Panathinaikos Athlitikos Omilos, also known simply as Panathinaikós[panˈaθinai̯ˈkos], is a major Greek multi-sport club based in the City of Athens. Panathinaikos is one of the most successful multi-sport clubs and one of the oldest clubs in Greece. The name "Panathinaikos" was inspired by the ancient work of Isocrates Panathenaicus, where the orator praise the Athenians for their democratic education and their military superiority, which use it for benefit of all Greeks.
Giorgos Kalafatis was a Greek football pioneer, player, coach, track and field athlete and the founder of Panathinaikos Athens multi-sports club.
Panathinaikos Football Club ), known as Panathinaikos, or by its full name, and the name of its parent sports club, Panathinaikos A.O. or PAO, is a Greek professional football club based in Athens, Greece.
Apostolos Nikolaidis Stadium, commonly known as Leoforos Alexandras Stadium or Leoforos Stadium, is a football stadium and multi-sport center in Athens, Greece. It was inaugurated in 1922 and is the oldest football stadium in Greece currently active. It is the traditional athletic center of Panathinaikos A.C. and has been the home ground of Panathinaikos FC for the most part of the club's existence.
Vasilis Hatzipanagis is a Greek former professional footballer. He played for Iraklis in the Greek Alpha Ethniki and Pakhtakor in the Soviet Supreme League. He also played for Greece and the Soviet Union side. Hatzipanagis has been described as "the Greek Maradona".
Apostolos Nikolaidis was a Greek athlete, football manager and businessman. He was a leading board member and president of Panathinaikos A.C.
Nikolaos Frousos is a former Greek footballer who played for Cyprus giants Anorthosis Famagusta.
The derby of the eternal rivals, also called mother of all battles, is a football local derby in the Athens urban area between the most successful clubs of Greece, Olympiacos and Panathinaikos. The rivalry between the clubs and their fans is intense, thus this derby has always been a classic for the Greek capital, as well as the whole of Greece, the most prestigious in the country. The derby is traditionally included among the world's top 10 greatest football derbies by the international media, along with rivalries such as Real Madrid–Barcelona, Liverpool–Manchester United and Boca Juniors–River Plate. American network CNN has ranked the Olympiacos–Panathinaikos derby among the ten greatest football rivalries of all-time. In October 2014, BBC named the Olympiacos–Panathinaikos derby as "Europe's maddest derby" and in September 2019, Daily Mirror ranked the derby of the eternal enemies as the fifth most important derby in the world.
Apostolos Giannou is a professional footballer who plays as a forward. Born in Greece, he represented various Greek and Australian youth national teams, including one friendly with the Greece national team, before appearing competitively for the Australia national team.
Apostolos Vellios is a Greek professional footballer who plays as a striker for Eredivisie club PEC Zwolle.
Andreas Govas is a Greek Australian former footballer. During the 2007–08 season, he was a member of Portsmouth's Academy. He played for Greece's national youth team with Greek-Australians Dean Bouzanis and Paul Giannou.
Apostolos "Lakis" Papaioannou is a retired Greek professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
Apostolos or Apostolis (Αποστόλης) is a common male Greek given name, which means "apostle". The diminutive form Tolis (Τόλης) is also common. Bearers of the name include:
Apostolos Vasilios Stamatelopoulos is an Australian professional footballer who plays as a forward for A-League Men club Newcastle Jets.
Apostolos Stikas is a Greek professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Super League 2 club Niki Volos.
Apostolos Konstantopoulos is a Greek professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Belgian club Beerschot.
Apostolos Kotsianoulis is a Greek professional footballer who plays as a forward for Super League 2 club Apollon Larissa.
The 1941–42 Panhellenic Championship did not occur due the events of the WW2 and the Axis occupation of Greece. The Union of Greek Athletes was substantially re-established in 1942, with track and field athletes on the front line. Fundraising, food, healthcare and monitoring were their main activities. The needy, the suffering, but also the tuberculosis sufferers who left their last breath in the bloody beds of "Sotiria", saw a helping hand from the UoGA. Nevertheless, its role enlarged in the second half of 1942 when football joined in. The 1941–42 season was the one with the least sports activity during the years of The Occupation. Its known for sure that 2 friendly games were organized. One was between Olympiacos and Ethnikos Piraeus with a result of 4–0 in favor of the former, in which Nikos Godas also scored, who was the most emblematic figure of a football player in the vortex of the events of the time. The second would not be held, but it would be remembered for the protest that started during and afterwards the cancelation of the match.
Apostolos Christopoulos is a Greek professional footballer who plays as a forward for Super League 2 club AEK Athens B.
The 1950–53 Mediterranean Cup or 1950-53 Eastern Mediterranean Cup was the second tournament of the Mediterranean Cup, which is a football competition contested by men's national teams and national B teams of the states bordering the Mediterranean Sea. The tournament was played on the road and spanned three years, and it was played in a round-robin system in which the four teams involved played two matches against each other. Egypt, Turkey and Greece participated with their A teams, while Italy disputed this tournament with their B team, and they won with 8 points while Greece finished in second with 7 points.
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