Articles tagged with "greece"
Injury bug hits Piraeus
By Peter Katsiris | September 2nd, 2008The season is only a few days young, but that hasn't stopped nagging injuries to bite some of Olympiacos core players. Predrag Djordjevic is among ...
Olympiacos ends slump with win over Asteras
By Peter Katsiris | September 2nd, 2008Olympiacos ended its recent slump and their supporter's misery -- due to an early exit from the Champions League -- with a 3-goal performance in ...
Cyprus 2 - Greece 0
By chris | August 29th, 2008According to UEFA, the Greek Super League is more than twice as good as the Cypriot First Division (coefficient ranking of 25.8 to 10.1). Doesn't ...
Champions League to continue without Greek Champions
By Peter Katsiris | August 27th, 2008I can't believe it, but it is a reality:Olympiacos is officially out of the UEFA Champions League for this season. It's something I wouldn't expect ...
Greek Champions face early Champions League KO
By Peter Katsiris | August 27th, 2008I can't believe I am saying this so early in the season, but Olympiacos could be set for a UEFA Cup run? Olympiacos faces an early ...
Have no fear, Diogo is (finally) here!
By Peter Katsiris | August 22nd, 2008It's all over; the most anticipated transfer of the summer -- at least from a Gavroi perspective -- has finally been completed. Diogo was officially ...
Friendly Fire: Olympiacos 4-0 Al-Hilal
By Peter Katsiris | August 21st, 2008Giving their best performance of the summer thus far, Olympiacos thrashed Saudi Arabian club, Al-Hilal, at the Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium. Goals from Luciano Galletti, Fernando ...
Diogo Santo arrives in Greece?
By Peter Katsiris | August 19th, 2008It appears, all be it after a bizarre twist of events, Diogo Santo has finally arrived in Greece and is ready to begin his duty ...
International Call-ups ahead of Al-Hilal friendly
By Peter Katsiris | August 19th, 2008Olympiacos is set to continue its off-season preparations tonight in Piraeus. The opposition, Saud Arabian Champions Al-Hilal, will visit the Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium for an ...
Miserable night for Olympiacos in Cyprus
By Peter Katsiris | August 13th, 2008Olympiacos faces a major setback in their bid to reach the UEFA Champions League group stage, after falling 3-0 to Cypriot club Anorthosis Famagusta. In ...
Olympiacos - Anorthosis lineups
By Peter Katsiris | August 13th, 2008The game is just minutes away now and both side have released their lineups. Olympiacos will be lining up in its traditional 4-5-1 with Antonis ...
Olympiacos set for Anorthosis rematch
By Peter Katsiris | August 12th, 2008We are now less than 24 hours away from Olympiacos' season debut in Europe for the 2008/2009 season, with a good result in Cyprus being ...
Ledesma on his way out of Piraeus?
By Peter Katsiris | August 7th, 2008Time could be up on Cristian Raúl Ledesma's stay with Olympiacos, as the Argentine has been left off Olympiacos 22-man roster for the UEFA Champions ...
Olympiacos lose, but impress against Racing
By Peter Katsiris | August 6th, 2008Olympiacos fell 3-2 to Spanish side Racing Santander tonight, but the loss was little disappointment to the thousands of fans who packed the Georgios Karaiskaki ...
We have some Competition
By Peter Katsiris | August 5th, 2008After months of being the lone one blogging about a Greek club here at theoffside.com, I am ecstatic about the new additions to the Greek ...
No Lights, No Camera, but Plenty of Action
By Peter Katsiris | August 5th, 2008With a squad filled with several reserves, Olympiacos gave quite the performance in a 3-1 friendly win over Greek B' Division club Atromitos. Goals from ...
Olympiacos in deep (with) Dudu
By Peter Katsiris | August 4th, 2008Both CSKA Moscow and Olympiacos have confirmed that Brazilian play maker Dudu Cearense will make the move from Russia to Greece in the coming days. ...
Leto arrives in Athens
By Peter Katsiris | August 4th, 2008One of Olympiacos' new summer arrivals arrived in Athens late Monday night, after agreeing to join the Greek Champions on a one year loan from ...
Spontaneous flurry of transfers
By Peter Katsiris | August 4th, 2008*** Notice name change? It is still me, Takis, I just changed my display name to my actual name -- Peter Katsiris -- for future ...
Daily Dose 08.03.08
By Daryl | August 3rd, 2008Something to read while you stay in the world's smallest hotel... Pachuca keeper photographed in compromising position (The Footie) Jack Wilshere impressing in pre-season (Goonerboy) 65 players looking ...
Geia Sas! It's great to be here...
By Chris Paraskevas | August 1st, 2008Geia sas, My name is Chris Paraskevas, an 18 year-old aspiring journo living in Sydney, Australia. I am privileged to have been given the opportunity to ...
Champions League Draw: Déjà vu for Olympiacos
By Takis | August 1st, 2008UEFA officials conducted the 3rd Qualifying Round draw earlier today in Nyon, France; the result turned out to be a familiar one. Having to qualify ...
Darko delivers in win over Getafe
By Takis | July 31st, 2008It was the theme in Piraeus throughout last year, and Darko Kovacevic made sure it continued tonight as the Serbian scored the lone goal in ...
Champions League 3rd Round Draw Tomorrow
By Takis | July 31st, 2008The fate of our European season will take step into clarity tomorrow morning (6am Eastern) when UEFA conducts the draw for the 3rd Qualifying Round ...
Olympiacos looking to swoop for Basinas
By Takis | July 28th, 2008This is no joke. Olympiacos is very much interested in RCD Mallorca's Angelos Basinas, and are prepared to offer the Greek international a two year ...
Sebastián Leto in on loan
By Peter Katsiris | July 28th, 2008Liverpool FC has let Argentinian left winger Sebastián Leto join Olympiacos on a loan deal. The 21-year old is highly regarded by Reds manager Rafa ...
Bernardo Corradi released
By j | July 28th, 2008It was only time and as noted on numerous occasions the Eastland's house-cleaning at Striker continues with the out-of-favour Bernardo Corradi released from his final ...
Win and Loss in Holland
By Peter Katsiris | July 27th, 2008Olympiacos wrapped up its friendly tour of Holland with a win and a loss in its final two games. It was the second of three ...
Home kits left in the dark...
By Takis | July 21st, 2008Olympiacos officials were supposed to hold a press conference yesterday afternoon, according to an announcement made earlier in the week. To the surprise of Olympiacos ...
Olympiacos held up in Holland
By Takis | July 19th, 2008Olympiacos kicked off the second stage of its training session in Netherlands earlier this week but their first test came today in Eerste Divisie club, ...
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