The Athens Kallithea Herald
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Giannis Varkas runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Juan Camilo Cantillo 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Athens Kallithea
Veljko Vukojević 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.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
204% of the income goes out in wages at Athens Kallithea
Every club in football 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 somebody has tried it.
Match28 Nov 2026
Athens Kallithea come up short against Marko
Marko left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Constantine Edlund wants to go home
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Athens Kallithea know it.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Leonidas Georgiadis faces the questions
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Leonidas Georgiadis after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
No hiding place for Gian Marco Crespi
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Gian Marco Crespi, and the manager let it.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
João Oliveira knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Athens Kallithea, and both men came out saying it was fine.
In brief
- The dugout No place in the plan for João Oliveira
- Looking ahead Giannis Varkas faces his old club
- Player ratings The chances came and went for Juan Camilo Cantillo