The Greek
\nfootball club PAOK Thessaloniki, currently coached by Razvan Lucescu, has won
\nthe Greek championship. In the last but one round, Lucescu’s trainees trounced
\nLevadiakos 5-nil on home turf. Following this result, PAOK reached 77 points in
\nthe tables, five more than the runner-up Olympiakos Piraeus and mathematically
\nsecured the title.<\/p>\n
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PAOK has
\npreviously won the championship twice, in 1976 and 1985. The team missed the chance
\nto win the title last season due to the fan-provoked incidents in the matches
\nplayed against Olympiakos and AEK Athens. <\/p>\n
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Football pundits
\nclaim PAOK’s triumph this season is mainly owed to the team’s head coach,
\nRazvan Lucescu. Lucescu took over PAOK in 2017 and has already won the Greek
\nCup. If the team wins the Super League at the end of May and secures the
\ntreble, Lucescu may become the most important coach in the club’s history. The
\nonly other coach who obtained similar results was Les Shannon, who in the 1970s
\nwon the two Greek Cups and the Greater Greece Cup, a trophy pitting the winners
\nof the Greek Cup and the Cypriot Cup as challengers on Easter day. Shannon
\nhowever never won the Greek domestic championship with PAOK. <\/p>\n
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Razvan Lucescu
\nis the son of the former football legend and coach Mircea Lucescu. He was born
\non February 17, 1969 in Bucharest. As a player he played as goalkeeper for
\nseveral teams in Romania, including Sportul Studentesc, FC National, FC Brasov
\nand Rapid Bucharest. His spell at Rapid brought Razvan his most notable
\nresults, also as a coach. He won two Romanian Cups, while in 2006 he got the
\nteam through to the UEFA Cup quarterfinals, after knocking out teams such as
\nFeynoord Rotterdam, Shakhtar Donetsk, Hertha Berlin and SV Hamburg. Rapid at
\nthe time lost the quarterfinals to Steaua Bucharest. In 2009 and 2011 Lucescu
\nalso trained Romania’s national team. He started coaching in Greece in 2014,
\nwhen he took over the club Skoda Xanthi.
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