Squad25 Oct 2027
Stathis Sarvanidis damages knee ligaments — 129 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 129 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad25 Oct 2027
A fracture rules Antonio Salado out for 76 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Kampaniakos will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match23 Oct 2027
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 5‑0 against Nestos Chrysoupoli, and it could have been more.
Player ratings25 Oct 2027
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.69, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings25 Oct 2027
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Argyris Liatsikouras did not need any: 8.10, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Player ratings25 Oct 2027
Nikos Katharios, 33, rolls back the years — 8.13
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.13 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Match23 Oct 2027
Nobody wants to play Kampaniakos right now
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Domi Berlanga was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Nikos Botis falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
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Upbeat
Squad18 Oct 2027
136 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Kampaniakos lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad18 Oct 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 85 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad18 Oct 2027
3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Match18 Oct 2027
Kampaniakos are in among the leaders
Position 3 and 12 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Player ratings18 Oct 2027
Marked 8.02 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Match16 Oct 2027
It finished 6‑4, and it was Domi Berlanga’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Kampaniakos.
Squad18 Oct 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Kampaniakos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings18 Oct 2027
Marked 9.97 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Match16 Oct 2027
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 10 goals between Kampaniakos and Asteras Tripolis B, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
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Steady
Squad4 Oct 2027
100 days out for Antonio Salado after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Kampaniakos will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match2 Oct 2027
PAOK B will want this one forgotten quickly: 4‑1, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Kampaniakos were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Match29 Sep 2027
0‑2 against OFI, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Player ratings4 Oct 2027
Two goals and a mark of 8.80 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad4 Oct 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad4 Oct 2027
A move Marley Milord would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Marley Milord is living that version at Kampaniakos, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad4 Oct 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Aitor Morcillo and Kampaniakos agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The terraces4 Oct 2027
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
The dugout4 Oct 2027
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
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Steady
Squad30 Aug 2027
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Kampaniakos will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings30 Aug 2027
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.84, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market30 Aug 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Kampaniakos can pretend not to have heard.
The dugout30 Aug 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Kampaniakos may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Transfer targets30 Aug 2027
Everything agreed with PAS Giannina, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Transfer targets30 Aug 2027
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at AEL Larisa is saying, and nobody at Kampaniakos is enjoying the guessing.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Erko Jonne Tõugjas and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom30 Aug 2027
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Kampaniakos
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Match28 Aug 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Domi Berlanga. 3‑1 against Kavala, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
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Steady
Squad1 Feb 2027
Antonio Salado damages knee ligaments — 21 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 21 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Boardroom1 Feb 2027
Deadline passes with 0 signed and 0 gone
That is the business done at Kampaniakos until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
Everything agreed with Panetolikos, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Aitor Morcillo falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Antonis Dermitzakis and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Thodoris Albanis, and the manager let it.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Tarzan still has not settled
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Kampaniakos would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
Market1 Feb 2027
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Antonio Salado signs something — a contract at Kampaniakos or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Steady
Squad28 Dec 2026
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad28 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Kampaniakos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
Wages swallow 157% of the Kampaniakos income
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
Squad28 Dec 2026
The medical room confirms 33 days on the sidelines for Christos Eleftheriadis, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad28 Dec 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Joel Sousa commits to Kampaniakos for another 3 years.
Match26 Dec 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Asteras Tripolis B leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Joel Sousa
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
The one thing Tarzan could not do
Shots: 13, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
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Crisis
Squad19 Oct 2026
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Kampaniakos will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match19 Oct 2026
Kampaniakos refuse to drop out of the race
Position 2, 11 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Domi Berlanga was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Antonio Salado falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Nikos Botis gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad19 Oct 2026
At 35, 3 points below where he was, and a body that has started charging interest. It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph on this page.
Match17 Oct 2026
Conceding is one thing; the response is what tells you about a dressing room. Tarzan had Kampaniakos level again within 4 minutes, and Asteras Tripolis B never got to play with a lead at all.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Antonio Salado ran the middle of the pitch — 6.85
He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 9 combined actions and a mark of 6.85, and not one of them will make a highlights package.
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Upbeat
Squad7 Sep 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 133 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Deadline passes with 22 signed and 0 gone
That is the business done at Kampaniakos until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Antonio Salado falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Too much change too quickly at Kampaniakos
11 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Antonis Dermitzakis was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Looking ahead7 Sep 2026
Iraklis next, and one man in the Kampaniakos dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
Market7 Sep 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Kampaniakos, another week without a signature from Joel Sousa.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
Joel Sousa knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Joel Sousa trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.