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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 [.
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
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
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 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.
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.
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.
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]
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
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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
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.
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?
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.
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.
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 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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 [.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 [.
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.
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 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.
