Τhe all time classic DERBY is back in town. PROODEFTIKI vs ionikos on Sunday

The DERBY is back again.

Preparations for the squads, daily workout of the players, match strategies from the coach are done and of course the fans organizing the spectators event for the local DERBY PROODEFTIKI vs Ionikos on Sunday 3rd of March.  
Kick - off time is 3:00pm greek time.

Everybody involved in this classical  Derby of Greek football is working hard to achieve ''the result''

Historicaly  (since some 50 years by now)  PROODEFTIKI  has NEVER HAD A DEFEAT in a home game against Ionikos ...... probably a record for local Derby's worldwide.
And the target of ''PROO'' is to win the following match once again against the local rival. 

Thousands of fans of PROODEFTIKI will fill up the tribunes of ''the Cage''as usual at least 2 hours before the kick-off.  

Many of them will travel the whole day from all over Greece to be on time for the kick-off at ''the Cage'' 

The teams will entry the pitch in a ''hot'' arthmospere before the start.

The possibility of a live streaming transmission exists but is not yet officialy announced if Sportal TV will broadcast the DERBY.

The match is critical as both teams want to win the 3 points for different reasons.

We will inform all supporters of PROODEFTIKI with the latest developments (Live transmission or not, squad updates,  etc) on Saturday evening before the match.

FC PROODEFTIKI returned from Crete with a great win against Episkopi

   Proodeftiki collected  3 points playing away against        FC Episkopi past Sunday, with an excellent performance on the muddy pitch of the Rethymnon Stadium. 


The rain during the 1st half resulted that the first 45 min. (0-0 halftime) did not helped the squad to perform as planned, but the comeback in the second half and the excellent tactic and performance of the squad brought the positive result (0-2 final), that is a milestone for the next matches and the aim to leave behind the relegation zone of the 5th group in the 3rd National Greek football league. 

Some supporters of  ''PROO'', that travelled to Crete, watched the game in the stadium and celebrated the first away win of the team, while hundreds of supporters had the chance to follow the game on their computers and mobile devices due to the LIVE VIDEO STREAMING via facebook APP, organized by the supporters of our club.

You may watch here bellow, a  video including both goals and the best moments of the match, as recorded and posted ,by the local club.


Following game info against Atsalenios club, will be posted on Saturday 26th January 2019.

PROODEFTIKI travells to Crete for a positive result in the match against FC Episkopi

With faith and the target to leave with at least 1 point or the 3 points of a win, travels PROODEFTIKI to Rethymnon / Crete where on Sunday (20/JAN/2019) at 15:00 the squad will play against  FC Episkopi for the 15th match-day of the 5th group of the 3rd National Greek Football Division.

The next opponent of "PROO" is in the 5th place in the Leagues table with 21 points and with an offensive line that is the most productive of the group, having achieved  to score 24 goals and with key striker in the lineup, the top League scorer Nikos Katsikokeris who has achieved the 1/3 of these ( 8 goals) . 

 On the contrary, the defensive line of FC Episkopi with 13 times seeing the ball in their own net, shows some weaknesses in having failed keeping the opponent team at 0 in 5 of the 6 home games played.

 Without their coach Stefanides, who was sent off the pitch in the previous match, and has no right to be on the bench, will FC Episkopi  line up on Sunday.  As well as 3 missing important players due to red cards. Latest news of the week are also the withdrawal of two of the team's goalkeepers who had participated in previous games.

                

On the other hand the coach of PROODEFTIKI, Margaritis Chatzialexis, pointed out in an interview during the week, that every remaining match for the championship is likely to be  ‘’a final’’ and any point  that will be achieved in away games will be a positive result in the battle that everyone  in the "Crimson" squad will participate to save the club from relegation to the local divisions of Pireus. 

                                                                

  

The only missing player for PROO will be the punished with red card Tzitzikalakis during past game against Ethnikos Pireus, while expected is the participation of the striker Vlachos who returned to our club, by signing again up during past week

       

The squad of PROO, will travel by Ferry-boat on Saturday night to Crete and probably the starting  lineup of our club will not have many differences compared to those played against  Ethnikos Piraeus (1-1 final) in the previous Match past Sunday.   

  

You will be able to follow the written live information of the match on Sunday, by connecting to  the Facebook page of  Crimson Club, while efforts are made to transmit the match with live streaming  by traveling to Crete supporters,  that the latest information resume  to have some 100 traveling to Crete fans attending and supporting PROODEFTIKI in the stadium of Rethymnon.

The 2nd round of the League starts with a classical derby of Pireus PROODEFTIKI vs Ethnikos

   After the possitive for FC PROODEFTIKI result past Sunday (1-1 draw) played away against Ambelakiakos at Salamis island, the club returns to the ''Cage''  for the 1st home game of the new year, that is as well  the starting game of the 2nd round of this years fixings.

    The position on the table is still showing PROO in an unlikely rank that has to be changed and the team has to climb several ranking positions to ''save'' the remain in the 3rd National League for next season. 

   The ''commity'' managing the club, since late December, has proceeded in the past days, spending an serious amount to significant changes in the roster of the Football division'' of  PROODEFTIKI,  by signing some well known and experienced players, in order to help the team to recover and to ''save the category'' at the end of this championship.


   So the derby of Sunday 13th January 2019 (first home game) is a very critical for both teams  as PROODEFTIKI will ai to avoid relegation while Ethnikos is looking for its lost chance of past season to promote to the higher League. At present and competing the 12 games of the 1st round PROODEFTIKI holds the 10th rank, sill 4 points away from the tables rank that will save the category, while Etnikos holds the 2nd rank in the table 1 point only away from the ''promoting'' top of the table of the 5th group in the 3rd National football category of Greece. 

      Expexted is that the match at home for  PROODEFTIKI will be the most visited game of this seasons , while it is not clear yet if supporters of Ethnikos will arrive at the ''Cage'' to attend the match.

Starting 2019 with a critical match away on Salamis island.

  Welcoming you all back for the 1st posting in 2019,  our ''crew'' of the blog, will bring you on your screen the latest information about the club and the championship it is participating as often as possible during this year.

  Significant changes happened during the past weeks in the club .....   lots of work has still to be done!

  A ''salvation commity'' is running and managing  the club, since early Christmass days,  as former officers (managers and coaches) had to step back, following the latest negative game results during the last matches of the previous year, resulting an unpleasant and dangerous position for relegation in the 5th group table for Proodeftiki.

  Already a number of players left the squad, as a result of their weak performance during critical games where PROODEFTIKI was defeated in matches away and at home games and the first two new bookings of experienced players are already completed and announced in the press, while the members of the commity are working hand-in-hand with the new head coach Margaritis Chatzialexis to strenghten the clubs roster ( returning as a head coach of the club after a positive period during  2011 championship)

  On Sunday 6th January 2019, Proodeftiki is playng away a very crucial match on Salamis island against the local club of Ampelakiakos completing the fixtures of the 1st round of the chamionship.



 The club will have during the match against Ampelakiakos the support of hundreds of fans travelling the short distance from Attika mainland to Salamis island by ferries despite the very cold weather conditions in Greece during these days.

SUNDAY 18th NOV 2018 with LIVE VIDEO STREAMING of the ''DERBY'' Ionikos - PROODEFTIKI .F.C.

  

The following away game for PROODEFTIKI, tomorrow Sunday 18th Noνember 2018 (starts at 17:00 / 5 pm Greek time) against Ionikos Nikeas (named also as the lokal ''Klassiko of Pireus'')  is for both teams,  the game of the year, as it will be transmitted lινe with internet streaming from SPORTAL tν and thousands of  supporters will be following liνe the transmission as usual. 

After some possitiνe results in the past 3 games (two home games won for ''PROO'' against Giouhtas & A.E. Neapoli both from Kreta island and one draw away against Keratsini)  Proodeftiki has managed to positioned better as before in the table of the 5th group of the 3rd National Greek Football league by ranking  in the 10th position in the leagues table with 7 points 

Both squads finished their weekly work - out  (preparing for the Derby) with open for the fans training sessions yesterday Friday, with many fans attending and supporting the squads and demanding to win the DERBY 

So lets await tomorrows game, hoping that it will be played in a ''normal atmosphere'' (instead of past seasons turbulent moments)  see the post of past seasons game here: Ionikos - PROODEFTIKI season 2017 - 2018

Heading for the first win tomorrow against SYNKA

As Proodeftiki lost as well in the last match against Atsalenios (1-0) in the away game in Heraklion / Crete past Sunday, there is a must to collect the first 3 points for the club tomorrow in the home game against AEEK SYNKA from Chania / Crete.

Match is starting at 4 pm Greek time (CET +2 H)
No indicaton so far if the match will be transmitted live from an internet  TV chanel with live streaming.

In the positive news from our club, is that ''Willy'' Tagbo is ready to participate after an injury from the cup game against Ampelakiakos.

The squad, played better than in previous matches past week in Heraklion and lost several very good chances to go away with a point.

Following is the video from past weeks game in Heraklion

FC PROODEFTIKI is traveling to Heraklion /Crete after the lost match past Sunday

As the home game against Episkopi Rethymnon (final 0-1) was a small surprise for the squad and the supporters, immediate action was taken beginnng of the week after head coach Gatsios stepped back from his position. 

The new head coach in charge is Dim. Kalykas having experience in coaching as well clubs from the 2nd National League and will be on the pitch during next game.

So the team was training hard the whole week for the next game (away in Heraklion / Crete) against Atsalenios, a tough playing squad,that PROO has played against 2 seasons ago, when clubs from Pireus and Crete met again in the same group of the league.

FC Proodeftiki has announced some further bookings of players during the week to complete the roster and to strike back in the championship of  the League as the club is at the last position of the 5th groups table.

Several supporters will follow the club to Crete by ferry, to watch the squad aiming for its first win in the new championship.

The match will be transmitted live via internet  on Sunday (starting at 4:00pm / CET +2h) by a local Cretan station telesport.gr

FC PROODEFTIKI - FC Episkopi Rethymno (pre-game)

Awaiting the first home game for FC PROODEFTIKI against F.C. Episkopi from Rethymno/Crete, (match starts 4.00 pm Greek local time tomorrow Sunday 7/OKT/2018) we are informing you kindly about some details about our blog and its operation.

This blog '' GlobalPROOtribe'' is most probably the ONLY greek blog operated by the supporters of a greek football club (of any league) that is available in English language.

The fans of PROODEFTIKI F.C. (Pireus . Greece) are welcoming you back .... to our blog ''GlobalPROOtribe'' GOOD Morning from Pireus/ Greece, to all friends & supporters of PROODEFTIKI F.C. living abroad.

After a long absence of 8 years, it was decided to re-operate this blog beginning of 2018 and to inform you again about our team PROODEFTIKI F.C. (only IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE) and its current situation during the championship that it is participating, as we are also hounouring 90 + YEARS of HISTORY of our club.

      Already since then, our blog's team, managed to do some postings referring the past seasons championship (2017 -2018) and to inform you about some important matches past season, - some videos of matches are uploaded as well in the relevant pages of the blog - when PROODEFTIKI FC lost the promotion from the group participating in the 3rd Greek National football league to the higher league (2nd category) named in Greece ''Football League 2''.

  This season 2018 - 2019, FC PROODEFTIKI participating again in the 3rd National Greek football league, in the 5th group with other 6 clubs from Pireus and 7 clubs from the local football associatons from Crete island.

  The championship started past weekend, while ''PROO'' lost away (3-1) against the hosting squad of Ethnikos Pireus.  The match is already posted in our blog earlier this week, while the ONLY available videos of the game can be seen at following links (as the ''PROO'' supporters, managed once again, to transmit the game live with streaming (via facebook APP) directly from the tribune in the municipal stadium of Kallithea.

First halftime video at following link (from the facebookpage of Crimson club)  
https://www.facebook.com/CrimsonClub/videos/286011032252700/

Second halftime video at following link (from the facebookpage of Crimson club) : 
https://www.facebook.com/CrimsonClub/videos/341784716397617/

 The squad has completed earlier today the practice session of the week for tomorrows importand match in ''the cage'' and all in the club are putting lots of efforts for a positive result tomorrow afternoon.

   Tomorrows match FC PROODEFTKI vs FC Episkopi Rethymnon, will be also transmitted with live streaming (via FB App) only for those resident abroad or resident in the greek province. 

In the case, you would like to watch the match live, contact the relevant FB group (Global PROO Community) at following link and request to be added into the group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/138947593465252/about/

In a satisfying match with 4 goals, Ethnikos Pireus defeated FC Proodeftiki by 3-1 overturning the match in the second half

     
    At the Municipal Stadium of Kallithea (an Athenian suburb),  the ''Crimsons'' (followed in the away match - opening the season - by more than 250 supporters)

surprised the hosts and took the lead in the 23rd minute with a shot by Kerasidis  (0-1) after a parallel ball of Tagbo (striker) right into the center of the penalty area,


but after they had the first good chance of the game to score earlier in the 11th minute, by a long shot of Dilaveris that hit the post.

0-1 was also the halftime standing of the first game of the season.


In the second half, the ''blue & whites'' returned to the pitch more determined to turn the match and within 6 minutes they did it.

In the 51st minute Manalis (Ethn) equalized the score with a header, after a kick - off by Romano, while in the 56th minute Pavlakis (Ethn) scored the second goal of Ethnikos with a header after a kick-off by Alexiou.

Thr final 3-1 was scored in the 92nd minute by Leventis (Ethn) with a shot outside the penallty area, after the ball hit a defender of Proodeftiki and changed route.


FC PROODEFTIKI: (coach Theo. Gatsios)
Bantikos, Tzitsikalakis, Xygakis (90' Tasioulis), Tziolas (75' Panagiotopoulos), Kottas, Vasiliou, Kerasidis, Kittos, Tagbo, Koliopoulos (65' Gogas), Dilaveris (60' Christou)


Next official game is a cup game of the Pireus Football Federation against Ampelakiakos (from Salamis island)
The game is sceduled for Wednesday 3rd October starting at 17:00 (greek local time)

The 5th group of the 3rd National Greek Football division – A brief presentation of the participating clubs in the group ( part No2 of 2) – The clubs from Pireus

After the compilation of the 8 groups for the new season starting September 30^th and the fixtures of the games of F.C. PROODEFTIKI that we have posted recently, we will present you briefly the clubs participating in the 5th group of the 3^rd National Greek football League continuing with the participating clubs from Pireus area

The 5th group will consist of 13 teams in total (6 clubs from Pireus football association and 7 clubs from Crete representing the 4 different local football associations of the island) from which the champion will be "promoted" directly to the higher division, from the 2nd till the 7th place ranking teams will "remain" in the category next season, while the others, the least six clubs of the group, will be relegated in the local leagues of their respective associations.

 As concerns the latest information and if approved and adopted by the EPO the Greek National Football association, the restructuring plans for the new Greek leagues, will allow 4 more clubs ending on the 2^nd rank of their respective groups tables will likely be promoted to the higher division, after play –off games to be held right after the end of the season. The final decision is still pending

Let's be informed briefly about the clubs participating in the 5th group of this year's 3rd Greek National Division continuing with the 6 clubs participating from Pireus in this post (part No 2 of 2 related posts) and in an earlier post the 7 teams representing the Cretan local football associations have been presented as well.

FC PROODEFTIKI

Established: 1927

Playing at home: in Nikea Municipal stadium /’’The Cage’’

 The squad consists basically of a roster with many young and upcoming players, which has not yet been completed. As expected experienced players are to be booked.

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ATROMITOS PIREUS

Established: 1926

Playing at home: in Agios Ioannis Rentis Municipal stadium / ‘’S. Melissourgos’’

Atromitos Piraeus resumes in 3^rd National Greek League after a brief absence, aiming to remain in the category this season. The club has booked early several players to complete the roster, while some additions have been made in recent days.

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AMPELAKIAKOS

Established: 1937

Playing at home: in Ampelakia stadium / Salamis island

 Ampelakiakos is appearing for the first time ever in the 3^rd National Greek League and will try in his first historical presence  to make the surprise not to relegate, having acquired some skilled players who can make the difference in the 5^th group of the league.

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KERATSINI

Established: 1926

Playing at home: ’’P. Salpeas’’ stadium / Keratsini

In the years of its presence in the 3^rd National Greek League the club has beaten even the toughest rivals of any group it was playing. Additions were made to the roster, after the withdrawal of some players but without probably covered effectively the gaps that are left.

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ETHNIKOS PIREUS

Established: 1923

Playing at home: in Municipality stadium of Kallithea / Athens

Remains almost with an equally strong squad as past season, with selectively added skilled players. Important though, is the booking of head coach Loukas Karadimos and his staff, who trained past season the club of F.C. PROODEFTIKI and is well known for his job.

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IONIKOS

Established: 1965

Playing at home: in the Municipality stadium of Neapoli / Nikea

The arrival of a new President has resulted changes and excitement with a primary focus on the cooperation with FC Larisa (owned by the presidents family) from which club arrived some players who will strengthen the team. 

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