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South Melbourne Hellas Football Club used to be one of the top sides in Australia.

It has fed the Socceroos with 52 players including the current national team coach Ange Postecoglou. Postecoglou, who received the AFC coach of the year award in 2015, shares the same origin as Ulysses Kokkinos – a football legend in his time.

Former Manchester United goalkeeper Luke Steele says he is enjoying his time in Greece since making the decision to move there.

The ex-Red Devils player ended his stay in England when he decided to swap it for the Greek move two seasons ago.

The boss man of Paniliakos, one of the Greek football clubs has expressed his team's readiness for the upcoming season.

Manager Spyros Antonopoulos said that his players have been doing quite well in trainings and are fast learning how to follow instructions. He also is of the belief that his team can begin the season on a good note and go forward to improve on their rankings from last year.

Paniliakos coach has stated that his team is ready for the new season.

He said that the players have been training well and that they have followed the instructions closely. He believes that the team can have a good season and improve on last year’s rankings.

The European World Cup qualifiers got underway in the first international break of the new campaign in Europe. Group G opener would be the game between Albania and Macedonia.

The game promises to be a tough encounter as both sides have history on and off the pitch.

Paniliakos is busy preparing themselves for the new season.

The team has started training for the new season some two weeks back and are ready to play in their first friendly game against rival Limnochori. The match will be held in Syntriada.

Paniliakos players have been undergoing intense preparation in order to prepare themselves both physically and technically. The coach said that some players need a personalized training plan while others have been training with the team. The personalized training sessions are mainly for players that are recovering from injuries or players that have special needs.

Canada is back in the race to win a gold medal in the women’s football event at the 2016 Rio Olympics. They defeated their French opponents by a lone goal in a keenly contested match on Friday, August 12m 2016.

Canada reached the top three in the last Olympics hosted in London after defeating France 1-0 at the semi finals to pick up the bronze medal. This year again, the Canadian women repeated the same feat but on a lower rung by getting past them by the same margin to reach the semi finals. The higher-ranked French opposition hoped to pull a revenge at the quarterfinals, but it quite happen.

Michael Skibbe reckons the Sky-blue white can’t take as long to come to full flow as they took during the first game of their OZ visit in which they got defeated by one goal by the hosts.

The coach, a native of West Germany, has called for more rush from his players from first minute itself as the action shifts to Melbourne.

Ahead of second game, Skibbe said, “It was more of us letting the opposition dominate than the opposition dominating us. I mean when you err so much, it will help the other team and they will of course look better.”

The group stage of the Euro 2016 hosted by France has ended, but speculations about who might lift the trophy have increased.

The likely winners were picked out earlier but after the group stage, the tournament shows it is still very open. There was a time an underdog came from behind to steal the trophy. Greece at Euro 2004.

Greece and Australia won each leg of two friendly games played.

The Socceroos defeated Greece 1-0 in their first friendly on the back of a 94th-minute Mathew Leckie strike. On the other hand, Greece returned the favour with a 2-1 victory on Tuesday at the Etihad Stadium.