The Greek National Soccer Team may have satisfied fans with its performance in the 1-1 friendly draw with Italy on Wednesday, but the fans did not satisfy the team with turnout for the game.
No more than 8,000 fans watched Greece’s match against world champion Italy at the Karaiskaki Stadium in Piraeus, which led to calls [...]
November 24, 2008 | Posted in
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On a somewhat barren Super League weekend, with just 13 goals in eight games, the rise of Xanthi to the second spot on the table was overshadowed yesterday by serious rioting between Iraklis and PAOK fans and the resignation of Demis Nikolaidis as President of AEK soccer club.
At least four Iraklis fans were injured, one [...]
November 3, 2008 | Posted in
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National soccer side to miss Giorgos Karagounis and Giourkas Seitaridis tonight > Greece’s players prepare for tonight’s World Cup qualifying group clash with Moldova at the Karaiskaki Stadium. The match kicks off at 9.30 p.m.
Moldova is Greece’s next hurdle tonight on the road to the World Cup soccer finals. Hosting the game at the [...]
October 12, 2008 | Posted in
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When Anorthosis Famagusta play their first ever Champions League game today, they will also be carrying the hopes of thousands of Greek-Cypriot refugees.
Anorthosis became the first Cypriot team to reach the Champions League group stage after knocking out Greek side Olympiakos 3-1 on aggregate in the final qualifying round.
The achievement was not only heralded as [...]
September 16, 2008 | Posted in
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What Panathinaikos fans have eagerly anticipated for many years has finally begun, as work on the soccer club’s new ground began yesterday in the Athens district of Votanikos.
Early in the morning, bulldozers started leveling the site that will host the land development for Panathinaikos’s sports complex on Aghiou Polykarpou Street, western Athens. According to construction [...]
September 14, 2008 | Posted in
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The new sports center will cost up to 20 million euros and is due to be ready by next June.
The AEK soccer team players will be training at a brand new complex by next summer, it was revealed yesterday, as the club said that it had secured a site east of Athens. AEK has [...]
September 4, 2008 | Posted in
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A maximum of six points is required from the first two matches
The National Team is training in Athens ahead of the two games it will play in the next week for the 2010 World Cup qualifying stage. Morale appears high and the team is expected to return from Luxembourg and Latvia with all six [...]
September 4, 2008 | Posted in
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