Lisi era begins
Alessio Lisi is your new manager. PAOK confirmed the appointment Monday with a video featuring new sporting director Leo Matos welcoming the 40-year-old Italian (1) (2). The club statement laid it out plainly: "We begin to write the next chapter of our history together." Lisi comes from a coaching path that started in Lazio's academy and took him through Levante, Mirandés, and Osasuna in Spain (1). PAOK highlighted his clear football philosophy and obsession with daily work as the qualities that match the club's DNA (2). He arrives at Toumba with Lucescu closing in on a move to Al Sadd and Matos already on the ground shaping the squad with captain Vieirinha.