Greek Soccer
Crime
Nazi-Salute Soccer Player Banned Again
Professional soccer player Giorgos Katidis, who was banned for life from Greece's national team for giving a Nazio-like salute after scoring the winning goal for his team in a Greek league match, has also been given a five-match ban...
Greece
Panathinaikos Dumps Fabri For Blasting Players
Fabri Gonzalez has joined a growing list of coaches at the beleaguered once-dominant Greek soccer team Panathinaikos to get the boot, the third one this year to be sacked this season after disappointing results, and after he said some...
Greece
Bosnia Beats Greece 3-1
Edin Dzeko scored twice as Bosnia beat Greece 3-1 on Friday to move three points clear at the top of its World Cup qualifying group.
Bosnia tops Group G with 13 points from five matches, while Greece stays on 10...
Cyprus
Russian Tycoons With Billions in Cyprus
Until last week when Eurozone officials began demanding the Cypriot government confiscate up to 9.9 percent of bank deposits to secure a 10 billion euros ($13 billion) Cyprus was a favorite tax and money-laundering haven for foreigners, especially Russians,...
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
Nazi Salute Gets Soccer Player Katidis Life Ban from National Team
A soccer player for the Greek team AEK Athens, midfielder Giorgos Katidis, was banned for life from playing on all national teams by Greece's soccer federation EPO on March 17, a day after he gave a Nazi salute to...
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...
Basketball
Panathinaikos Wins Hoop Final After Riot
In yet another violent match between Greece’s perennial basketball rivals, Panathiniakos beat Olympiakos, 81-78 in the Greek Cup final on Feb. 10, playing before near-empty stands after riot police cleared the stadium because of clashes between fans and objects...
Crime
BBC Says Golden Dawn Attacked SYRIZA MP
A BBC documentary on Greece’s rising neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party aired a recording that claims its members were behind the beating of a Member of Parliament from the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) that could disprove the extremists...
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...