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Mitropoulos was born in Volos, and started his football career at local team Aris Petroupoli.In 1976, he joined Ethnikos Piraeus, where he played five seasons.In 1981, he moved on to the largest Piraeus club, Olympiacos, winning three league titles and two Greek cup titles with the team.
The Greece national football team (Greek: Εθνική Ελλάδας, Ethniki Elladas) represents Greece in men's international football matches, and is controlled by the Hellenic Football Federation, the governing body for football in Greece. Greece is one of only ten national teams to have been crowned UEFA European Champions.
After the demolition of the Karaiskakis Stadium and the construction of New Karaiskakis Stadium the association has established its Gate 7. It has a total of 156 sub-links in various parts of the world, in Greece, Cyprus, America, Germany, London, California , Ireland , Bologna , Belgrade and two major Greek communities in Australia, Sydney and Melbourne.
The Greek national team's first match came on April 7, 1929, in a 1–4 loss to Italy. Greece have qualified for the FIFA World Cup three times, in 1994, in 2010 and in 2014. Greece have qualified for the European Championship four times, their first in 1980, their second in 2004, their third in 2008 and their fourth in 2012.
[4] [5] [6] Other important landmarks of Greek football in European competitions are the participation of Panathinaikos in the 1971 European Cup final and in the semi-finals of the 1985 and 1996 editions. The best UEFA Cup campaign was AEK Athens run to the semi-finals in 1977. Greek clubs have reached at least the quarter-finals of a European ...
All 105 soccer fans suspected of being involved in extensive clashes in the Greek capital that ended in the death of a 29-year-old AEK Athens supporter have been ordered to be detained pending ...
On 16 July 2006 the Alpha Ethniki was replaced as the highest league in the Greek football system by the Super League Greece 1. [1] In 1962-2019, the Football League was the second level of the league system, until 2010 as Beta Ethniki. After the formation of Superliga 2, in 2019/20 and 2020/21, the Football League was the third tier and Gamma ...
The Derby of the Eternal Enemies (Greek: Ντέρμπι των αιωνίων αντιπάλων), also known among fans as the Mother of All Battles (Greek: μητέρα όλων των μαχών), is an association football derby contested between two of the most successful clubs of Greece, Olympiacos from Piraeus and Panathinaikos from the capital Athens.