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UEFA Europa League: Results and Interesting Stories
One win, a draw and a loss is how the three Greek teams fared in Europa League's first round games. PAOK Thessaloniki snatched a 6-1 win against Dinamo Minsk at home, Asteras Tripolis grabbed a point with an 88th...
Greece
UEFA Champions League: Olympiacos – Atletico Madrid 3-2
Olympiacos grabbed its first three points in the UEFA Champions league after smashing Spanish Champions Atletico Madrid 3-2 in Group A's opening fixture in the Giorgios Karaiskakis in Piraeus.
In what can only be described as a majestic night for...
Greece
Four World Cup Greeks Still in Search of a Team
Four Greek players who have participated in World Cups (2010 or 2014) have just one day left to decide the next stop in their career. The official deadline for free agent transfers (players whose contracts have expired and don't belong to...
Greece
The "Greek" Salaries of the Italian League Campionato
The no1 selling sports newspaper in Italy "Gazzetta dello Sport" displayed the salaries of all players featured in the Italian Serie A this coming year.
For the first time in history, there are nine Greek players present in Italy's first...
Basketball
2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup: Serbia Defeats Greece 90-72
Serbia demolished Greece in the second half, knocking them out of the 2014 Mundobasket quarter finals and the chance to win a medal for the first time since 2006 and the FIBA World Cup in Japan.
Greece who was undefeated...
Basketball
Greek Basketball Giants Fight Back for Euroleague Survival
Both Greek teams in the last eight of basketball's Euroleague managed to edge do-or-die victories in closely contested play-offs Monday night, kindling fading dreams of keeping the trophy in Greece for a fourth consecutive year by pulling their respective series back to 2-1 down with...
Greece
Olympiakos Celebrate Title But Seal Apollon Relegation
While Olympiakos lifted its 41st championship title, secured last month with games to spare, in front of a home crowd at the Karaiskakis Stadium Sunday, their 1-0 victory in the last fixture of the season also doomed their opponents, Apollon Smyrnis, to relegation...
Greece
AP: Greece Still on Football Map Despite Crisis
As the Fifa World Cup 2014 in Brazil closes in, US news agency Associated Press reports Greece’s national football team as “a rare success story in a country struck by financial crisis that battered everything from public health to achievement in most...
Greece
Major Greek Football Club Aris Relegated to Second Division
Just a day after celebrating its 100th anniversary, Aris, one of Greece's best-known football clubs, has been relegated to the second division for only the third time in its history. Ergotelis F.C delivered the final blow, sealing Aris' fate with a painful 0-2 victory...
Greece
Greek Female Boxer to Make History
The Greek female Super- Featherweight boxer Areti Mastrodouka, is about to make history on Saturday, March 29 2014, as she participates in the first ever bout to be held in Greece. Areti Mastrodouka runs a 6-0 unbeatable record. The...