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The Greek government has asked the Super League to hold championship matches without spectators for two months because of the risk of trouble. 

This measure, announced by government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis on Monday after a meeting at Maximos Mansion on Sunday, follows serious clashes involving sports fans that resulted in a police officer being critically injured by a flare.

With Greece set to host the UEFA Super Cup final in just under a month's time, the Citizen Protection Ministry on Monday convened a meeting of all the relevant agencies to discuss security measures for the big soccer match on August 16.

Athens will host two European football finals over the coming 16 months. They include the final of the Conference League that will be held in the OPAP Arena in May 2024, as well as the European Super Cup that will be held at the Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium in 2023.

At least four German fans of Bayern Munich were injured on Tuesday evening when dozens of men barged into Olympiacos' training center in Rendi, Athens, during a game between the two clubs' under-19 teams and attacked them.

The incident took place just hours before a Champions League clash between the two clubs in Piraeus.

It has been nine years, and yet it seems like yesterday. It is that "huge" sound that the port makes on everything that decides the present and future of Olympiacos. The discussion is about Sokratis Kokkalis who with the passing of time wants to withdraw, but mainly about the new, Vangelis Marinakis, the son of Miltiadis, who was raised in Karaiskaki Stadium.

Greek police Friday were investigating a suspected arson attack on a tourist bus near downtown Karaiskaki Square at around 5 a.m.
Two fire engines were dispatched to respond to the incident.
The vehicle, believed to be owned by an Albanian company, was completely destroyed but there were no reports of injuries. 

A police officer sustained minor injuries during an attack on a patrol car in Piraeus on Sunday shortly after a soccer match at the Karaiskaki stadium

The attack involved 10 people sticks and stones and came shortly after Olympiakos beat visiting Xanthi 4-0.

The patrol car was damaged in the assault which ended without arrests as the assailants fled.
 

Impact Hub presents "Pitch Your Failure," an event where four social entrepreneurs from Greece, Cyprus, Morocco and Spain will talk about their failures rather than their successes. The November 23 event, which starts at 7 p.m., is organized with the support of ChangemakerXchange, Ashoka, the Goethe Institute in Athens and UIDU.

At least one fan was stabbed and eight police officers were reported injured in a series of fan clashes on Friday ahead of Saturday's Greek Cup final between AEK and PAOK in Athens. The clashes were also said to have involved Olympiakos fans too.

Many things are about to change in the national team set-up following the elimination to Croatia from the 2018 World Cup, but manager Michael Skibbe is not one of them.

After 12 years at the Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium in Piraeus, the national team will likely relocate to the Olympic Stadium of Athens and the Kaftanzoglio Stadium in Thessaloniki.