Hellas Football

Has the Greek National Team finally found the man to take them forward? In the last two UEFA EURO 2020 qualifying games against Italy and Bosnia and Herzegovina we have seen a team that seems united and that is executing the game plans of a flexible manager, which arguably for a large majority of time since the end of the 2014 FIFA World Cup has been non existent. The Italy Game: Prior to this fixture, and after the unacceptable draw with Liechtenstein, I had serious doubts once again about the man employed by the EPO for the Ethniki, and on paper it seemed like the Italians were going to make life only more miserable, but much to my surprise and delight a relatively inexperienced Greece put up a genuinely serious fight against a powerhouse of world football, there was an obvious game plan and the players bought into it.  Italy found it so difficult to break a stubborn Greece down that it took a needless handball by Andreas Bouchalakis inside the penalty area early in th...

Orestis Kiomourtzoglou is a 21 year old German-Greek footballer. At such a young age he already had amassed over 100 professional football matches firstly at his boyhood club in Germany, SpVgg Unterhaching and currently now in Holland for Eredivisie club Heracles Almelo.  He’s a tall commanding yet game controlling midfielder, with good vision that is making a name for himself and gaining the attention he deserves. He was kind enough to give us this one on one chat as a little get to know you.  Can you tell us a little bit about your background and how you got into football? I was born and raised in Munich and as a lot of kids in Germany, we all loved watching and playing football. I always wanted to become a footballer so with a lot of hard work and dedication I have been lucky enough to be able to do the thing I love as a job. What part of Greece is your family from and have you visited it? My father was born in Thessaloniki and moved to Munich in Ge...