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 [...]
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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 [...]
Nikos Nioplias to stay on as Panathinaikos coach
Nikos Nioplias will stay on as Panathinaikos coach until the end of next season after renewing his contract with the Greek club. Under the 45-year-old”s guidance, Panathinaikos won the domestic double last season. “I am especially happy to be given the chance to continue our work and keep Panathinaikos at the top,” Nioplias, who took [...]
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 [...]
Ex-PAOK president, convicted embezzler, arrested in Libya
Businessman and former PAOK soccer club president Giorgos Batatoudis (photo), who has been wanted by Greek authorities since March 2009 after being sentenced to 10 years in prison for embezzlement, has been arrested in Libya, it was revealed yesterday. Batatoudis was caught after Greece issued an international warrant for his arrest. Batatoudis was found guilty [...]
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 [...]
Nikopolidis quits after 20 years of Service
(GREEKSOCCER.com) Antonis Nikopolidis has announced he is retiring from the game of football after meeting with Olympiacos CFP executives on Monday. The former Greece international has decided to call it quits after twenty-years in the game. A native of Arta, Greece, Nikopolidis’ youth career was given a boost when he signed his first professional contract [...]
Greece’s national Soccer team arrived in South Africa
Greece’s national football team arrive today at the King Shaka international airport in Durban [...]
Leto to replace Di Maria at Benfica?
(GREEKSOCCER.com) Late evening reports emanating from Portugal on Friday have linked SL Benfica with a € 10 million offer sheet for Panathinaikos FC midfielder Sebastian Leto. The Argentine is the reported target of the Lisbon-based side as Benfica are looking for alternate options in the cse that talisman Angel Di Maria joins Real Madrid in [...]
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Calendar – Exhibits, Concerts, Fun
- Thessaloniki: 50 Year Anniversary Commemorated of Seferis Literature Nobel Prize May 23, 2012
- ‘Doctors of the World’ International Conference to be Held in Greece May 22, 2012
- Crete is a Mediterranean ‘Treasure’ of Aromatic Plants and Herbs May 22, 2012
- Crete to Export Products to Australia May 21, 2012
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