September 2019- Page 2

Barcelona’s Lionel Messi won the best men’s player at the Best Fifa Football Awards in Milan as Juventus’ Cristiano Ronaldo and Liverpool’s Virgil van Dijk missed out on the top prize. It is the sixth time Messi has been voted the world’s…

PAOK and Olympiakos dropped their first points this season, in their local derbies, with PAOK leaving it very late to avoid a home loss to Aris and Olympiakos conceding a late equalizer at the Derby of Eternal Rivals to draw with host…

Substitutes Aleks Jovic and Michael Domfeh struck in extra time as Perth Soccer Club defeated Heidelberg United 3-2 in a pulsating NPL Finals Series clash in Port Melbourne. Heidelberg’s Andrew Cartanos cancelled out Paul Zimarino’s early goal to take the match into…

Fremantle captain Nat Fyfe has won the 2019 Brownlow Medal, claiming the AFL’s greatest individual honour for a second time. Fyfe polled 33 votes, prevailing over Geelong’s Patrick Dangerfield (27), Brisbane’s Lachie Neale and Carlton’s Patrick Cripps (26 each) in a dramatic…

Bentleigh  Greens have  become one of the powerhouses of Victorian football: a rise which was capped off with their third NPL Victoria Championship in five years. The Championships earned in 2015, 2017 and 2019 join the 2016 Premiership, 2016 and 2018 Dockerty…

The “inaugural” participation by Greek Finance Minister Christos Staikouras at a Eurogroup session came on Friday in Helsinki, as the new Mitsotakis government continues to “test the waters” over European creditors’ potential acquiescence for reduced annual fiscal targets. The December Eurogroup meeting…