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Video: AEK Athens youngster Giorgos Katidis banned from playing for Greece after Nazi salute

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Ο χαιρετισμός του Γιώργου Κατίδη! by kokoretsi AEK Athens midfielder Giorgos Katidis has been banned for life from the Greece national team after celebrating a goal with a Nazi salute. The 20-year-old ex-Greece under-19 team skipper marked his winning goal against Veria with a straight-armed gesture.

Video: Amazing quadruple off the woodwork shot from Greece

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Tetraplo dokari by martelis Off The Post? Yep, and the rest. This footage comes from the Greek lower leagues. An Egeas Plomariou player thought he was about to find the net against Papanikolis. His shot beat the keeper but hit the post. Then the crossbar. Then the other post. Then the first post again.

Europe

Four Kisses From The Woodwork

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The pitch is suspect, but the woodwork is some of the finest you'll ever see.

The league is clearly way down the ladder, the team one named Egeas Plomariou, and the goalkeeper can only be described as hapless. But the posts are clearly on some mystical level, emitting a force which attracts the ball, keeping it from the net.

Tomas De Vincenti Becomes Zlatan

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Who is Tomas De Vincenti and why aren't broadcasting companies shelling out big euros to watch his every move. Why.

This is not, despite what you may think, Zlatan, who currently holds a monopoly on the football-martial arts hybrid. Tomas is 23 and plays for PAS Giannina, fresh from the Greek second division, though likely not for long: one moment like this will easily net a decent transfer.

Referees On Impromptu Club Trials

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Greek football always seem to be in trouble for somethin' these days. This would be a lot of trouble for Anastasios Kakos were the ball to have landed in the back of the net, though with his career as a referee surely over, he could probably triple his wages by sitting in the hole spraying balls around the pitch for a European-caliber domestic side.

Alan Pardew Hoping For Successful End To Good Week

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Newcastle manager has said today that he will use the full Newcastle squad this season as he takes Newcastle back into Europe and with the 1-1 draw against Atromitos on Thursday night in Greece, we must have a very good chance of qualifying for the group stages of the Europa League which will give us six European games to play before the end of the [.

England

Because normal goals are too mainstream ...

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Clint Dempsey created an own goal and laid in an assist for Emmanuel Adebayor in Tottenham's 3-1 win over Panathinaikos at White Hart Lane. The win sends Spurs through to the final-32 knockouts. Dempsey's helper allowed Adebayor to open the scoring in the 29th minute. And in heading a 76th-minute inswinging free kick from Kyle Walker off the crossbar, off the ground into the back of keeper

Beckham heading to Olympics in non-playing role, but backs off lighting flame

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Flame out: Beckham already accompanied the Olympic flame from Greece to England, but said he won't carry it at the opening ceremony (AP Photo). No word on how much time he will miss for the Galaxy this time: LOS ANGELES (AP) -- David Beckham doesn't believe he is the right

Champions League

Arsenal to lose in Champions League quarter-finals again?

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Champions League? by GP

I want to point out that, although Arsenal have qualified for the Champions League again, there is something that continues to anger me.

The question I have for Mr Wenger is how many times have we really threatened to go all the way apart from 2006 and 2009?

Jack Will Keep Us Sane

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Getting closer now

Hello all. It's Friday and the final day of the transfer window. Ready for the euphoria or the disappointment? Before we get to that, plenty of other things to discussed. No where better to start than the Champions League as the draw was made yesterday.

We are in Group B together with Olympiacos, Montpellier and Shalke.

Arsenal get decent draw in Champion’s League

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Arsenal were placed in group B for this season's Champion's league. The team from pot two chosen for Arsenal's group was Schalke 04 from Gelsenkirchen in Germany. They finished third in the Bundesliga last season behind Borussie Dortmund and Bayern Munich. The team from pot three was Olymiacos from Piraeus in Greece.

Former Newcastle Star Confident We Can Progress In Europe

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Nikos Dabizas was a very good center-back who played for Newcastle for six seasons from 1998 through 2004, and during that time he made 130 appearances for the side, played in the Champions League and UEFA Cup under the incomparable Bobby Robson, and scored 11 goals and he was also capped 70 times for Greece.

One Team In Ireland

Trapattoni reveals Ireland squad for Greece friendly

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Ireland boss Giovanni Trapattoni had named his squad for the upcoming friendly international against Greece in Dublin later this month.

The Boys In Green take on the Euro 2012 quarter finalists on the 14th Novemeber


Robbie Keane has been left out of the squad, as has striker Shane Long, who is suffering from a hamstring strain.

Trapattoni continues with his premiership tour this weekend

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Ireland manager Giovanni Trapattoni will continue with his new premiership tour this weekend when he take's in the game between Stoke and Sunderland at the Britannia Stadium.



This follows on from his visit to Norwich last week to eye-up Wes Hoolahan & Anthony Pilkington in their impressive defeat of Arsenal at Carrow Road.

Euro 2012

LVA 1-2 GRE: Greece Rally Late Again

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Nikos Spyropoulos found himself opening the scoring account for Greece as his neatly placed volley curled inside of the post. Two years ago he scored a similar goal to level against Georgia in the opening qualifier heading to Euro 2012. Most Greek fans are probably wondering why Spyropoulos was not [read more]

Preview LVA-GRE: The Journey Begins

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Hello to all Greece fans. It's been a while since my last post covering Greece's incredible journey at Euro 2012. After a full two month summer break the Greek national team begins it's journey to Brazil. Fernando Santos has moved the team in a new direction with the introduction of [read more]

Spain

Back in the neighborhood

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The Under-19 Champions League, better known as the NextGen Series is back and bigger than ever. As you might recall Inter Milan left Brisbane Road with all the marbles. This year, Europe's best U19 club competition has expanded to 24 teams with six home-and-away round robin groups. The top two from each group move on and the next four highest point-scoring third place teams join them in the

Pellegrini Says The LFP Is Hindering Malaga

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Manuel Pellegrini has hit out at the Spanish League and suggested that Malaga's current fixture situation would not happen to Barcelona or Real Madrid.

The Costa del Sol side are currently preparing for Wednesday's Champions League Play-off round first leg tie at home to Panathinaikos.

Jesé Rodríguez: Most Valuable Puppy

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Kickettes! The Spanish U19 team just beat Greece in some final. This guy scored the winner and picked up the MVP award for his trouble. What else can we do but concur?

Keep your eye on… Suso. Since 2007, Spain have won the...

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Keep your eye on... Suso.

Since 2007, Spain have won the U-19 European Championship three times, clinching their third title this past weekend in a 1-0 win over Greece. While the squad was supplied with plenty of future stars, such as Deulofeu and Jesé, one player stood out: Suso.

Spain Wins More Silver Stuff

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Just stop it already.

All it took was one, that damn Fernando Torres goal way back in 2008, and now Spain can't stop winning. Everything. After Iniesta & Co. took home their third senior trophy on the trot, the u19 squad casually won the European title with a 1-0 victory over the poor Greeks, who had to know the ending before the chapter had even begun.

Euro U-19: Spain roll right along beating Greece, 1-0

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There is no stopping Spain is there? The U19 team repeat as champions as Spain wins their sixth U19 Euro title in 11 years. The only goal had a Barca - Real Madrid connection as Jese Rodriguez collected Gerard Deulofeu's pass and angled the ball past Sokratis Dioudis.

SPAIN WINS U-19 EUROPEAN TITLE

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SPAIN keeps up with its winning ways in European Football claiming the U-19 EUROPEAN TITLE after defeating GREECE 1 - 0 in the Final. Extraordinary year for Spanish Football at all levels, with the Female Spanish U-19 team nearly winning their U-19 Final yesterday against Sweden ( lost 0 - 1 extra-time) which would have put the cherry on the cake.

EURO U-19 SEMIS | SPAIN WINS FRANCE IN PENALTY SHOOT OUT

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Marvellous run of wins & achievements for SPANISH FOOTBALL National Teams in all levels. The U-21 Team are the current European Champions, SPAIN won 10 days back the European Nations Cup & this afternoon-night the SPANISH U-19 TEAM won FRANCE 3 ( 4 ) - 3 ( 2 ) in the European semi-final. Spain will meet Greece in the U-19 European Championship Final & attempt to pull off a special string of

UEFA U19 Championships on GolTV

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GolTV is advertising the UEFA U19 Championships which are in the Quarterfinal stages. The 2nd game of the group stage wrap today with Portugal vs Spain, being shown on a delayed basis this evening at 7:00 pm.

The final group games are being shown live on Monday July 9th with Spain vs Estonia at 10:00 am and France vs England at 12 noon.

Rapid Vienna

Fan’s Riot in Greece But No Arrests?

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Fan's of both PAOK and Rapid Vienna rioted last night with missiles thrown left, right and centre before both teams Europa League tie in Greece last night.

The game went ahead after a short delay with PAOK winning 2-1, there was also no reported injuries thankfully and even more amazingly there were no arrests.

PAOK and Rapid Vienna fans have flare fight before Europa League match

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Shortly before Thursday's Europa League match between PAOK and Rapid Vienna in Greece, the visiting Rapid fans came out of the stands and launched an attack on the home supporters that made the Toumbas Stadium resemble a warzone. The Rapid fans launched flares and fireworks into a stand filled with PAOK supporters like missiles and the PAOK fans who didn't flee the rain of fire retaliated with by launching flares and fireworks of their own back down at their aggressors.

Last-Gasp Goal From Boyd Secures Place for Rapid Vienna in Europa League Playoffs

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The Olympic Gold medal match wasn't the only drama for U.S. Soccer on Thursday ...
While the WNT was winning gold in London, Terrence Boyd and Rapid Vienna were on the continent and facing a 2-1 deficit heading into the second leg of third round qualifying for the Europa League. The game was level at 0-0 heading into the 90th minute, which would have meant elimination for Rapid Vienna.

Brazil

FIFA Men’s World Rankings – 8 August 2012

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Spain remain on the top spot, England moves up to third place, and Brazil drops down to 13th place in the latest FIFA Men's World Rankings. The team making the biggest jump in the top 30 are Ecuador who are up seven spots to number 20. The United States, who have usually been in the top 30, are at 36 and three points by Serbia.

Rivaldo shows he still has it with classy hat-trick

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In the last five years Rivaldo has embarked on something of a world tour, and his last four clubs were in Brazil, Greece, Uzbekistan and Angola. He joined Angolan club Kabuscorp earlier this year, but his advancing years (the man is now 40!) have meant that he only appears on an irregular basis, taking to [.

Richard Dunne considering Ireland international future

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Ireland international defender Richard Dunne has consulted Aston Villa manager Paul Lambert for advice about whether to retire from international football to focus on his club career.


Asked if he'd considered retirement, Dunne, who is entering the final year of his Villa contract, replied: "Yes, it has a few times.

FIFA Publish Latest World Rankings, England Now The Fourth-Best Team In The World

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By Alan Duffy

World beaters... apparently.

As the dust settles on what was a rather fine EURO 2012, FIFA have released their latest world rankings, rankings which see the all-conquering Spain stay top, followed by Germany (up one spot), Uruguay (down one spot) and er, England, who jump up two places.

The Rest

Tomer Hemed’s Fancypants Backheel Assist

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Who would've thought that in a match featuring Cristiano Ronaldo, the best backheel would come from someone at the bottom end of the La Liga table? Probably a lot of people. Because that's just how things work sometimes.

Nevertheless, in what seems like it was probably an excellent game 3-3 draw with a late, 93rd minute Portuguese equalizer by Fabio Coentrao the cannoned Greek goal was cannoned into the net by Eden Ben Basat after a fancypants backheel flick by Tomer Hemed.

Stop Motion: Derby of Eternal Enemies Using over 2000 photos...

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Stop Motion: Derby of Eternal Enemies

Using over 2000 photos from the Panathinaikos vs Olympiacos earlier this month, Tourette Design found a fresh way to revisit this Greek clasico. Condensing a match into 3 minute highlights is one thing, but choosing a select number of particular frames to show at a time is another.

Arsenal vs. Olympiacos: Players to Watch and Prediction

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Santi Cazorla of Arsenal (Photo by Richard Heathcote/Getty Images)

In a way, the 2012-13 season has meant rebuilding for both Arsenal and Greek champions Olympiacos. Still, both clubs will have a few players who, since August, haveproven to be capable of transforming any match in their club's favor.

Voukefala & Paleopyrgo: Greek Sponsorship Ingenuity At Its Finest

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In more imaginative and original news, the economic crisis in Greece is apparently so bad that footy club Voukefalas has resorted to placing a local brothel's ads on their kits (brothel's estimated net worth: 2.4 million USD).Speaking with NovaSport FM radio station, Voukefala president Giannis Batziolas joked that when the club's execs relayed the peculiar [.

Match Results – Panionios ( 2 – 1 ) OFI , Greece on The 17th of September, 2012

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Panionios ( 2 1 ) OFI , Greece on The 17th of September, 2012 at twenty five past eight Podcast:

Liverpool Face Hearts Test

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Liverpool will take on Scottish club Hearts for a place in the group stage of the Europa League this season.
The Reds got the better of FC Gomel in the last qualifying round and will have to get past the Edinburgh club in the two-legged play-off tie that is scheduled for later this month.
Newcastle United has been drawn against Atromitos of Greece, while Scottish side Motherwell will confront Spanish outfit Levante.

Match-Fixing 2010: He Said, She Said

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Alarming news coming out today: something involving FIFA might be corrupt. Tis true.

A former security official for FIFA has said that the game between Greece and Nigeria at the 2010 World Cup was, at least at one point, under investigation for match-fixing, which would be the first World Cup fixture ever.

Sporting Sign Neven Markovic

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Sporting KC made their first roster move of the summer transfer window today, announcing the signing Bosnian center back/left back, Neven Markovic. At the same time, the team announced that they were waiving supplemental draft pick Shawn Singh, who had signed earlier this season. Markovic comes to Kansas City from Greek club, Doxa Drama.