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Greece got a smooth draw for the first group stage of the 2019 Basketball World Cup in China, and will likely meet Team USA in the second group stage, which means it will avoid it at least in the first knock-out round.…

Coach Ante Milicic will take his side to the same training base used by the Socceroos in the lead-up to Russia 2018, utilising the hot-weather resort’s elite training and recovery facilities. The decision is a win for gender equality, given the princely…

While Sydney FC routinely attract well over 10,000 to their A-League home games, five figure ACL attendances have been in short supply since their first crack at the competition in 2007. Champions’ League midweek football remains a tough sell in Australia, with…

In a weekend where the top six teams of the table faced each other, the Athens derby between AEK and Panathinaikos ended goalless and PAOK got even closer to sealing an unbeaten championship title. Most Super League teams appeared to have the…

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…