Tag Archives: greece
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Greek Soccer Player Banned for Life After Performing Nazi Salute (Video)
Even sports fans who don’t follow soccer closely know that racism is perhaps the biggest problem the sport faces in the 21st century. Whether it is racist players or racist fans, there just seems to be one soccer racism scandal after another. Well, the Greek soccer federation has apparently decided that the only way to [...]
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Greek Footballer Hits Four Posts With One Shot (Video)
Few footballers can say that they’ve hit the woodwork four times in a single game. Egeas Plomariou, on the other hand, can claim to have accomplished the feat…with a single shot! It happened during a game between Lesvos and Papnikolis of Greece’s lower football leagues, as Plomariou’s shot ricocheted off the far post, crossbar, near post and back across [...]
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Exploding Flare Thrown At Injured Player And Medics During Greek Soccer Game (Video)
What’s that NHL Players? The NHL doesn’t want to give you your fare share of the hockey-related revenues? Oh, I’m so sorry to hear that. But hey, look on the bright side: at least nobody throws explosive deviced at you while you’re playing. Soccer players, unfortunately, cannot say the same thing. A little over a [...]
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Amateur Greek Soccer Club Gets Sponsorship Deal With Bordello That Includes Free “Services” If They Win (Video)
You’ve probably heard about how the Greek economy is in shambles, right? Well, as a result, the government has had to introduce a ton of spending cuts and austerity measures. And these cuts have apparently hit the country’s amateurs soccer clubs very hard. Wait? What? The Greek government was sponsoring amateur sports clubs? Like, for [...]
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Greek Athlete Expelled From Olympics For Racist Tweet
The Olympics are supposed to be a time when athletes of all colors, nationalities, religious, shapes and sizes can come together and celebrate sportsmanship and unity (which is depicted through the five interlocked rings of the Olympic symbol–which represent each of the five participating continents) with one another… …Just don’t tell that to Greek triple-jump [...]
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Czech Players Involved In Some Weird On-Field Incidents At Euro 2012 (Videos)
Through their first two games at Euro 2012, the Czech Republic has had its ups and downs in terms of results. They got hammered by Russia in their first game, but then rebounded to defeat Greece 2-1 in their second game. They’ve also had some players involved in a couple of notable on-field incidents during [...]
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Red Bull Takes Parkour To The Greek Island Of Santorini (Video)
The Greek Island of Santorini is already capable of inspiring a sense of awe to anyone who witnesses its beauty. The people of Red Bull decided to add to the awe-factor of the Santorini landscape by having some of the top parkour athletes compete in a competition that required them to use rooftops, domes, terraces [...]
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Here Is A Look At Why Greek Basketball Fans Are Better Than American Basketball Fans (Video)
The scene in the stands during a Greek playoff basketball match looks nothing like what you would find during an NBA Finals game in Miami, Florida. No moon, boots. No giants head of Mark Cuban being held up by douchebags with excessive amounts of bling. No white outs. Instead, what you will find is something [...]
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Panathinaikos Chased Off The Pitch By Their Own Fans (Video)
Booing appears to be the most common way for sports fans to voice their displeasure with their slumping clubs. However, in recent weeks we have seen some rather interesting alternatives being deployed throughout the world. A few weeks earlier, fans in Toronto could be found pelting their hometown Maple Leafs with Eggo Waffles. As for [...]
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That Should Teach Him Not To Dive Next Time (Video)
Are you sick of all those soccer players diving around the pitch like the Chinese aquatics team? Ever wonder if there was something we could do in order to stop them? Well thanks to this Greek player, we may finally have an answer. Just check out his reaction once he receives his second yellow card [...]
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Greece And Serbia Engage In A Basket-Brawl
The last time I checked, Serbian-Greece relations were actually quite friendly, but I guess that does not extend onto the basketball court. During the final game of a friendly Acropolis basketball tournament, things were anything but friendly as a brawl between the Greek and Serbian teams broke out, causing the game to be called with [...]
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Picture Of The Day: They’ll Do Anything To Stop Lionel Messi
How do you slow down Lionel Messi? Nigeria and South Korea tried just about everything in their power, from vicious slide tackles, to grabbing his jersey, but their efforts were largely unsuccessful as the man they call “The Flea” has terrorized defenses through the opening round of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. However, on Tuesday [...]
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Rate This World Cup Dive (Video)
Nigeria held a 1-0 lead and were dominating the run of play thirty minutes into their match with Greece yesterday afternoon at the Free State Stadium in Bloemfontein, South Africa. Then with one swift kick of the boot, the tables turned on the African side. Chasing down a ball that was headed out of bounds, [...]
