Departments
The club fields teams in many sports, including athletics, cycling, boxing, chess, fencing and table tennis, but its most popular teams primarily compete in association football, basketball, volleyball, handball and futsal. AEK being an amateur all-round sports club with the mission to create and advance as many sports as is feasible, its main professional and semiprofessional teams operate independently albeit in affiliation with it.
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“Some of these men had become abstrusely entangled with the spying departments of other nations and would give an amusing jump if you came from behind and tapped them on the shoulder.”
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