Panathinaikos won its first volleyball trophy in exactly 10 years on Wednesday after beating Olympiakos in the League Cup final by the narrowest of margins.
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The Greek men’s national volleyball team has returned to Athens from Slovenia as it left the 2019 EuroVolley tournament with a 3-0 loss to Russia on Saturday in Ljubljana.
The men’s national volleyball team secured the most unlikely of qualifications to the knockout stages of the European Championship on Wednesday, earning the ticket to the last 16 of the tournament having conceded just one point less than Portugal.
The men’s national volleyball team did well to reach the final of the Silver European League, successfully graduating from the group stage, but fell short of snatching promotion to the Golden European League.
Olympiakos has swept Cup winner PAOK in the men’s Volley League final series to claim its second in a row and 29th overall championship crown on Thursday.
Champion PAOK added another volleyball trophy to its collection on Saturday as it won the Greek Cup beating Iraklis in the final held on Crete.
The Greek national volleyball teams made quite an impact at the Mediterranean Games in Tarragona, Spain, as the women’s team finished second while the men were third.
Olympiakos has won the Greek men’s league unbeaten, placing volleyball next to water polo as the Piraeus club’s most successful divisions for the season.
Panathinaikos is close to changing hands after the meeting that the representative of the Pan Asia Investments fund, Pairoj Piempongsant, had on Saturday with club owner Yiannis Alafouzos.
Thai entrepreneur Pairoj Piempongsant landed in Athens on Friday evening to broker a deal for the takeover of Panathinaikos by the Pan Asia fund with owner Yiannis Alafouzos.
Champion PAOK earned its second ever Greek Cup in men’s volleyball as after beating holder Olympiakos in a thrilling semifinal on Friday it downed crosstown rival Iraklis in Saturday’s final on Rhodes.
Dressed in blue, Greek women’s volleyball champion Olympiakos triumphed 3-1 at Bursa on Wednesday to overturn its 3-2 home loss and lift the CEV Challenge Cup, Europe’s third-tier club competition.
AEK has qualified to the Final Four of the Basketball Champions League after getting an 83-83 result at Strasbourg on Wednesday night to win their quarterfinal tie by nine points on aggregate.
Olympiakos will have a twin presence in the finals of the CEV Challenge Cup, Europe's third-tier club competition, as both its men’s and its women’s team advanced from Wednesday’s semifinals.
Two goals by Marko Livaja and one from Tasos Bakasetas gave AEK a comfortable 3-0 home win over bottom club Platanias on Monday, sending the Yellows alone on top of the Super League, one point ahead of Olympiakos.
PAOK defeated struggling Asteras Tripolis 2-0 on Monday, thanks to a Mauricio brace, to bounce back to the second spot of the Super League table.
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