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Blaming Otto

Blaming Otto

What’s easier than stating the obvious? “Greece played terrible today, Otto SHOULD HAVE presented a different starting eleven, then picked different guys for substitutions and altogether selected a different national team” Bloody hell, even a person with no IQ level could make a statement like that, so let’s not demean ourselves by placing us to [...]

Energetic South Korea stuns Greece 2-0 at World Cup (Highlights)

The Greeks were outplayed and outrun for most of the game at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium [...]

Stakes are high for Greece, South Korea in Group B match at Port Elizabeth

South Korea and Greece, two teams with their best results of the decade well behind them [...]

Greek players victims of hotel robbery

Three Greece players at the World Cup have had money stolen from their hotel rooms, police say. Lt. Colonel Leon Engelbrecht said Thursday the unidentified players reported $1,921 had been stolen from their rooms on Tuesday night at the Beverly Hills Hotel (photo) in the resort of Umhlanga, just north of Durban. Engelbrecht said the [...]

Greece vs S.Korea «a 50-50 game»

Greece defensive midfielder Alexandros Tziolis stated on Thursday that the national team’s opener in Group B of the World Cup in South Africa on Saturday against South Korea is a 50-50 game, stressing the significane set pieces will have for Greece. “This is a 50-50 game, as no team has the advantage as such at [...]

Package scare at Greek training camp

Greece suffered a World Cup scare when a suspect package saw a police explosives unit called in after their training, an AFP photographer has said. The Greek side had completed their training session and were about to leave the plush boys school in north Durban where it was held when extra police with sniffer dogs [...]

Event of the Greek Community for the Greek National Team

A delegation of the national soccer team attended a formal event last night, organized by the Greek Community of Durban at the North Hellenic Community Centre. In a room full of Greeks, George Karangounis, Fanis Gekas, Angelos Charisteas and Alexandros Tzorvas, along with the team manager of the National Greek Team, Takis Fyssas, signed many [...]

Greece’s national Soccer team arrived in South Africa

Greece’s national football team arrive today at the King Shaka international airport in Durban [...]

South Africa 2010: Rehhagel names his 23

Greece coach Otto Rehhagel stuck largely with the tried and trusted when he named his 23-man squad for the World Cup finals in South Africa on Tuesday. Rehhagel included both Giourkas Seitaridis and Christos Patsatzoglou who had been struggling with injuries. Giorgos Tzavellas, the Panionios left-back, however missed the cut, as did AEK’s holding midfielder [...]