Soccer

Greece failed to advance to the 2014 World Cup quarter-finals due to a missed penalty  World Cup fans still talk about Greece's football journey in the 2014 FIFA World Cup that ended in the final 16 after a tough battle...

Maybe as Chelsea’s football manager he's tough and strict with his team, but even Jose Mourinho needs some relaxing time with his family. The Portuguese manager is in Greece and enjoys his family holiday in the island of Mykonos. According...

(AP) — Greece's World Cup players want their bonus money to be used to build a new training site for the national team in the cash-strapped country. Yiannis Andrianos, the government's general secretary for sports, said Monday that players had...

When you lose in a World Cup it hurts, you cry, you suffer. It’s an awful feeling. Yet, you can lose and still feel proud! The Greek National Soccer Team lost in its game against Costa Rica in the...

(AP) — Greece captain Giorgos Karagounis retired from international football Sunday after his country's World Cup elimination in a penalty shootout loss to Costa Rica. Karagounis leaves as Greece's most capped player with 139 appearances over 15 years since making...

Benjamin Williams, the 37-year-old Australian referee, will take control over the match between Greece and Costa Rica today. Matthew Cream and Jan Anaz, both from Australia as well, will be assistant referees. It will be the third World Cup match for...

RECIFE, Brazil (AP) — The Greece squad surprised its critics to make the second round of the World Cup and has delighted its people back home left downcast by the financial crisis. It's not winning many fans in Brazil, though. Greece...

Greece's National Team trained for the last time in Aracaju, Brazil on Friday, ahead of its next challenge tomorrow night.  Coach Fernando Santos revealed the lineup of the Greek team ahead of the game against Costa Rica. Orestis Karnezis, Greece’s goalkeeper, seems to have...

After a record of 136 goals in the first 48 games, tomorrow the World Cup is taking it's final 16 teams to the knockout stage where usually the surprise teams collapse and the favorites stand. Let's take a...

The story of Jay Beatty has moved the world. Τhe 11-year-old Irish boy suffers from Down syndrome, but that never discouraged him from supporting his favorite team, Celtic of Glasgow. Jay’s idol is ''Sammy,'' his nickname for Georgios Samaras, and even...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - This World Cup just got a whole lot easier for Costa Rica. According to the rankings, anyway. Having left former champions Uruguay, Italy and England behind to sensationally win their group — one of the...

  See the 16 qualified teams for the 2014 World Cup knockout stages (second stage) and their final statistics: group results and standings, top scorers, goals, points. GOODBYE SPAIN AND ITALY After two weeks of constant football, the 20th World Cup group...

Georgios Samaras’ penalty pick against Ivory Coast in the last minute of the game gave Greece not only a victory, but also the passage to the last 16 round of the World Cup. The Greek national team players were...

Greece’s manager, Fernando Santos is one of the happiest people on earth. His changes in the team’s line up, as well as the three substitutions he made, helped Greece to produce another great upset in soccer history. The 60-year-old...

International media praised the Greek national soccer team for its qualification to the next round of the World Cup in Brazil, after winning Ivory Coast 2-1 on Tuesday evening. The French newspaper "L'Equipe" said that "The elephants fell from Olympus"...