Amazing coincidence: Pablo Garcia was the previous PAOK player to score with a direct corner kick

A rare event occurred in his Saturday game PAOK with Panserraikos, for the 12th matchday of the Stoiximan Super League.

Kirill Despodov managed to score with a direct corner kickmaking it 4-0 in the 74th minute for the “Double Header of the North” against Serraios.

Goals that way they don’t come in often and the Bulgarian ace managed to enter a separate list of footballers.

The previousin fact, a “black and white” player who had found the net in a similar way was the man sitting on the visitors’ bench at the Toumba stadium. Pablo Garcia!

The Uruguayan technician he had managed to score with a direct corner kickin PAOK’s 4-0 away win over Corfu on 25/3/2012, and this was his last goal in the team’s shirt (he left in January 2014).

A total of six players have managed to do something similar.

The… corner players of PAOK

25/11/2023 | Kirill Despodov | PAOK-Panserraikos 5-0

25/3/2012 | Pablo Garcia Corfu-PAOK | 0-4

2/12/1983 | Christos Dimopoulos | PAOK-Iraklis 1-1

21/3/1982 | George Koudas | PAOK-Kavala 3-1

19/3/1967 | Anestis Afentoulidis | PAOK-Olympiakos 2-0

29/12/1963 | Leandros Simeonidis | Panionios-PAOK 5-1

The last scorer with a direct corner kick, at Super League level, it was Luis Palmawho had scored in this way in Aris’ 2-1 victory over Olympiakos.

The absolute… corner player in the Greek league is Vassilis Hatzipanagis with five accurate executions, while Despontov became the 66th player in the first division of the Greek league with such an achievement.