Articles tagged with "greece"
Pfft! Basketball is a Welcomed Distraction!
By Peter Katsiris | March 26th, 2009Theoffside.com readers, you might remember the attack on popularity of basketball by Daryl and Chris over on the main page, but this past week or ...
Greek math without an abacus (...but you might need a calculator)!
By Peter Katsiris | March 24th, 2009So, on Sunday night, through a combination of a win for Olympiacos and a draw for Panathinaikos, Olympiacos officially became the Champions of the Greek ...
Greek Wrap (...Not a Gyro) Round 27: Polished Silverware
By Peter Katsiris | March 24th, 2009The weekend's slate of games ended with Olympiacos collecting silverware in the Greek Super League for the fifth consecutive season, and the twelfth time in ...
Olympiacos claims Greek title with win in Nea Smyrni
By Peter Katsiris | March 22nd, 2009A 3-2 win over Panionios in Nea Smyrni, and a 1-1 draw for Panathinaikos in Tripoli, saw Olympiacos clinch their twelfth in thirteen years. It ...
Diogo double saves Olympiacos in Tripoli
By Peter Katsiris | March 20th, 2009A comeback brace from Brazilian striker Diogo saw Olympiacos and Asteras Tripolis play to a 2-2 score-line in Tripoli after the hosts had gone ahead ...
AEK win builds aggregate cushion over Panserraikos
By Peter Katsiris | March 19th, 2009AEK Athens cruised to a 3-1 win in the first leg of their Greek Cup tie with Panserraikos at the OAKA Spyros Louis Stadium on ...
Final Four chase Cup Prize
By Peter Katsiris | March 18th, 2009The Greek Cup has reached the semi-final round and tonight the remaining four clubs will compete in the introductory leg of their semi-final ties. Titleholders ...
Greek Wrap (...not a gyro) Round 26: Time’s a ticking
By Peter Katsiris | March 18th, 2009Another eight matches down in the Greek Super League and the standings have gone under yet another shuffling in several races for glory. The title ...
Five-star Olympiacos sinks Iraklis in Piraeus
By Peter Katsiris | March 16th, 2009Olympiacos ended a three-game winless run in the Greek Super League on Sunday with a five-star performance against Iraklis at the Giorgos Karaiskakis Stadium. The ...
Hey, PAOK! What's your beef?
By Peter Katsiris | March 12th, 2009Remember that? Well if you don't, that's basically PAOK's Sergio Conceicao and Antonis Nikopolidis getting involved in a tussle in the player tunnel at the ...
PAOK Players: What's your beef?
By Peter Katsiris | March 12th, 2009Remember that? Well if you don't, that's basically PAOK's Sergio Conceicao and Antonis Nikopolidis getting involved in a tussle in the player tunnel at the ...
Xronia Polla Olympiakara Mou!
By Peter Katsiris | March 10th, 2009On this day, March 10th, 1925, the tremendously successful sporting institution known as Olympiacos CFP was founded. Olympiacos fans might not have felt in a ...
Derby Night in Thessaloniki Tainted by Disappointment
By Peter Katsiris | March 9th, 2009There were plenty of expectations ahead of PAOK's derby date with Olympiacos on Sunday, but the arrival of the final whistle at the Toumba Stadium ...
I Survived Toumba!
By Chris Pavlakos | March 9th, 2009My friends, this is Toumba. The Journey The day started with a flight from Athens to Thessaloniki that took 45 minutes (fantastic) then onto the ...
Olympiacos set for PAOK repeat
By Peter Katsiris | March 8th, 2009After a 2-0 win for Olympiacos over PAOK on Wednesday, the pair will battle once again on Sunday as the top two sides in the ...
Greek Super League Preview – Round 25: Saturday Preview
By Peter Katsiris | March 7th, 2009Three games in the Greek Super League are the highlight for fans of Greece's top flight on Saturday. Six sides with a lot to play ...
Super League Trophy gets a Sleek New Look
By Peter Katsiris | March 7th, 2009It has had many makeovers in recent years, but the top prize in Greek football, the Greek Super League trophy, underwent another change this week ...
Greek Cup Review: Shock in Athens, derby drama in Piraeus
By Peter Katsiris | March 7th, 2009On the final night of the Greek Cup quarter-finals there was plenty of suspense in Athens, Piraeus and Tripolis as the field of clubs vying ...
...and so the journey begins
By Chris Pavlakos | March 6th, 2009Thank you Pete for the great introduction to what will be going on over the next few weeks. As Pete said, I will be ...
The Olympiacos Blog gets an ‘Inside Man’
By Peter Katsiris | March 5th, 2009I was once told it's not what you know, it's who you know. Well if that is true, then I am sure glad I know ...
Olympiacos drains PAOK pipe dream
By Peter Katsiris | March 5th, 2009In what was a suspenseful match between two long-time rivals, Olympiacos grabbed two goals to overcome PAOK on Wednesday and book a place in the ...
PAOK looks to halt Olympiacos’ Greek Cup rein
By Peter Katsiris | March 4th, 2009They are the defending Greek Cup Champions, but tonight, Olympiacos is on the verge of elimination. The port city continues its week of excitement as ...
Time to Serve
By Peter Katsiris | March 3rd, 2009While Greece still boasts automatic conscription for up to one year for men aged 18-45, Olympiacos players will be serving time of a different sort. ...
Let-o(ff)!
By Peter Katsiris | March 2nd, 2009When Ernesto Valverde released his roster for this past weekend's derby with Panathinaikos, the main headline was the absence of Sebastian Leto from that list. ...
Stalemate end to the 100th edition of the Eternal Derby
By Peter Katsiris | March 2nd, 2009Greece's biggest derby ended in a stalemate yet again as Olympiacos and Panathinaikos failed to find a way past either ‘keeper and a 0-0 score-line ...
Piraeus braces as Eternal Derby enters the limelight
By Peter Katsiris | March 1st, 2009The Giorgos Karaiskakis Stadium will be in the limelight once again on Sunday as Olympiacos welcomes archrivals Panathinaikos to Piraeus. In the season's second meeting ...
Greek Super League Preview – Round 24: Playoff Contention and Relegation Battles Overshadowed by the Eternal Derby
By Peter Katsiris | February 28th, 2009European competition got the better of Greece during midweek as Panathinaikos and Olympiacos shared mixed fortunes during their respective UEFA Champions League and UEFA Cup ...
No Offense!
By Peter Katsiris | February 27th, 2009Last night marked the end of Olympiacos campaign in Europe as Saint-Etienne emerged 5-2 winners on aggregate to reach the next round of the UEFA ...
Saint-Etienne purges Olympiacos’ UEFA Cup campaign
By Peter Katsiris | February 27th, 2009UEFA president Michel Platini watched from the stands as Saint-Etienne handed Olympiacos its walking orders from the final edition of the UEFA Cup on Thursday ...
Blanco breaks Thracian hearts as AEK moves on
By Peter Katsiris | February 26th, 2009Banking on a 2-1 aggregate lead to guide them to the semi-finals, Skoda Xanthi was left in utter disappointment when a header from Ismael Blanco ...
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