Hellas Football

  Who is Carlos Corberan? By Stephen Kountourou For supporters of Olympiakos, this is a question that many have asked since the Spaniard's arrival, at the expense of long-serving Portuguese tactician Pedro Martins. Many snippets of the 38-year-olds career have been discussed over the last few weeks since he took on the tough task of managing the biggest club in Greek football. “He did well with Huddersfield”, “he worked under Bielsa and plays his teams in a similar style to the Argentine.”  While of course, this information is very relevant, not many have delved deeper into his early career as a coach and just how he honed his play style to where it is today. For example, many fail to state that his managerial career did not start in the north of England with Championship side Huddersfield Town. But the Spaniard began his managerial career on the Island of Cyprus in 2016. There he coached both Doxa Katokopias and Ermis Aradippou albeit for not very long as he was in both jobs ...

The Giannoulis Replacement, It’s a Two-horse Race By Christian Leggas  Dimitris Giannoulis' most-recent setback is a shame for him, his domestic club and his country. A ligament injury has forced the left-back to miss the next eight weeks, which barring a better than expected recovery, rules him out of Greece's final two UEFA Nations League matches next month. But they say when one door closes, another one opens and in my view? There are only two candidates who can fill that void. Let's look to see who those men are. Kostas Stafylidis Joining German outfit VFL Bochum has been an arguable career-saving move for Stafylidis. Thomas Reis put his faith in the injury-prone yet versatile player, and he has not looked back. Stafylidis was able to string together over twenty matches in all competitions last season for the first time in five years, twenty-six to be exact and played his part in six clean sheets from that appearances total, but that's not all. He was to expand his ...

 Zeca, Immediately Back into The Ethniki Best XI? By Christian Leggas There's no doubt I speak for at least the vast majority of Ethniki supporters when I say what a joy it was to see Zeca return to playing football after ten months on the sidelines recovering from a ruptured cruciate ligament injury.  Though if he were to string consistent starts together from now until the competitive fixtures in September, will it be enough for Gus Poyet to slot him straight into the starting line-up? Let's see who the likely competition is for a place in that suddenly-solid midfield trio. Andreas Bouchalakis The Olympiacos captain may warrant some justified criticism with a loose pass or lack of pace here and there. However, his wealth of experience is something that is something so crucial, not to mention his accomplished performance last time out against Kosovo. Dimitris Kourbelis Panathinaikos' captain has done what Zeca will no doubt be attempting to emulate and deserved all the E...