Greek Soccer

ATHENS - Alexandros Nikolaidis is a real Greek, an imposing 6-7 Evzone of a man and a two-time Silver Medalist in Tae Kwan Do in the Olympics – in Athens in 2004 and Beijing in 2008 - and the...

TALLINN, ESTONIA - Greece’s national under-19 football (soccer) team made it to the finals of the European championship after defeating England 2-1 in extra time. It was the second time a Greek team has made it that far. The...

Bild newspaper seems to be focusing on nothing but the Greek National Team. Once again, a German journalist chose to write about Friday's Euro 2012 football match. Acting like a more modern Big Brother, or more like James Bond (as...

The upcoming Euro Cup match between the national teams of Germany and Greece is taking on unprecedented dimensions, turning into more than a mere matter of sports. As announced by the deputy spokesperson of Berlin, Georg Streiter, Angela Merkel will...

Imagine being a Palestinian playing against Israel, a Tibetan playing against China or a Kurd playing against Turkey. Now, all three peoples I mentioned are about to lose their identity since their countries are not even politically recognized, so...

Continuing with our Defenders: GIORGOS TZAVELLAS A year before I joined Terspithea in D' Ethniki (4th division in Greece) back in 2006, their best player was Giorgios Tzavellas. Then I took over...(!) I had heard stories about him, one of which...

Two years after our latest journey to South Africa where we gathered 3 points in the group stage against Argentina (loss), S. Korea (loss) and Nigeria (win), our "Galanolefki" is back in action. We are traveling to Eastern Europe...

The Posidonia Shipping Exhibition is expected to provide Athens with almost 50 million euros, with 17,000 people from 90 different countries, of which 10,000 belong to high-paid classes. Posidonia is the world's biggest shipping exhibition and will take place in...

ATHENS – As crowds gathered under the tree in Syntagma Square where retired pharmacist Dimitris Christoulas, 77, killed himself because he said his pension had been cut by a heartless government to the point where he couldn’t buy medicine...

The Greek football league, Superleague, will be suspended for one week at the end of the month in protest at a new sporting law that has also drawn criticism from FIFA. League organizers said Friday that scheduled games will not...