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A Shorten Labor Government would invest $2.5 million towards upgrades supporting community and female football participation at Heidelberg United Football Club’s home ground, Olympic Park. Heidelberg United is proud to have developed 15 Australian representatives and to be an advocate of female…

Top seed Stefanos Tsitsipas clinched his second ATP Tour singles title with a 7-5 7-6(5) victory over Kazakhstan’s Mikhail Kukushkin at the Marseille Open. Tsitsipas, who reached the Australian Open semi-finals last month, battled hard to clinch victory over the 31-year-old Kukushkin…

Greece completed its qualifying campaign for the 2019 World Cup finals with a 69-63 victory in Germany, topping its group and looking forward to getting seeded in next month’s draw for the finals in China. Playing in front of a mixed crowd…

The Greens continued their perfect start to the 2019 NPL season with a victory over Pascoe Vale in a 6-goal thriller at CB Smith Reserve in Fawkner. Josh Barresi continued his good run of form nodding home from a corner after 17…

AEK is the proud winner of the 2019 FIBA Intercontinental Cup, a trophy it has won for the first time in its history to become the third Greek club after Panathinaikos and Olympiakos to reach for the global throne. In the tournament’s…

The tricky dynamic behind admitting Western Melbourne for the next A-League campaign is likely to mean a 26-match league; a compromised AFL-style draw that’s seen as a necessary evil, as the competition expands. Consensus is growing behind a slightly shorter A-League season…

It may have started off shakily, but Bentleigh Greens have gotten their 2019 NPL Victoria campaign off to the best possible start after defeating South Melbourne 3-1 at Kingston Heath in the opening round of the season. Things didn’t appear promising for…

Ten-man PAOK preserved its unbeaten record in the Super League, snatching a 1-1 draw at AEK, so Olympiakos has reduced the distance from the top to six points, ahead of the all-important clash with PAOK next Sunday in Thessaloniki. This was only…

Australian soccer player Hakeem al-Araibi has begged a Thai court not to be sent to Bahrain. The 25-year-old who was granted refugee status in Australia will spend at least two more months detained in Thailand after a court today set an extradition…

The 2019 season kicks off with the FV Community Shield at ABD Stadium. Heidelberg United will take on Bentleigh Greens for what promises to be a great game. In 2018 Heidelberg met once more with the Greens, winning by 4-1. The FFV…

PAOK, Olympiakos and AEK scored comfortable wins over the weekend, as they prepare to face each other in the Super League next month, with PAOK maintaining its eight-point advantage at the top of the table. The Thessaloniki giant is on 47 points…

Apostolos Tsitsipas talking to 3XY: “I lived with him the dreams. It’s very important to let the kids live the dreams, to inspire them and to go for it.” After weeks of hype, Australian Open star Stefanos Tsitsipas appeared was farewelled from…