{"id":874969,"date":"2025-09-03T15:11:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T12:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paokfc.gr\/uncategorized-en\/20250903-oi-kliseis-ton-diethnon-tou-paok\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T11:20:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T08:20:13","slug":"20250903-oi-kliseis-ton-diethnon-tou-paok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paokfc.gr\/en\/news\/20250903-oi-kliseis-ton-diethnon-tou-paok\/","title":{"rendered":"International call-ups and fixtures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The start of the season for our internationals is here as <strong>Greece<\/strong> enters the battle for qualification for the <strong>2026 World Cup<\/strong>. Head coach <strong>Ivan Jovanovic<\/strong> called up <strong>Giannis Konstantelias<\/strong> and <strong>Dimitris Pelkas<\/strong> for the home games against <strong>Belarus (05.09, 21:45)<\/strong> and <strong>Denmark (08.09, 21:45),<\/strong> which will be held at the <strong>Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Andrija Zivkovic<\/strong> has been called up for <strong>Serbia<\/strong> for the away game against <strong>Latvia (06.09)<\/strong> and the home game against <strong>England (09.09)<\/strong> for the <strong>World Cup<\/strong> qualifiers. <strong>Kiril<\/strong> <strong>Despodov<\/strong> is of course also part of <strong>Bulgaria&#8217;s<\/strong> squad for the home match against <strong>Spain (04.09)<\/strong> and the away match with <strong>Georgia (07.09),<\/strong> also for the <strong>2026 World Cup<\/strong> qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tomasz Kedziora<\/strong> returns for <strong>Poland<\/strong> for the away match with the <strong>Netherlands<\/strong> for the <strong>World Cup<\/strong> qualifiers on <strong>04.09,<\/strong> and for the home match with <strong>Finland<\/strong>\u00a0on <strong>07.09.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Luka Gugesashvili<\/strong> also has obligations with the <strong>Georgian<\/strong> national team for the <strong>World Cup<\/strong> qualifiers. 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