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Greek Teenage Football Star Signs with Germany's Leverkusen

Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen has signed teenage defender Panagiotis Retsos from Greek football champions Olympiacos Piraeus, on a five-year deal, worth a reported 22 million euros. Retsos headed coach Heiko Herrlich's wish list as the German club seeks a return...

Tough Draw for Olympiacos Piraeus in Champions League Group Stage

Mission Impossible? Looks like it for Greek football champions Olympiacos Piraeus in Group D of the UEFA Champions League draw, where they will be facing Italian champions Juventus, Spanish Cup holders (and international powerhouse) Barcelona and Portuguese side Sporting...

Good and Bad news for Greek Clubs in UEFA draw

Friday's UEFA draw for both the Champions League and the Europa League play-offs reserved both bad and good news for Greek football clubs. Four out of the initial five Greek teams (Olympiacos Piraeus, Panathinaikos, PAOK Salonika and AEK Athens)...

Olympiacos Knocked Out of the Champions League

Olympiacos F.C. were unable to secure a result that would put them through to the round of 16 of the UEFA Champions League after suffering a 0-3 defeat to Arsenal at the Karaiskakis Stadium on Wednesday evening. Arsenal striker Olivier...

Panathinaikos Handed Heavy Fine Over Olympiacos Game Clashes

Panathinaikos F.C. is likely to lose 1.2 million euros due to the incidents that took place on the day of Greece's biggest soccer derby. The Greek Superleague's disciplinary committee has punished Panathinaikos for the extensive clash that took place before...

Greek Derby Postponed As Fans Clash with Riot Police (video)

Saturday's "Derby of the Eternal Enemies" was doomed before kick off. The Greek Superleague's fixture between Panathinaikos F.C. and Olympiacos F.C., Greece's most fierce athletic rivalry, was marred by clashes between Panathinakos supporters and riot police, around as well as inside Panathinaikos's Apostolos Nikolaidis Stadium,...

Greece's Biggest Soccer Derby Kicks Off

The Greek Superleague is often a competition for bragging rights more than anything else. No other fixture reflects this better than the upcoming clash between Panathinaikos F.C. and Olympiacos F.C., at Panathinaikos's "Apostolos Nikolaidis Stadium" on Saturday. "The Derby of the Eternal Enemies",...

Champions League: Olympiacos Defeats Dinamo Zagreb

Olympiacos F.C. claimed an important 0-1 victory over Dinamo Zagreb on Tuesday evening at Croatia to get one step closer to qualification from the group stage to the UEFA Champions League's last 16 round. Ideye broke the deadlock at the 79th minute...

Olympiacos Beats Arsenal 3-2 in Thrilling Champions League Encounter

Greek soccer team Olympiacos F.C. overcame Arsenal on Tuesday evening in what could go down as a classic UEFA Champions League match. The game was ignited in the 33rd minute, when Olympiacos midfielder Felipe Pardo took a shot from outside the box that...

Olympiacos Loses to Bayern Munich as German Team's Fans Clash with Greek Police

Bayern Munich proved too powerful for Olympiacos F.C. in the first UEFA Champions League fixture of Group F on Wednesday, in an encounter that was eventful before the match even began. More than an hour prior to kick-off, Bayern Munich fans clashed with Greek riot police...