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Olympiacos champions againOlympiacos retained the Greek league title two matches before the end of last season. It is the 35th championship in the club's history and their tenth Greek league title in eleven years. Champions Olympiakos qualified the group stage of the 2007/08 UEFA Champions League, while runners-up AEK Athens secured the 3rd qualifying round of European football's top competition. Panathinaikos, Aris and Panionios, as well as Greek Cup winners Larissa will all figure in this season's UEFA Cup. Ionikos, Egaleo and Kerkyra were relegated to the second division. Here are all winners and losers at the end of the 2006/07 Greek football league campaign:
* The table shows the overall number of titles since 1928 for each club in the Greek football league, and their league standings in the last five seasons. Rivaldo sagaRivaldo, a former FIFA world player of the year, has quit Olympiakos after failing to agree terms on a contract extension. The 35-year-old Brazilian playmaker, who joined the Piraeus club in summer 2004, has been instrumental last season as Olympiakos claimed a third successive championship. Rivaldo scored 17 goals in 25 games last term. However, he has surprised Olympiakos fans by moving to league rivals AEK Athens. Rivaldo has agreed a two-year free transfer deal which, including bonuses, could be worth up to 2m a year to the player. After losing Rivaldo, Olympiacos have strengthened their squad ahead of the new season by signing several experienced players. Portsmouth striker Lomana LuaLua has put pen to paper on a three-year contract with the Greek champions, who are believed to have paid a fee in the region of 3.5m for the Congolese international. Spanish defender Raul Bravo has joined Olympiacos on a four-year contract from Real Madrid for 2.3m, while Argentine winger Luciano Galletti arrives from Atletico Madrid for a similar fee.
* The table displays Greek National League standings for season 2005/2006. Disappointing seasonPanathinaikos have fired coach Victor Munoz following a disappointing season. The 50-year-old Spaniard took over in October 2006, replacing Hans Backe. However, The Athens club finished third in the Greek League this season, 17 points behind champions Olympiacos and out of the UEFA Champions League qualification places. Panathinaikos also lost to Larissa in the Greek Cup final. The new boss is Jose Peseiro. The 47-year-old Portuguese manager, who coached Real Madrid in the 2003/04 season, was in charge at Sporting Portugal between 2004 and 2006 before spending last campaign with Saudi Arabian side Al-Hilal Club. This page is introduction to the 2007/2008 Greek National League season. Latest news, statistics, results and predictions you can find on our main Euro Football > Greece page. Emilio Ferrera has been appointed the new coach of Xanthi. The 40-year-old, who last coached Belgian side Brugge, replaced Nikos Kehagias who had been at Xanthi's helm since last February. Ferrera has signed a two-year contract with the Greek club.
Greek Cup finals in last five years2003 PAOK - Aris 1:0 Larisa striker Henri Antchouet has been suspended for two years by the Greek Football Federation after testing positive for a banned substance following the 2007 Greek Cup final. The Gabon international scored the winner for Larisa as they beat Panathinaikos 2-1 but the outcome of the final would not be affected, the disciplinary committee confirmed in a statement earlier this summer. |
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key playersAEK AthensGoalkeeper Marcelo Moretto (1.5m); Defense: Traianos Dellas (3.6m), Rodolfo Martin Arruabarrena (2.3m), Nikolaos Georgeas (1m), Sokratis Papastathopoulos (0.5m); Midfield: Rivaldo (4.6m), Vassilios Zikos (3m), Daniel Tozser (0.5m); Forward: Nikos Liberopoulos (4m), Julio Cesar (2.5m), Gustavo Manduca (2m). ArisGoalkeeper Konstantinos Chalkias (1.2m); Defense: Ronaldo (1.5m), Avraam Papadopoulos (1m), Efthimios Kouloucheris (0.6m), Georgios Koltsidas (0.2m); Midfield: Athanasios Prittas (0.8m), Konstantinos Nebelgeras (0.8m), Jonan Garcia (0.7m), Ronald Nacho Garcia (0.7m); Forward: Koke (2.5m), Javito (1.8m). Asteras TripolisGoalkeeper Georgios Ambaris (1m); Defense: Manolis Psomas (0.8m), Jean (0.6m), Cyril Kali (0.4m), Xenofontas Moskogiannis (0.4m); Midfield: Horacio Ramon Cardozo (0.8m), Rosario Goncalves Martins (0.3m); Forward: Mauro Ramiro Milano (0.8m), Lucio Filomeno (0.8m), Daniel Cesarec (0.7m), Christos Moustogiannis (0.5m). AtromitosGoalkeeper Chrysostomos Michailidis (1m); Defense: Georgios Anatolakis (1.5m), Giannis Katemis (0.6m), Dimitrios Geladaris (0.6m), Marcelo Jose Oliveira (0.5m); Midfield: Luciano (1.6m), Roberto Merino (1.3m), Dimitrios Ioannou (0.6m), Georgios Korakakis (0.5m); Forward: Esteban Jose Herrera (0.8m), Giannis Lazanas (0.6m). ErgotelisGoalkeeper Zsolt Posza (0.6m); Defense: Mario Hieblinger (0.5m), Darko Miladin (0.5m); Midfield: Georgios Theodoridis (1m), Altin Haxhi (0.8m), Dimitrios Kiliaras (0.7m), Ivan Tasic (0.5m), Pascalis Melissas (0.4m), Panagiotis Kordonouris (0.2m); Forward: Junior (0.9m), Dragan Nacevski (0.5m). IraklisGoalkeeper Urko (0.5m); Defense: Dimitrios Mavrogenidis (1.4m), Anastasios Katsambis (0.9m), Grigorios Papazacharias (0.7m); Midfield: Nebojsa Marinkovic (1.6m), Binho (1.3m), Juraj Czinege (0.6m), Martin Zboncak (0.5m), Ilias Poursanidis (0.5m); Forward: Nikolaos Nikolopoulos (0.6m), Joze Benko (0.6m). KalamariaGoalkeeper Pavel Kovac (0.5m); Defense: Vance Sikov (1m), Sokratis Fyntanidis (0.8m), Achilleas Sarakatsanos (0.4m), Nikolaos Papadopoulos (0.4m); Midfield: Vela (0.5m), Aristidis Galanopoulos (0.4m); Forward: Alban Bushi (0.7m), Gonzalez Wellington (0.7m), Emanuel Perrone (0.5m), Lucas Gabriel Favalli (0.4m). LarisaGoalkeeper Stefanos Kotsolis (1.4m); Defense: Nikolaos Dabizas (1m), Georgios Galitsios (1m), Panagiotis Katsiaros (0.5m), Anastasios Venetis (0.4m), Marco Forster (0.3m); Midfield: Silva (1.4m), Georgios Fotakis (0.9m), Dimitrios Gikas (0.8m); Forward: Guga (0.9m), Christos Kalantzis (0.7m). LevadiakosGoalkeeper Srdjan Blazic (0.7m); Defense: Paraskevas Andralas (0.7m), Goran Popov (0.5m), Anastasios Pastos (0.4m); Midfield: Ivan Rusev (0.8m), Sebastian Schindzielorz (0.8m), Kostas Kiassos (0.7m), Giannis Chrisafis (0.4m), Fritz Emeran (0.4m), Georgios Zisopoulos (0.4m); Forward: Patrick Dimbala (0.7m). OFI CreteGoalkeeper Tristan Peersman (0.5m); Defense: Cosmin Barcauan (1m), Pierre Issa (0.7m), Manolis Roumpakis (0.5m), Minas Pitsos (0.5m); Midfield: Fabian Gerber (1.5m), Giannis Taralidis (1.3m), Stylianos Sfakianakis (0.6m); Forward: Goran Drulic (1.5m), Peter Ofori-Quaye (0.8m), Joseph Nwafor (0.7m). OlympiakosGoalkeeper Antonios Nikopolidis (2m); Defense: Raul Bravo (3.6m), Julio Cesar (2.5m), Michal Zewlakow (2.5m), Didier Domi (2m); Midfield: Luciano Galletti (5m), Ieroklis Stoltidis (3.2m), Predrag Djordjevic (2.7m); Forward: Michalis Konstantinou (5.8m), Darko Kovacevic (5.5m), Lomana Tresor Lua Lua (5.5m). PanathinaikosGoalkeeper Mario Galinovic (1.8m); Defense: Nasief Morris (3.5m), Anthony Seric (2.3m), Mikael Nilsson (1.8m), Giannis Goumas (1.8m), Loukas Vyntra (1.7m); Midfield: Andreas Ivanschitz (3.5m), Alexandros Tziolis (2m), Sebastian Ariel Romero (1.8m); Forward: Dimitrios Salpingidis (6m), Dimitrios Papadopoulos (3.5m). PanioniosGoalkeeper Miroslav Konig (0.8m); Defense: Nikolaos Spiropoulos (0.9m), Marcelo Pletsch (0.5m), Sekou Berthe (0.5m); Midfield: Bennard Yao Kumordzi (0.9m), Euripidis-Grigorios Makos (0.7m), Fanouris Goundoulakis (0.7m), Christos Aravidis (0.5m); Forward: Lourenco (1.5m), Michael Delura (1.2m), Rafik Zoheir Djebbour (0.7m). PAOKGoalkeeper Daniel Marcio Fernandes (1.8m); Defense: Nikolaos Arabatzis (0.9m), Ilias Charalambous (0.9m), Christos Melissis (0.8m), Sotirios Balafas (0.8m); Midfield: Ivica Iliev (1.8m), Vassilios Lakis (1.8m), Stylianos Iliadis (1.6m), Pantelis Konstantinidis (0.8m); Forward: Glen Salmon (1.3m), Zisis Vryzas (1.1m). VeriaGoalkeeper Joost Terol (1m); Defense: Dimitrios Balafas (0.5m), Dimitrios Samaras (0.3m), Georgios Koltzos (0.3m); Midfield: Dimitrios Petkakis (0.6m), Paul de Lange (0.5m), Stefano Seedorf (0.5m), Sasa Ranic (0.5m), Radovan Krivokapic (0.4m); Forward: Maciej Bykowski (0.3m), Karim Mouzaoui (0.2m). XanthiGoalkeeper Ivan Turina (0.7m); Defense: Athanasios Kostoulas (1.4m), Spyridon Vallas (1m); Midfield: Georgios Barkoglou (1.1m), Francisco Zuela (0.9m), Patrice Noukeu (0.8m), Dimitrios Kontodimos (0.5m), Kostantinos Fliskas (0.2m); Forward: Stavros Labriakos (1m), Diego Quintana (0.7m), Vlasis Kazakis (0.5m). |
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