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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...

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...

In light of the last World Cup game between Greece and Costa Rica, played in 2014, we decided to focus on the “Greek side” of Costa Rica, and more specifically on three towns in the country which have Greek names. Grecia, which...

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...

Costa Rica stunned the football world by beating former champions Italy and Uruguay in the World Cup. Here are 5 things you need to know for this surprise World Cup team!

The International Society of Friends of Nikos Kazantzakis (DEFNK) is organizing events in South America and also in the Greek writer’s birthplace of Heraklion, Crete to welcome the new year. On January 7, the Spanish translation of Kazantzakis’ “Odyssey” will...

On Thursday, the authorities of San Jose in Costa Rica stated that three Costa Rican doctors and a Greek are considered suspects for trafficking kidneys to people abroad. Attorney General Carlos Jimenez revealed that the doctors who were working at...