About us
Christos Papadimitriou

From a young age he had a passion for sports. From the moment he started at the age of 8 in the academies of Athinaikos, he worked tirelessly for his dream of becoming a professional footballer. At the age of 18, he signed his first professional contract with his favorite team, AEK Athens.

It wasn't until he was 19 that he managed to fulfill his second dream of playing abroad, signing with Red Bull Leipzig a year later. During his ten years, Christos played for various teams, including FC Liefering (a subsidiary of Red Bull Salzburg) and FC Energie Cottbus, and lived in various European countries.

In 2023, he completed his degree in sports management at the University of Denmark while playing for an Austrian club in Vienna, where he currently resides.

His love for sports and his dedication to helping others inspired him to create PODBALL. PODBALL provides services specific to the needs of each athlete with the primary goal of improving his or her performance. Part of this effort is the PODBALL show which invites athletes and experts from the sporting world to share their unique journey.

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Mike Psimitis

Ever since he can remember, he has been involved in sports. To be clear, not as an athlete, although at a young age he had tried a little bit of everything. He likes more to watch and record.

At 12 he had already decided that he would become a sports journalist, his friends called him "the sports encyclopedia". Football, basketball, volleyball, track and field, tennis, formula, anything to do with sports interests him ad nauseam. Of course, football is the "king of sports" for him too and Liverpool is his great weakness.

In 2018 she graduated from the Department of Communication and Media of the University of Athens. Today she works in this field as a social media manager - journalist in one of the leading sports websites in Greece gazzeta.gr.

The suggestion for PODBALL: the sports journey talk came at a time in his life when he was strangely far from being involved with... the courts. PODBALL is the show that he always asked for as a viewer: no loud voices, no cheap sensationalism and no fan glasses.

The concept is simple and meaningful: Two hosts, their guests and interesting discussions about their careers!

Manos Smirlakis

His love for sports found a home from a very young age when he began playing soccer. Soon, his dream of becoming a professional soccer player started to grow, becoming a life goal. He engaged in rigorous training and matches, while simultaneously keeping up with his school obligations.

In the summer of 2017, he left his hometown of Thessaloniki to move to Crete to join Platanias Chania, where a year later he signed his professional contract. He played for Platanias for three years.

The Greek football reality and a combination of circumstances led him to make the brave and tough decision to leave the fields at a young age and focus on his studies. This way, he could continue to be involved in the sports world but from a different perspective.

Today, as a sports nutrition expert at PODBALL, he uses his academic knowledge in the field of nutrition and his experience as a former professional football player to advise professional athletes who wish to increase their athletic performance and achieve the best in their careers, as well as young athletes who want to make their dream come true by reaching the professional level.

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