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Fenerbahce Target Fulham FC’s Kostas Mitroglou

Fenerbahce are set to make an offer for Fulham FC’s out of favor striker Kostas Mitroglou. According to getwestlondon, Fenerbahce are preparing a swap deal which involves Emmanuel Emenike for the Greek international. Mirtoglou has scored 19 goals in 32 appearances...

Fulham FC Continues With Mitroglou, Abidal Signs for Olympiacos (video)

Former Barcelona defender, Eric Abidal has signed for one year with Greek champions Olympiacos. Abidal, who played for Barcelona for six years from 2007, was first diagnosed with a liver tumor in March 2011 and a year later underwent...

Fulham Closing in on Greek Striker Kostas Mitroglou

Greek 25-year-old explosive striker, Kostas Mitroglou is one step closer to completing his transfer to the English football club Fulham. The “Cottagers” will sign the Greek hitman for 15 million euros. Greek champions Olympiacos have reached agreement with Fulham on...

The Most Expensive Greek Football Transfers in History

Football transfer procedures always involve a great deal of money by anyone's measure, and Greek football players and clubs know that very well. These amounts of money seem to increase every single year, with Greek and foreign football clubs spending more...

Bulgarian Superstar Dimitar Berbatov Signs for Greece's PAOK

Bulgarian striker Dimitar Berbatov has signed for Greek club PAOK F.C. on a free transfer. Berbatov, 34, was released by Monaco FC in the summer and was believed to sign for Aston Villa on Tuesday, last day of transfers in the British...

Puskas Award 2014: Ten Best Goals of the Season Announced (VIDEO)

Since 2009, FIFA has been presenting an award for the most beautiful goal of the season. Cristiano Ronaldo, Neymar and Zlatan Ibrahimovic have been amongst the previous winners with the latter being represented again with his wondrous back-heel goal...

Champions League: Kasami Stuns Juventus to Hand Olympiacos 1-0 Lead

Olympiakos pulled off their second stunning home win of the Champions League group stages this season as they beat Juventus 1-0 on Wednesday. The lone goal of the game came courtesy of a first-half strike by Pajtim Kasami; with Olympiakos...

Greek National Team: Claudio Ranieri's picks for the EURO 2016 Qualifiers Against FInland and N. Ireland

    The European qualifiers are back in action next week with two crucial Greek games against Finland away (Saturday, October 11th) and N. Ireland (Tuesday, October 14th) at home. Coach Claudio Ranieri chose to invite twenty-five players for training at the Agios...

Champions League: Malmo 2, Olympiacos 0

Two goals from Markus Rosenberg gave Malmo a surprise Champions League victory over Olympiacos at the Swedbank Stadion. The Greek champions, eager to build off  their opening day victory over Atletico Madrid, were on the front foot early on with...

Captain Georgios Karagounis to Work with Ranieri

Recently retired Greece international captain Georgios Karagounis was handed a new role where he is set to work alongside coach Claudio Ranieri, the Greek football federation said. The board of directors of the federation "unanimously approved the recommendation of President...

Four World Cup Greeks Still in Search of a Team

  Four Greek players who have participated in World Cups (2010 or 2014) have just one day left to decide the next stop in their career. The official deadline for free agent transfers (players whose contracts have expired and don't belong to...

Mitroglou Returning to Olympiacos

Greek soccer champions Olympiacos have arranged for striker Kostas Mitroglou to return to the team as a loan from Fulham FC. According to an Olympiacos spokesman, the club was in talks with Mitroglou after the striker arrived in Greece, while the agreement could be...

Kostas Manolas Moves to AC Roma for €15m

Kostas Manolas signed for AC Roma, a week before the end of the summer's transfer window to replace Mehdi Benatia who moves to Bayern Munich. Olympiacos, the young player's club till yesterday, will bank in €13m from the deal...

8 Greek soccer players that make ends meet abroad

Sokratis Dioudis, Kostas Stafylidis, Tryfonas Kazviropoulos, Panayotis Tachtsidis, Lazaros Christodoulopoulos, Stefanos Kapino, Apostolos Vellios, Nikos Ioannidis. Some of these names are familiar to the ear, some are unheard of, all of the above, though, have signed contracts in the...

Goalless Greece Takes on Resurgent Ivorians

FORTALEZA, Brazil (AP) — After a troubled start, the smiles are returning to West Africa at the World Cup. Nigeria has earned its first victory after a stalemate with Iran, and Ghana held Germany to a 2-2 draw after losing...