Tag Archives: soccer

New evidence has emerged in the investigation into the murder of AEK F.C. fan Michalis Katsouris during clashes with Croatian football hooligans in Athens last August, police sources revealed on Monday. Citing the police sources, state-run news agency amna reported that the DNA of a 35-year-old Greek football supporter has …

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Two Scottish supporters of Hearts soccer club were sentenced on Monday to an eight-month jail term. The two Hearts supporters were arrested by Greek police after trying to enter the Toumba stadium in Thessaloniki with flares, where Hearts played against PAOK to qualify for the UEFA Europa League. The three-member …

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Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced that the associations of organized soccer clubs fans  will close and only one official association will remain open for each team and operate at each football club’s headquarters. The Greek PM made this announcement after a broad meeting  with the participation of UEFA President Aleksander …

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The foreign ministers of Greece and Croatia, George Gerapetritis and Gordan Grlić Radman, spoke on the phone on Sunday following the jailing on remand of dozens of Croatian football fans arrested for the violence in the Athens district of Nea Philadelphia. According to diplomatic sources on Monday, the Croatian minister …

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Soccer supporters’ clubs will be suspended for five months and sentences for fans’ violence will be increased thus without parole, Greece announced on Monday as part of a crackdown triggered by the murder of a 19-year-old man who was stabbed and beaten to death by soccer hooligans in the northern …

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A video showing the suspects fleeing the scene where a 19-year-old man was stabbed and killed was made public by a news website in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, where the heinus murder took place in the early morning hours of Tuesday. The video obtained by local news website thestival.gr and by …

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One more incident of soccer fans violence took place in Thessaloniki and this time the victim was a 14=year-old boy. The teenager escaped the attackers’ rage thanks to the intervention of employees at a hotel nearby. According to a lawsuit filed by the victim’s father, the boy was in the …

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A 19-year-old man was stabbed and killed and two others were injured in an attack by five individuals in the early morning hours of Tuesday in Thessaloniki. Police attributes the assault to rival soccer fan clubs, media report. A 19-year-old victim was stabbed in the inner upper thigh and he …

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Greek Police in Thessaloniki are investigating the suspected murder of a local soccer player who was found dead in his car at the marina of Nea Krini in the suburb of Kalamaria on Tuesday morning. Nikos Tsoumanis, 30, was found with three tire ups around his neck, ethnos newspaper reported. …

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Greece’s national football team lost to Finland 2-0 in Tampere Stadium on Monday night and coach Michael Skibbe finds himself just a step before seeking another job. Local media speak of “national humiliation,” blame the German coach for it and demand his replacement …yesterday. “Unfortunately we were not in the …

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Seventeen high school students were brought to the Prosecutors’ office in Thessaloniki on Thursday, a day after a school championship match in Triandria turned into a battle field. The arrested are aged 16-19 with ten of them to be minors. According to local media, a group of non-students stormed in …

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Greece could be expelled from international soccer competitions because of widespread violence, a FIFA representative said Wednesday during the visit of a FIFA delegation in Athens. Herbert Huebel said a series of incidents, culminating with a gun-toting club owner running onto the field to protest a disallowed goal, are “unacceptable.” …

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Police has arrested one man and identified a second one suspected to be involved in the brutal beating of a soccer fan during the Greece-Gibraltar game on Tuesday. Video footage from Georgios Karaiskakis stadium, which is the home grounds for Greek champions Olympiakos, shows a group of fans beating and …

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Hidden cameras and microphones with direct audio and video monitoring. Greece football federation ‘spied on players and staff for years using hidden cameras and listening devices’. A committee appointed by FIFA accused the Greek Football Federation EPO of monitoring employees, players and coaches in what it calls a heavy blow …

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Turkish fans booed the silent minute held for the victims of Paris attack on Tuesday evening. The incident occurred short before the friendly soccer match between Greece and Turkey kicked off in Basaksehir Stadium in Istanbul. Present were Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and his Greek counterpart Alexis Tsipras who …

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Player of AEK Football Club Giorgos Katidis raised his hand in Nazi salute inside the football stadium after scoring a goal. The moment he raised his hand in a very obvious Nazi salute, members of AEK technical team fell over him, most probably to hide the insident. Video: Ο χαιρετισμός …

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Hooliganism prevailed over soccer, and the so-called Derby between the “Eternal Enemies” Panathinaikos and Olympiakos was abandoned after fans set stadium seats on fire and hurled petrol bombs, plastic chairs and fire extinguishers at the pitch. The riot police fired tear gas as young fans without tickets tried to storm the OAKA …

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