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Olympiakos, one for Pierikos. In the 52', Olympiakos' player Sanopoulos was eliminated, while in the 57' Pierikos' player Taxidis and Olympiakos' Tsakiridis, they saw the red card from the Portuguese referee Guinea. The winning goal came from Kefalides in the 89' with a powerful shot from outside the penalty box. Kefalidis as a fast player took the ball in his possession from the back, passed 5-6 Olympiakos' players and when he reached the opponent's penalty box shot and scored. The festivities on the stands were frantic. The sporty Pieria sees the dream come true. There is only one step left for the qualification ... the game versus Hercules Kavala's F.C.
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again. According to its statutes, Pierikos' colours were white. There was no mention of a second colour, but there had to be a second different colour to distinguish the numbers on the jerseys, so black was used as the second auxiliary colour. The colour selection was not random. It had been decided that the colour would be out of the "cliché" colours of the "football establishment" at that times (old times
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Panathinaikos scored 3-0 with two goals by Fulidis and one by Bikas. The first signs are positive ... On June 4 of the same year, the statute is signed.
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Katerini did not long to become the "football mom" of the country. Pierikos in front, and entire Katerini follows, Katerini who loved this sport so much, raised it high, "worshiped it as a religion". The dream, the hope and
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This match was very tough, almost like a final, as whoever won would be promoted to the First
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Hercules Kavala's, where he was leveled after failing to beat him, drawing a 0-0 draw, in the last match in Katerini. The match took place on the Aris stadium with 12,000 spectators. A 1-0 lead for Pierikos came in the 57' from Bikas who
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was the basketball section of S.F.K. Pierikos. The sport was added in 1969, following the club policy to expand. At the time of the section's merged in 2008, it was the second most successful section of S.F.K. Pierikos next after the
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football events. The shirt emblem it was difficult for the seamstress of the time to embroider on the jersey the regenerated Phoenix by its ash, instead of that, it was preferred to sew a circular
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