Almeida gives AEK players the biggest motivation ahead of Dinamo Zagreb

The shock it caused throughout her body AEK the murder of Michalis Katsouris with the hooligan raid on New Philadelphia on Monday night is not so easily overcome…

The team’s family is possessed by a strange mixture of emotions, mourning for a 29-year-old friend of the group they killed, but at the same time anger for those who allowed something like this to happen while they had all the evidence and means to prevent it, while the attitude of UEFA and Dinamo Zagreb causes at least irritation.

THE Matias Almeida he has been facing for a few days now the most difficult situation he had to manage in his career. From a team with psyche and confidence soaring, looking from the friendlies in even better shape than last season’s historic double, suddenly saw the heavy shadow of tragic events affect – as is humanly possible – everyone in their ranks AEK.

The Argentinian coach, however, has not stopped working on the games with her Dinamo Zagreb and tries to keep his players focused on the goal. In fact, in discussions with them, “Pelados” offers its footballers the biggest motivation: to bring some joy to the world of AEK, who is also “frozen” with developments. Everyone was looking forward to these games, the first European games at Opap Arena, with great anticipation, however what happened took away that joy and anticipation. A possible qualification against Dinamo Zagreb will not bring Michalis back, unfortunately, nor will it heal the wounds of the injured and repair the wounds left by the hooligans’ murderous raid, but it will certainly give the friends of the “Union” a smile. Matias Almeida knows this very well and after all, this is what Michalis would have wanted too…

The preparation, meanwhile, continues without problems. THE Domagoi Vida is now at 100% and will compete on Tuesday, while at 100% are now also Sergio Araujo and Mijat Gacinovic.