Articles tagged with "olympiacos"
Injuries plague Greek Cup Derby
By Peter Katsiris | February 4th, 2009The two top sides in the Greek Super League meet tonight at the Toumba Stadium in Thessaloniki, but the highly-anticipated Greek Cup derby between PAOK ...
Galletti strikes, Nikopolidis backstops Olympiacos to derby win
By Peter Katsiris | February 2nd, 2009It was a night featuring the glory of derby delight for Olympiacos as a solitary strike from Luciano Galleti gave the Greek Champions a 1-0 ...
Champions seek revenge against AEK in Athens
By Peter Katsiris | February 1st, 2009Olympiacos might be on its way to a fifth consecutive title, but a visit to the OAKA Spyros Louis Stadium on Sunday still has relevance ...
Marca reports Atletico interest in Olympiacos bench boss
By Peter Katsiris | January 30th, 2009According to Spanish sports newspaper Marca, Atletico Madrid is interested in the services of Olympiacos manager Ernesto Valverde. While the capital club currently employs Mexican ...
Derbyshire set for Olympiacos Odyssey
By Peter Katsiris | January 30th, 2009Matt Derbyshire was unveiled as the newest member of Olympiacos on Thursday, as the U-21 England international swapped Blackburn Rovers for the Greek Champions on ...
Derbyshire arrives in Athens, excited about Olympiacos move
By Peter Katsiris | January 29th, 2009Matt Derbyshire arrived at the Eleftheros Venizelos Airport in Athens during the early hours of Thursday morning, and like a usual reception for Greek transfers, ...
Olympiacos sends Sisic and Matsoukas packing
By Peter Katsiris | January 29th, 2009Olympiacos terminated the contract of two players on Wednesday, as Mirnes Sisic and Lefteris Matsoukas were released by the club after disappointing spells. Sisic, who joined ...
Derbyshire deal all but signed, says Olympiacos spokesman
By Peter Katsiris | January 29th, 2009The eleventh hour in the winter transfer window has finally produced an import for Olympiacos, as the Greek Champions are set to sign Matt Derbyshire ...
Greek Wrap (...not a Gyro) Round 19: Olympiacos extends its lead at the summit
By Peter Katsiris | January 27th, 2009Something of a revamped feature here at the Greece Blog at theoffside.com is this feature Greek Super League weekend wrap (...and yes it isn't edible ...
Derbies in store after Greek Cup Draw
By Peter Katsiris | January 26th, 2009The Hellenic Football Federation (EPO) completed the draw for the quarterfinals and the semi-finals today. With several high-rollers still alive in the Greek Cup, this ...
Galletti chips Olympiacos past OFI
By Peter Katsiris | January 24th, 2009Olympiacos needed the lethal touch of Luciano Galletti in order to collect maximum points against OFI Crete on Saturday at the Giorgos Karaiskakis Stadium in ...
Olympiacos hosts OFI in the second half of a double date
By Peter Katsiris | January 24th, 2009After booking a spot in the quarterfinals of the Greek Cup with a 2-0 win over OFI on Wednesday, Olympiacos returns home to the Giorgos ...
Leto nears contract extension with Olympiacos
By Peter Katsiris | January 23rd, 2009According to reports from Greece, Olympiacos and Sebastian Leto are close to agreeing to a one-year contract extension which would see the Argentine remain a ...
Farias transfer rumors continue to flicker for Olympiacos
By Peter Katsiris | January 23rd, 2009Though the need is rather demanding, there hasn't been much speculation as to who Olympiacos will import in place of retired striker Darko Kovacevic. The ...
Piraeus, Vienna mourn the loss of a three-time Greek Champion
By Peter Katsiris | January 22nd, 2009A former Greek League Champion with Olympiacos, Piraeus joins Austria to mourn the loss of Peter Persidis who died in Vienna on Wednesday at the ...
A touch of ‘Tango’ sees Olympiacos through
By Peter Katsiris | January 22nd, 2009On a windy night in Crete, a touch of tango helped Olympiacos book a spot in the quarterfinals of the Greek Cup with a 2-0 ...
Olympiacos aims for Cup success in Crete
By Peter Katsiris | January 21st, 2009Olympiacos will be aiming for the quarterfinals of the Greek Cup tonight (20:00 GR, ALPHA), as the Greek Champion travel to Crete to face OFI ...
Surgery for Nihat silences Olympiacos link
By Peter Katsiris | January 20th, 2009It wasn't the most vibrant headline regarding Olympiacos' first acquisition of the winter transfer window, but the ongoing rumor pointing Villarreal's Nihat Kahveci with a ...
Olympiacos emerges from the Lion’s Den unscathed
By Peter Katsiris | January 18th, 2009Olympiacos extended its lead atop the Super League standings to twelve points over rivals PAOK and Panathinaikos for the time being, as Vasilis Torosidis gave ...
Two Worlds set to collide in Serres
By Peter Katsiris | January 17th, 2009The Greek Super League is known for mismatches, and Saturday's matinee match featuring table-toppers Olympiacos and cellar-dwellers Panserraikos is expected to be another round of ...
Nikopolidis: If you want, I will stay
By Peter Katsiris | January 16th, 2009He couldn't have laid it out any more clearly. Antonis Nikopolidis joined Kostas Karapappas and Giorgos Noikokiris at the Sentra 101.3 FM studio on Thursday, ...
Torosidis set for ‘Erythrolefki’ extension
By Peter Katsiris | January 16th, 2009All rumors regarding Vasilis Torosidis' football future are slowly being put to rest as reports from Greece reveal the Greece international is on the verge ...
The hunt for a striker heats up for Olympiacos
By Peter Katsiris | January 14th, 2009With Darko Kovacevic likely to be unavailable and unable to continue his football career anytime soon - and possibly soon to retire - and Konstantinos ...
Gekas: I have no offer from Olympiacos
By Peter Katsiris | January 13th, 2009Bayer Leverkusen's Theofanis Gekas revealed plenty of interesting tidbits regarding his current employers, and a potential move away from the BayArena , in an interview ...
Lyon link continues to linger for Torosidis
By Peter Katsiris | January 13th, 2009French Champions and Champions League competitors, Olympique Lyonnais, are once again part of speculation regarding the future of Olympiacos defender Vasilis Torosidis. Previously part of ...
Kovacevic undergoes successful operation
By Peter Katsiris | January 13th, 2009Darko Kovacevic underwent a successful operation, which consisted of a coronary angioplasty, today in San Sebastian. Though the operation was ‘100 percent' successful, Kovacevic will ...
Kovacevic’s football career lies in the balance, as Darko travels to Barcelona
By Peter Katsiris | January 12th, 2009Dark Age. That was the headline glaring at Olympiacos supporters on Greek site sport24.gr over the weekend. It was the header of an article involving ...
Super League Transfers as of January 12th, 2009
By Peter Katsiris | January 12th, 2009It’s another edition of the winter transfer window, and with the Greek Super League all about jostling for position these days, many of the clubs ...
Early goal rush paves the way for Olympiacos
By Peter Katsiris | January 12th, 2009It was closer than expected as Skoda Xanthi kept Olympiacos in check in a 2-1 win for the latter at the Giorgos Karaiskakis Stadium. The ...
Olympiacos awaits freefalling Xanthi in Piraeus
By Peter Katsiris | January 10th, 2009Just a few weeks ago Skoda Xanthi was battling PAOK for second spot in the Greek Super League, now the Thracian side finds itself in ...
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