From Flying Kiwis.
https://theworldgame.sbs.com.au/tony-popovic-sacke...
Ooookay, didn’t see this coming. Tony Popovic is already out at Xanthi, despite coming off a win and despite only being in charge for nine games and despite having been hand-picked by the club’s Aussie owner to take charge of their quest for promotion. And the club statement that announced the sacking (“The Board of Directors of AO XANTHI PAE, announces the immediate end of its cooperation with the Team Coach, Tony Popovic.”) only had two paragraphs and no explanation. Didn’t even make it to their twitter account.
It sounds like Popovic’s style of play hasn’t gone down too well, some chat about the local players not buying what Poppa’s selling. Callan Elliot hasn’t made his debut for the club but has been on the bench a couple times. Not sure what this means for him or indeed for any of the Aussie guys that Popovic brought over, SBS are reporting that they’re all shocked and they got some anonymous quotes from one of the ex-A-Legaue dudes that basically said: what, did they expect us to win every game 5-0 or something? Safe to say Pop’s two sons won’t be chuffed, we’ll see how Callan Elliot who wasn’t even playing anyway shakes out in due course. Who’d have though Popovic would last an even shorter time at Xanthi than Kevin Muscat did at STVV?