Olympiacos F.C.

Olympiacos FC leader Evangelos Marinakis has once again has garnered the most votes of any candidate in the Piraeus City Council election of 26 May.

Marinakis was the top vote-getter in the 2014 Piraeus City Council contest as well.

Evangelos Marinakis - in his capacity as a candidate for the Piraeus City Council on the Piraeus Victorious ticket and chief of the city's  Olympiacos FC - today lambasted the government and PM Alexis Tsipras in particular  in a no-holds-barred interview with journalist  Yorgos Tragas on Parapolitika 90.1 radio.

FC Olympiacos owner Evangelos Marinakis has made bombshell charges against Petros and Sokratis Kokkalis [the business tycoon who previously owned Olympiacos], as well as against businessman and AEK FC owner Dimitris Melissanidis and PAOK FC owner Ivan Savvidis.

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.
 

Amidst feverish preparations for the Piraeus mayor election in May, Mayor Yannis Moralis outlined the major public works in the Piraeus city centre that have been completed during his term in a post on his personal Facebook account wall.

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.

Olympiacos FC beat Burnley FC 3-1 at the Georgios Karaiskakis stadium in Piraeus on Thursday to move closer to the UEFA Europa League group stage.

The score opened for Olympiacos in the 19th minute with Kostas Fortounis, but the English team equalized in the 33rd minute with a penalty shot by Chris Wood.

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.

Greek shipping tycoon and the owner of Olympiakos Piraeus and Nottingham Forest soccer teams, Vangelis Marinakis, denied any links to drug trafficking on Saturday, a day after a Greek prosecutor brought preliminary charges against him.

Greek champion Olympiakos Piraeus appointed Oscar Garcia Junyent as their new coach on Friday, just 24 hours after axing former incumbent Takis Lemonis.

The Piraeus giant, who has won the Greek top flight a record 44 times, announced the arrival of the Spaniard in a brief statement on its website (www.olympiacos.org).