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 Greece national football team - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Greece national football team is the national football team of Greece and is controlled by the Hellenic Football Federation.
The triumph of the national team at Euro 2004 is the biggest sporting achievement in the country's history.
Greece were the highest ranked seed in the 'pots' for qualification to 2008 European Football Championship in Switzerland and Austria.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Greece_national_football_team   (374 words)

  
 Angelos Charisteas
Angelos Charisteas (&;) (born February 9, 1980 in Serres, Greece) is a striker on the Greece national football team.
Greece national team coach Otto Rehhagel publicly urged Charisteas to try to move to another club during the January 2005 transfer window in order to get first-team action.
At the 2004 European Football Championship, he scored the lone goal in a 1-0 victory over France to lead his team to the semifinals.
www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/NewSport/AngelosCharisteas.html   (231 words)

  
 ATL World Soccer News - Euro 2004 soccer news daily.
Greece's (R) and Portugal's team hear to their national anthems before the beginning of the Euro 2004 group A first football match between Portugal and Greece, 12 June 2004 at Dragao stadium in Porto, at the European Nations championship in Portugal.
Greece's national football team players pose, 01 July 2004 at Dragao stadium in Porto, before the beginning of the Euro 2004 semi-final football match between Greece and Czech Republic at the European Nations championship in Portugal.
Portugal's national football team pose, 30 June 2004 at the Alvalade stadium in Lisbon, prior to the Euro 2004 semi final match between Portugal and The Netherlands at the European Nations championship in Portugal.
www.wldcup.com /euro/2004/direct/jul03/20040703_gallery.html   (1097 words)

  
 England national football team - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
England ensured qualification after a tense final game against Greece; David Beckham scored from a free kick in the last seconds of the game to make the score 2-2 and put England top of their group on goal difference.
England would only play the other Home Nations (Scotland, Wales and what was then Ireland) for nearly 40 years - partly due to the dominance of the UK in international football, as well as the problems of arranging internationals in the days before air travel was commonplace.
For the first 50 years of its existence, the England team played its home matches at different venues all around the country; for the first few years it used cricket grounds, before later moving on to football clubs' stadiums.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/English_national_football_team   (2953 words)

  
 Greece Interstate 8 Definition / Greece Interstate 8 Research
Greece Interstate 8 is an old highway linking the cities of Patras Patra (Greek: Modern: &;, Ancient: Πάτραι, Pátrai) is the third largest city of Greece, and additionally the capital of the Achaea region of Greece.
The highway passes on the northern part of the Saronic GulfThe Saronic Gulf or Gulf of Aegina in Greece forms part of the Aegean Sea and defines the eastern side of the isthmus of Corinth.
It is bounded in the east by the Isthmus of Corinth which includes the shipping route of the Corinth Canal, and in the west by the Strait of Rion, which separates the Gulf of Corinth from the outer Gulf of Patras at Cape Drepano, where the narrowest point is crossed by the Rion-Antirio bridge.
www.elresearch.com /Greece_Interstate_8   (514 words)

  
 Hellenic Sport, Greek Athletes 2/4
Theodoros Zagorakis (Θοδωρ&; Ζαγοράκης)(27.10.1971 Kavala/Greece) captain of the Greece national football team that won the 2004 European Football Championship.
The Greek national football team was a winner against the former World Champion France, against the Czech Republic with their good players and also Portugal with his superstars in their own land.
This dream was like a soap bubble that ended after the National team lost recently a game with Albania.
www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/NewSport/Sport2.htm   (664 words)

  
 History
Football, however, was mostly developed in England.  From the 8th to the 19th century it had a local character and the rules varied from place to place.
The governing body of the sport in Greece is the Hellenic Football Federation, which was founded in 1926 and is a member of FIFA.
The Greek National Team has participated in the 1920 Games in Antwerp and the 1952 Games in Helsinki.
www.athens2004.com /en/FootballHistory   (748 words)

  
 ATL World Cup Soccer. All the top world soccer news daily. News from international soccer. Euro 2004, champion's league, premiership football, bundesliga, serie a, j-league.
Greece's national football team will receive a one-million euro bonus for reaching the European championships' quarter-finals, the Greek government said.
Greece, the tournament's surprise package, qualified for the quarter-finals of a major international championship's for the first time in their history after beating hosts Portugal 2-1 and a 1-1 draw with Spain.
Football-crazed Greece hosts the August 13-29 Athens Olympics.
www.wldcup.com /news/2004Jun/20040623_24984_world_soccer.html   (246 words)

  
 HELLENIC FOOTBALL FEDERATION
The Women National Team preparation -in view of the matches to be played during the Olympic Tournament- was concluded today, after the morning training session at OFI stadium.
Greece team are going to face the USA tomorrow, Wednesday, 11 August.
The National Coach, Xanthi Konstantinidou, is going to have at her disposal for the opening game all the players.
www.epo.gr /detail_uk.asp?e_article_id=3570&e_article_cat_id=15   (109 words)

  
 Greeksoccer.com
The European champions Greece were among four teams to claim victories on the opening day of the Cyprus Football Association tournament.
Greece edged out Belarus in Limassol with a goal from international debutant Georgios Samaras.
Greece were busy in the first half as Dimitrios Salpingidis sent a header just wide eight minutes after the goal, before Panagiotis Fyssas raced through to shoot wide seconds later...
www.greeksoccer.com   (294 words)

  
 Belgium national football team - Gurupedia
The Belgium national football team's best World Cup performance came in 1986, when they beat Spain to reach the Semi-finals, losing 2-1 to Argentina.
Belgium has the longest current streak of qualifying for World Cups via the qualifying tournament, with six, tying Italy for the all-time record.
Every other nation with an equal or longer string of appearances has had the aid of automatic qualification as the host or the defending champion.
www.gurupedia.com /b/be/belgium_national_football_team.htm   (121 words)

  
 Greece unveils 1st women's soccer squad - Soccer - MSNBC.com
Getting the women's team together was not easy, even if Greece got in as host country allowing its female squad to take part in the Aug. 13-29 games without qualifying.
Soccer in Greece is a man's sport," Xanthi Konstandinidou, the team's coach, said.
Benson, whose mother is Greek, took a break from her biochemistry studies at Yale University to be on the team.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/5439444   (711 words)

  
 news.ert.gr - Football - Greek National Team Groups Up
As Otto Rehhagel had stated, the aim is to acquire four points in order for Greece to hope for the first place of the group that will lead it straight in Germany, and to increase its hopes for the second place that will lead the team to the decisive matches.
Today, the countdown for the games against Turkey (June 4, Istanbul) and Ukraine (June 8, Karaiskakis Stadium) has begun for the European Champions that gathered today in the hotel before the start of the Greek national team’s games.
The common conclusion is that Greece for another year will achieve the results it wants in order to make a strong presence in the stadiums of Germany and the finals of the World Cup.
news.ert.gr /en/newsDetails.asp?id=8341   (853 words)

  
 Football Arise, and Fall over
But no, he's been honoured for his contribution to English football, namely guiding Liverpool to the spawniest treble in football history two years ago, the very same treble he's been dining out on ever since.
Former national treasure Paul "Gazza" Gascoigne has arguably reached rock bottom, with rumours that he may soon join Stockport County from Chinese collective Gansu Tianma.
We also called for your stories of professional footballers and retrieval of balls from back gardens.
football.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4689850-3137,00.html   (1137 words)

  
 Adidas Resources & Information - adidas socks
He is also the president of the Olympique de Marseille football team, to which Tapie is closely linked.
de Marseille adidas football team, to which Tapie is closely linked.
He was the object of several lawsuits, notably related to match fixing at the football club.
www.bizhisto.com /adidas.htm   (1919 words)

  
 THE GREEK NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM READY TO FACE ALBANIA
The Greek national football team is more than ready for the football game with Albania in Athens this evening, within the framework of the qualifying round for the World Cup 2006, after the great victory in Georgia.
The Greek government spokesman condemned the incidents in yesterday's game between the under twenty-one teams of Greece and Albania in Athens during which young football fans tore apart an Albanian flag threatening to interrupt the game which finally ended 2-0 in favor of the Greek team.
The Greek Football Federation, EPO, apologized calling on the football fans not to tolerate actions that defame and hurt the Greek football.
www.mpa.gr /article.html?doc_id=519523   (221 words)

  
 France Football European National Team of the Year Award Rankings
Only West Germany/Germany have won more team of the year awards than England and only Spain have won as many.
France Football European National Team of the Year Award Rankings
This prestigious award is made by the French football magazine France Football and is based on a survey of European football journalists.
www.englandfootballonline.com /TeamRank/RankFrFt.html   (409 words)

  
 The Ultimate User:Sjorford/Football - American History Information Guide and Reference
Ukraine - Football Federation of Ukraine - Ukraine national football team - FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk - FC Dynamo Kyiv - FC Illichivets Mariupil - FC Metalurg Donetsk - FC Shakhtar Donetsk
Belarus - Football Federation of Belarus - Belarus national football team - FC BATE Borisov - FC Dinamo Minsk - FC Gomel - FC Shakhtyor Soligorsk
Football Association of Ireland - Republic of Ireland national football team - FAI Cup - FAI League Cup - The Saipan Incident
www.historymania.com /american_history/User:Sjorford/Football   (3597 words)

  
 HELLENIC FOOTBALL FEDERATION
Sofoklis Pilavios, chairman of the HFF International Relations Committee, is to attend a UEFA Professional Football working group meeting, in which the role of agents in European football is to be examined...
FC Barcelona forward Ronaldinho has capped a memorable year by winning the Ballon d΄ Or, or European Footballer of the Year award, at the annual ceremony in Paris.
Mr Otto Rehhagel has called up 24 players in view of the matches against Belarus and Finland or Kazakhstan for the CFA 10th International Tournament that will be held on 28/02-01/03/2006.
www.epo.gr /default_uk.asp   (140 words)

  
 Euro 2004 Teams :: Group A :: Portugal Spain Greece Russia
Greece nearly denied England an automatic place at World Cup 2002 after they had the better of a 2-2 draw at Old Trafford with only David Beckham's last-minute free kick guaranteeing England's place in Korea/Japan.
The two Iberian teams should progress from the group; the Portuguese nation expects but don't count on further progress.
Greece have shown that result was no fluke with improving performances under German coach Otto Rehhagel.
www.soccerphile.com /soccerphile/port2004/euro-2004-teams/group-a.html   (919 words)

  
 Czech football team gearing up for Euro 2004 semi-final clash with Greece - 30-06-2004 - Radio Prague
On Thursday millions of Czechs will be watching their national football team take on Greece in the semi-finals at the European Football Championships.
Losing him would be the biggest blow to the Czech team: he is by far the best Czech player of his generation and the motor of the current team.
For instance, many of the Czech team which reached the final of Euro 96 were bought by foreign clubs soon afterwards.
www.radio.cz /en/article/55544   (859 words)

  
 The Greek National Men’s Football Team volunteers for the 2004 Olympic Games
Greek football internationals visited the ATHENS 2004 headquarters to sign their volunteer applications for the 2004 Olympic Games, shortly before departing for Portugal, where they will be playing a friendly match with the team of the EURO 2004 host country.
The captain of the Greek national team, Theodoros Zagorakis, said that the football players’ decision to sign up as Volunteers expressed their wish to do their bit for the Olympic effort now under way.
Angelopoulos-Daskalaki two team shirts and a ball with the signatures of all the players in the national team.
www.phantis.com /news?newsID=20031114102801   (748 words)

  
 BBC SPORT Football Euro 2004 England Why does it always end like this?
England, it seems, are never to be eliminated by a scoreline that at least allows their supporters the cold comfort of being able to say their team was simply second best.
The emotional well-being of England fans might be better served if they simply forgot all about football and took up tiddlywinks instead.
And as a nation woke up on Friday nursing sore heads, England fans once again had to reconcile themselves with another glorious failure.
news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/football/euro_2004/england/3840067.stm   (608 words)

  
 Maradona back to Argentina’s national team Unofficial European Football - Unofficial European Football News and Views
Now, he will also be part of the national team with a role that is yet to be defined, after an agreement with the Argentine FA president, Julio Grondona.
Yesterday, Maradona, FA president Julio Grondona and national team trainer José Pekerman held a meeting in which they reached an agreement on Maradona’s incorporation to the national team staff.
Re: News: Maradona back to Argentina’s national team
www.sportnetwork.net /main/s342/st84806.htm   (1181 words)

  
 Tony Azevedo Leads U.S. Senior National Team in Greece :: The U.S. faces Hungary this weekend.
Lausanne, Greece - Three members of the 2002 Stanford men's water polo team are currently playing for the U.S. Men's Senior National Team at the 2002 Fina Water Polo World League in Greece.
Azevedo is the scoring leader for all eight teams with 22 goals in his eight matches.
Sophomore Tony Azevedo and seniors Peter Hudnut and Jeff Nesmith are all part of the team that has advanced through the fifth round of competition.
gostanford.collegesports.com /sports/m-wpolo/spec-rel/071902aaa.html   (241 words)

  
 European National Team Football Shirts
Northern Ireland National Team - Football Shirt and Homepage
England National Team - Football Shirt and Homepage
France National Team - Football Shirt and Homepage
www.footballshirt.info /europe.htm   (209 words)

  
 England National Football Team Unofficial Blog
WE ARE ENGLAND- England National Football Team
Gerrard won't be fit by wednesday to face the Polish team, but is hoping to be fit in time for the Liverpool V Fulham game in 12 days time.
However, with the top team in the group being paired with the runner-up in another group, Taylor has his sights on first place.
www.gamblog.co.uk /2005_10_01_england_archive.htm   (4891 words)

  
 BBC SPORT Football African Egypt name caretaker coach
Shehata will look after the national team and keep his job as coach of second division side Arab Contractors until the Egyptian Football Association's (EFA) elections in December.
Tardelli was fired after Egypt's 2-1 defeat away to Libya in the 2006 World Cup qualifiers that dealt a blow to the team's hopes of reaching the finals in Germany.
"He will prepare the team for the upcoming commitments in the World Cup qualifiers," EFA spokesman Medhat Shalaby said.
news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/football/africa/3964495.stm   (243 words)

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