By Sam Callagher
January 3rd 2010 @ 1:37am
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Stelios to play for Sydney Olympic FC?
The latest hot rumour coming out of Belmore Sports Ground is that Stelios Giannakopoulos, the former Bolton Wanderers and Olympiakos legend, is on the verge of singing a seven game guest stint for Sydney Olympic FC.
With Sydney Olympic looking to bring the buzz back to the club, this move would be ideal to bring their old supporters through the gate once again to recapture the wonderful passion that flowed through the club for the last 52 years.
Stelios, now 34 and being re-leased from Larissa FC in the Greek Superleague, is rumoured to be excited to be playing for one of the biggest club’s in Australian football.
Sydney Olympic’s first game of the season is on the 28th February at Belmore Sports Ground with a 6pm kick off.
The club is expecting a crowd of around the 5,000 mark, and with the signing of Stelios, maybe a 10,000 crowd could be on the cards.
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Spezza said | January 3rd 2010 @ 9:10am | Report comment
THIS WOULD BE MASSIVE
Al said | January 3rd 2010 @ 10:40am | Report comment
Surely an A-League club should be looking to sign someone of his calibre.
Phoenix said | January 3rd 2010 @ 10:46am | Report comment
Hellas won the 2004 European Championships. This took place before the birth of the A League. Therefore the A League does not recognise the Hellas win as the FFA / A League do not acknowledge football history prior to 2005.
Al said | January 3rd 2010 @ 2:49pm | Report comment
The formation of a taskforce to establish a new league commenced in October 2003 and the A-League was born four months later (that would be early 2004). Euro 2004 was held in June/July of that year, ie: after the formation of the A-League’s framework. What exact relevance this has to Giannakopoulos as a potential A-League target is still a mystery.
There is no going back to ethnic based clubs at the highest level of Australian football, despite the protestations of the few harping back to the bad old days and of the zealots at SBS.
Alex Poulos said | January 3rd 2010 @ 11:48am | Report comment
He only would wana come for Olympic why else would he come to Australia, lets get serious, if you dont understand what im talking about ask Ian Rush
PeaKeR said | January 3rd 2010 @ 4:48pm | Report comment
“The club is expecting a crowd of around the 5,000 mark, and with the signing of Stelios, maybe a 10,000 crowd could be on the cards. ”
Hahahahahhahhahahhahahha has made my day
Syd olympic is dead and buried A-league the future of Australian football
Daniel King said | January 3rd 2010 @ 8:21pm | Report comment
What a propoganda article. Yet another excuse for bitter NSL chaps to belittle the a-league. We get it, you don’t like the a-league….. so what!
PeaKeR said | January 3rd 2010 @ 9:00pm | Report comment
Syd Olympic as a club is not who they used to be
they died when the nsl died . We all need to forget the
past and move on we all need to support the a-league for
the good of the game here in Australia
Rob said | January 3rd 2010 @ 10:19pm | Report comment
Stelios who?…has anyone outside of the Greek community actually heard of this guy?
James said | January 4th 2010 @ 8:00am | Report comment
Yes they have
Gibbo said | January 4th 2010 @ 8:18am | Report comment
yeah he is pretty good. would be surprised if this article is anything more than a beat up though.
Savvas Tzionis said | January 4th 2010 @ 10:44am | Report comment
The Roar has sunk to a new low with this article.
The writer is using a fake name (he is obviously Greek) and his mates are all contributing stupid comments.
You are all an embarrassment.
Con Smith said | January 5th 2010 @ 9:13am | Report comment
Death to Sydney Fc
If you want the world cup as we all do we need a b league
Daniel King said | January 9th 2010 @ 8:23am | Report comment
@ Con
Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooring.