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Dawn - Football World Cup 2006 The first football competition in the world was started in the same year - the FA Cup, which preceded the League Championship by 17 years. After the English Football Association, the next oldest are the Scottish FA (1873), the FA of Wales (1875) and the Irish FA (1880). The next countries to form football associations after the Netherlands and Denmark in 1889 were New Zealand (1891), Argentina (1893), Chile (1895), Switzerland, Belgium (1895), Italy (1898), Germany, Uruguay (both in 1900), Hungary (1901) and Finland (1907). www.dawn.com /events/wc/history.htm   (1968 words)

FOOTBALL - LoveToKnow Article on FOOTBALL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) Among Rugby players cup competitions have never been so popular as among Association, but the com~ petition for the Yorkshire tup was very keen in the days before the establishment of the Northern Union, and this undoubtedly was the main cause of the popularity of the game in that county. In Association football the use of the hands or arms, either for the purpose of playing the ball or impeding or holding an opponent, is absolutely prohibited; dribbling or kicking the ball with the feet, and propelling it by the head or body, are the methods to be adopted. Association football is indeed, from the standpoint of the spectator, a much brighter game than it was in its infancy, the result of the new methods bringing every one of the eleven players into full relief throughtout the game. 67.1911encyclopedia.org /F/FO/FOOTBALL.htm   (11516 words)

Phantis: Greek Soccer In a snowy football pitch that made the game resemble a Bundesliga encounter, the match for the preliminary round of the Greek Football Cup, that was cancelled last week due to the adverse weather conditions,... Two of the Greek Cup’s surprise quarterfinalists, Ethnikos Asteras and Agrotikos Asteras, from the second and third divisions respectively, drew 1-1 in a first-leg encounter yesterday.... While the Greek First Division enjoys a two-week break for the Christmas holidays and new year’s eve, the last three days have been full of action and surprises in the other domestic competition, the Greek Cup, in the round of 16.... sports.phantis.com /soccer/cup/index.php   (365 words)

Greek football Cup - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Greek football Cup is the main "knockout" cup competition in Greek football. ¹ - The final between Panathinakos and Olympiakos was abandoned at 0-0 the Cup was not awarded. ³ - The Cup was awarded to AEK Athens after Olympiakos failed to show for the final. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Greek_football_Cup   (192 words)

FIFA.com The Official web site of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association Incidentally, it was not until nine years after the football rules had been established for the first time in 1863 that the size and weight of the ball were finally standardised. Shrovetide football, as it was called, belonged in the "mob football" category, where the number of players was unlimited and the rules were fairly vague (for example, according to an ancient handbook from Workington in England, any means could be employed to get the ball to its target with the exception of murder and manslaughter). The first football competition in the world was started in the same year - the FA Cup, which preceded the League Championship by 17 years. www.fifa.com /en/history/history/0,1283,1,00.html   (3360 words)

HELLENIC FOOTBALL FEDERATION S.A. has come to an agreement with the Hellenic Football Federation (H.F.F.) and has undertaken the Exclusive sponsorship for the Organization of the Greek Football Cup. The measures which were decided during the summer by the Hellenic Football Federation gave a fresh wind to the cup institution, therefore it΄s not by chance that in fact a team of the third National league is already in the semi-finals. It is a significant institution of the Greek Football and it is our wish to continue our co-operation through the following years. www.epo.gr /detail_uk.asp?e_article_id=8084&e_article_cat_id=15   (230 words)

Fernando Santos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Fernando Santos is a Portuguese football manager, born 10th October 1954 in Portugal. He started his football career in 1972 and he played at SL Benfica, Marítimo and GD Estoril-Praia. In 2001 Fernando Santos took over AEK FC, leading the club to the conquest of Greek Football Cup and lost the Championship from Olympiacos due to goal average. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fernando_Santos   (242 words)

Hellenic Sport, Greek Athletes 2/4 Greeks are usually divided in supporters of two main Groups, Olympiakos and Panathinaikos with fans often very fanatic and sometimes crazy. 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. Greeks never had the philosophy of the Germans who consider the games like “war” and loosing against some other as a national catastrophe and shame such that they speak about a revenge for a game lost decades before. www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/NewSport/Sport2.htm   (652 words)

Khaleej Times Online Football fans hope their favourite sport can emulate the Greek basketball team, which was catapulted from insignificance when they were crowned surprise European champions in 1987. "Greek football is in such a mess and so rotten that without government intervention, nothing good will come out of the team's success - we'll just think back of it as something good that happened a long time ago," he said. Greek teams are incapable of competing internationally, with the exception of Panathinaikos, who made it to the European Champions Cup final once in 1971 and twice to the semi-finals in 1984 and 1996. www.khaleejtimes.com /Displayarticle.asp?xfile=data/sports/2004/July/sports_July16.xml§ion=sports&subsection=football   (531 words)

Rivaldo set to join Olympiakos Greek Champions League hopefuls Olympiakos are poised to sign former World Player of the Year Rivaldo, the club said on Wednesday. Greek media have billed the deal as the "biggest-ever transfer in Greek football history", speculating the 32-year-old Brazilian would earn up to 1.5 million euros ($1.86 million) per year. The career of the 2002 World Cup winner has been in limbo since he was released by AC Milan in December. www.rediff.com /sports/2004/jul/21riv.htm   (195 words)

Nike football: Cup | Ads of the World Beer cups were given away in stadiums in which hatred for the "America" soccer team was the greatest. The idea is that once the other team's fans finish their beers, they will find a message at the bottom of the cup which says "Let's drink to the champion of champions, "Club America", hate me even more". This was meant to remind them that the team were the champions and that they had just, unwillingly, drank to them. adsoftheworld.com /media/ambient/nike_football_cup   (107 words)

History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) 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. At the end of the 19th century, sailors of the English navy introduced Football to the four corners of the earth. Minutes after the end of the match, thousands of Greeks poured into the streets, in Greece and all over the world, to celebrate the unprecedented success of Greek Football, in a party that lasted until the early morning hours. www.athens2004.com /en/FootballHistory   (751 words)

Boston.com / Sports / Soccer / Grecian formula: Plenty of defense The Greeks have good reason to be proud of their sporting traditions but also good reason to be disappointed in their soccer failures. Rehhagel has harnessed Greek pride and created an atmosphere of teamwork, minimizing the rivalries of clubs and regions, something former coach Alketas Panagoulias had been able to do with the national team in 1980, but failed to replicate in the 1994 World Cup. Meanwhile, Greek players who are not even regulars on their club teams were holding the trophy and Theodoris Zagorakis, who has set a record by playing 93 games without scoring a goal, was being named Euro 2004's outstanding player. www.boston.com /sports/soccer/articles/2004/07/06/grecian_formula_plenty_of_defense?pg=2   (538 words)

SOCCER - CBS SportsLine.com Federation chief Vassilis Gagatsis met the head of Athens' department of public prosecutions on Friday to request that Greek authorities be granted access to the details of the ongoing investigation in Germany. Greek media has reported that the three Croatians had a gambling associate in northern Greek city of Thessaloniki who arranged bets on Greek matches. Greek soccer authorities are also examining claims of irregularities in the Dec. 1 UEFA Cup match between Panionios Athens and Dinamo Tbilisi of Georgia. www.sportsline.com /soccer/story/8228555   (407 words)

Media Monitoring The Greek Ministry of Public Administration and representatives of the local authorities are putting into practice a special program for the Roma which has been launched by the European Union. They are squeezed in the worst corners of the camp, while their Greek «brothers» move freely all over the area and decorate their shelters with ornaments and flowers. The Greek Minister of the Press, D. Reppas, assures that an official police investigation has been ordered immediately after the publication of the articles about the abuse over the two Roma youngsters in the police station in Messologi. www.greekhelsinki.gr /english/media/roma-may98.html   (2505 words)

BigSoccer - [R] Greek Cup The winner of the Greek Cup used to go into the Cup Winners Cup UEFA competition but now that this competition is cancelled the cup winners of all the European countries get a place in the UEFA Cup... The most well known and older European National Cup competition is the FA cup in the UK. So the Greek Cup is similar to the Open Cup we have here in the US(although no way near the number of teams involved as in the Greek version). www.bigsoccer.com /forum/printthread.php?t=48246   (888 words)

Football - Rivaldo pens new Olympiakos deal - Eurosport The 33-year-old World Cup winner, who joined Olympiakos in 2004, had a contract that was due to expire on June 12. Greek media reports said the new deal is worth 1.9 million euros. They lead their Greek Cup semi-final against Larissa 3-1 after the first leg. www.eurosport.com /football/european-leagues/2005-2006/sport_sto859908.shtml   (167 words)

THISDAYonline   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) A club source described the Brazilian's move as a "done deal" while coach Dusan Bajevic said the World Cup winner's impending arrival in Athens was another huge boost for Greek football after their Euro 2004 success. "Players like him are needed on Greek pitches, needed in Olympiakos as well, I think he will offer us a lot, same as in the previous years he was playing," he told reporters, shortly before the team left for their Austrian training camp. Greek media have billed the deal as the "biggest-ever transfer in Greek football history", speculating the 32-year-old would earn up to 1.5 million euros ($1.86 million) per year. www.thisdayonline.com /archive/2004/07/22/20040722spo15.html   (222 words)

Alpha Ethniki The Alpha Ethniki is the highest professional football league in Greece. The winner of the Greek Cup automatically enters the UEFA Cup, as well as the teams that finish third through fifth in Alpha Ethniki. If both cup finalists are qualified for Europe by their league position, the sixth-place team in Alpha Ethniki is granted a UEFA Cup berth. www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/NewSport/AlphaEthniki.html   (488 words)

Sporting Life - Football | Champions League Live, Juventus v Arsenal, Lyon v AC Milan, Villarreal v Inter Milan, ... At a general assembly of club chairman, eight clubs voted in favour of the new move, which is aimed at bringing some much needed 'health' to domestic football in Greece, while five clubs withdrew from the voting and three stated their position as neutral. Although the vote has not been officially recognised as a 'decision' by EPAE, the Greek football league - who are opposed to the plan - it is a major boost for the proposal, which will be considered by EPAE's executive committee and Greek sports minister Giorgos Orfanos on Friday. The proposal, which was originally put forward by northern Greek side Skoda Xanthi, stipulates that clubs part of the new league would need to meet certain criteria regarding finances, stadia, and training facilities. www.sportinglife.com /football/overseas/other/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=international_feed/05/11/21/SOCCER_Gre-Ethniki_Katigoria.html   (509 words)

Football | World Cup round-up Not for the first time France were grateful to Zinedine Zidane in Paris last night, the three times Fifa world player of the year who recently returned from international retirement opening the scoring in a must-win game against Cyprus after 29 nervous minutes. It was his 28th international goal, his team-mates did the rest and the 1998 World Cup winners qualified as of right. Hordes of Greeks chanted Otto Rehhagel's name, saluting the German coach who led them to victory in the Euro 2004 final and out of contract at the end of the year. football.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5308089-103,00.html   (460 words)

ESPN.com Soccernet England: News - Greece-England qualifier gets FIFA go ahead   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) Football's world governing body had threatened to ban all Greek teams from international competition because of allegations of government interference into the Greek Football Association (EPO). All decisions regarding potential sanctions against the Greek FA are put on hold for the duration of the mentioned deadline of three months. Had the Greeks been suspended and the games they have already played been declared void then England, currently second in the group, would have gone top at the expense of current group leaders Germany, who have beaten the Greeks twice. www.soccernet.com /england/news/2001/0430/20010430enggreeceban.html   (446 words)

"Total Football" circus, Greek style Perhaps the fact that this very same PAOK team, which lost to a 3rd division Portuguese team beat the "Greens" 4-1 a few weeks earlier might have had something to do with that, along with the fact that their eternal arch-rivals were playing a couple of days later. A new system was born that night, the 4-5-1 with 3 strikers,"Total Lemonis Football", the game that was mastered by the "Flying Dutchmen" in the 70's "Total Football" was perfected by the "Flying Lemon-Man" 30 years later. The Greek European campaign that week was completed by Iraklis who defeated Anorthosis of Cyprus and Xanthi who lost 4-0 to Lazio and of course Euro-PAO's defeat of Litex Lovech with an own goal by a Bulgarian coal miner, another glorious chapter written in their European history. www.phantis.com /news?newsID=20020927115133   (1485 words)

BBC SPORT | WORLD CUP 2002 | Greece play down Venables link Venables was reported to be considering taking over the Greek national team - who lost 2-0 to England in a World Cup qualifying match on Wednesday. On Sunday, Venables told the News of the World newspaper: "I was approached by a representative of the Greek FA yesterday and asked whether I would like the job. Links to top World Cup 2002 stories are at the foot of the page. news.bbc.co.uk /sport/hi/english/football/world_cup_2002/newsid_1380000/1380907.stm   (293 words)

ekathimerini.com | Olympics legacy revives Greek football league   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) The new glitzy pitches, and to a lesser degree Greeks’ newfound enthusiasm for football after their national squad’s sensational triumph in July’s Euro 2004 in Portugal, have been widely credited for the national league’s emerging revival. The Greek government aims at reaching similarly successful leasing deals for the some 35 remaining Olympics venues in order to cover their maintenance costs, estimated to add up to 110 million euros a year. Hooliganism, an endemic disease in Greece’s football league, is a constant threat to AEK’s shining new facade. ekathimerini.com /4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_4576459_06/11/2004_49209   (632 words)

Greek sports, information about greek soccer, greek football, olympic games and more :: Hellenism.Net Bringing Greeks ... The huge success of the Greek national soccer team on the fields of Portugal has put Greek soccer on new tracks and has raised expectations regarding the future efforts of all those involved in this area even higher. Greek soccer teams like Olympiakos or Panathinaikos make it to the Champions League groups almost every year and basketball teams like Aris Salonica, Paok, Olympiakos and Panathinaikos have a long tradition of European success. You are invited to discuss about sports in Greece, soccer, football, basketball, volleyball, the olympic games or any other sport in our greek sports message board. www.hellenism.net /gr/athlitika1.htm   (200 words)

ESPN.com Soccernet Europe: News - Greece braced for FIFA decision   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) World soccer's governing body has said if the government did not assure the independence of the Greek Football Association (EPO) from the state by Thursday it would bar all clubs from international competitions, including the Champions League and the World Cup. Greek soccer has been plagued by dwindling attendances, match-fixing allegations and poor refereeing. Greek champions Olympiakos Piraeus have warned EPO they would seek multi-million dollar damages if they were not allowed to compete in next season's Champions League. www.soccernet.com /europe/news/2001/0426/20010426fifagreece.html   (218 words)

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