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Former AEK President Nikolaidis Testifies
Demis Nikolaidis, former AEK Athens player and president, testified to the police on March 28 regarding the club’s unpaid taxes, and was released to give testimony next week to the Athens public prosecutor.
"I gave myself to the authorities of...
Business
Dimitrelos Arrested for AEK Debts
The president of the Greek football team AEK, Andreas Dimitrelos was arrested by two policemen of the Attica Police Directorate’s Financial Inspection Division for non-payment of debts towards the public, overall cost up to €170,865,122.
These are debts of AEK...
Greece
Soccer Player Katidis Sorry For Nazi Salute
After being barred for playing from the national team for life for giving a Nazi salute to celebrate scoring the winning goal for his team, AEK Athens, in a Greek league game, 20-year-old rising Greek soccer start Giorgos Katidis...
Greece
Soccer Player Giorgos Katidis Angers Fans With Nazi Salute; Pleads Ignorance (video)
AEK Athens midfielder Giorgos Katidis scored the winning goal in his team’s 2-1 Super League victory over Veria on Saturday but celebrated by giving the Nazi salute to spectators at the Olympic Stadium. The gesture earned rebukes from politicians, fellow...
Greece
Golden Dawn Sues Beaten MP For Libel
A member of the major opposition party Coalition of the Far Left (SYRIZA) who claimed he was beaten by three men at a soccer game who identified themselves as members of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party is being sued...
Greece
AEK Fans Occupy Training Ground
The AEK Athens supporters' group Original 21 occupied the struggling Greek club's training facilities on Dec. 14, in protest of the failure of the administration to secure new investors.
The club has been operating on a shoe-string budget following a...
Greece
AEK Athens Appoint Lienen as Coach
Troubled Greek giants AEK Athens have appointed German Ewald Lienen as coach after they suffered a terrible start to the Super League season.
The 58-year-old former Panionios and Olympiakos Piraeus coach has signed a one-year deal with AEK for a...
Culture
In Crisis, Greek Football Teams Prefer Greek Players
ATHENS – The Greek economic crisis and days of austerity are making even its Super League soccer teams cutting back, preferring to sign homegrown players instead of dealing out big bucks to foreign players who have failed to help...
events
AEK Veteran Stelios Vaskos Travels Back and Forth to Munich on a Bike for Children's Foundation
Stelios Vaskos tries to do the unbelievable: Trikala - Munich - Trikala, seven countries, dozens of cities, 4,000 kilometers on the bike for the cause, The Smile of the Child.
Stelios Vaskos, the veteran cyclist of AEK Athens team and...
Greece
Players Boycott Christmas Party
Santa Claus will not be visiting AEK Athens on Monday evening after the Greek club's players voted overwhelmingly to cancel their planned Christmas party.
At Monday's training session, the players decided not to attend the event in protest at the...