The Kifisia Courier
Market30 Aug 2027
Kifisia sign Lucas Ferraz Vila for $680.0K
The paperwork is done: Lucas Ferraz Vila joins from Panetolikos in a deal worth $680.0K. Now comes the harder part.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Tempers go at Kifisia
Jorge Pombo 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.
Boardroom30 Aug 2027
Graduation day at Kifisia
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Yasser Larouci 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 Aug 2027
Sonny Sharples-Ahmed 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 Kifisia know it.
Squad30 Aug 2027
A late step up for Samir Ben Sallam
At 26 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Market30 Aug 2027
Kifisia promote Efthymios Kourbelis from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Efthymios Kourbelis has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market30 Aug 2027
Kifisia promote Apostolos Siopis from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Apostolos Siopis has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market30 Aug 2027
Efthymios Lampropoulos steps up from the Kifisia academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Efthymios Lampropoulos has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
In brief
- Boardroom Kifisia are making the ground bigger
- Match Kifisia draw a blank against Aris Thessaloniki
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Benny