Messinia Football Clubs Association
The Messinia Football Clubs Association is part of the Greek Football Federation that includes football (soccer) teams in the Messenia regional unit. History Its first attempt to run their own football (soccer) union in Messinia happened with the running of the council in Kalamanta. In 1929, the Patras FCA asked from the Greek Football Federation not to try to run their own union as it was known that the association was part of the union.'' Evdomas Patras''From the electronic library at the Patras Press Museum Information sources The MFCA which is headquartered in Kalamata, the prefectural capital and the power of including of over 70 football (soccer) clubs. Basic organizations of the MFCA is the local football (soccer) championships in three divisions and the Messinia Cup in which features teams in prefectural divisions and the association-member of the MFCA enters the fourth division and its artistic honors of the prefectural association of the highest divisions, the fir ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Hellenic Football Federation
The Hellenic Football Federation (HFF), also known as the Greek Football Federation ( el, Ελληνική Ποδοσφαιρική Ομοσπονδία; ΕΠΟ, translit=Ellinikí Podosferikí Omospondía; EPO) is the governing body of association football, football in Greece. It contributes in the organisation of Superleague Greece and organizes the Greek Football Cup, Greek Cup and the Greece national football team, Greece national team. It is based in Athens. History The Hellenic Football Federation (HFF) was founded on 14 November 1926 by a decision of the three major Unions of the country: Athens, Piraeus and Thessalonica. Its foundation marked the organization of Greek football in compliance with international standards. Since then, the HFF has grown into the biggest sports federation in Greece, as football in the country is regarded as the "king of sports" coming first in the preferences of sports fans. The HFF is considered a private legal entity and a non-profit organ ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Apollon Kalamata
Apollon Kalamata ( el, Απόλλων Καλαμάτας) is a football (soccer) club in Kalamata, Greece. It currently plays in the Messenia(n) First Division. History The club was founded in 1927. Its colors are white and black and its emblem is a plant. During the prewar period, the players was raised mainly in the royalist part of the population. Along with Prassina Poulia made its important football (soccer) teams in Kalamata. Apollon had distinctly many players. After the war, it took part many times in the prefectural championships and took part in their first championship in the Second Division in 1959 and 1960. In 1967, the dictatorship dissolved temporarily the team and united with two other clubs of the city: Prasina Poulia and Olympiakos to create Kalamata FC. Apollon was refounded in 1974 and returned to its original position. It began from the last part of the prefectural soccer. It quickly elevated to the categories and in the 1975-76 season, it return ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Prasina Poulia Kalamata
Prassina Poulia Football Athletic Club ( el, Ποδοσφαιρικός Αθλητικός Όμιλος "Πράσινα Πουλιά") is one of the oldest football clubs in Kalamata, Greece, being founded in 1938. Its colors are green and white and its name literally means "green birds". History The team was founded during the interwar period as well as Apollon and had its famous football (soccer) clubs of the city. Prassina Poulia had followed mainly between the support of the Venizelian line up and the support of many refugees. From Prassina Poulis began the career in which afterwards the famous player of AEK and the national team Kleanthis Maropoulos. He played for two years in 1931 and 1933 and settled with the family in Athens. From Prassina Poulia played its Messenian football (soccer) until the 1960s. In 1960-61 season Prassina Poulia participated in the B' National Greek Division. The dictatorship in 1967 dissolved the teams along with Apollon and Olympiakos and found ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Asprochoma, Messenia
Asprochoma ( el, Ασπρόχωμα, "white soil") is a village in Messenia, Greece. It is part of the municipality Kalamata Kalamáta ( el, Καλαμάτα ) is the second most populous city of the Peloponnese peninsula, after Patras, in southern Greece and the largest city of the homonymous administrative region. As the capital and chief port of the Messenia reg .... {{coord, 37, 02, 52, N, 22, 04, 29, E, display=title, region:GR_type:city_source:GNS-enwiki Populated places in Messenia ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Foinikounta
Foinikounta or Finikounda or Finikounta or Finikous ( el, Φοινικούντα, before 1930: Ταβέρνα - ''Taverna'') is a seaside village and a community in the municipal unit of Pylos-Nestor, Messenia, Greece. It is situated in the southwestern tip of the Peloponnese peninsula, 9 km east of Methoni and 37 km southwest of Kalamata. It is most notable for its beautiful beaches which attract mostly Greek and other European visitors during the summer months. It has a small port. The community consists of the main village Foinikounta, the small villages Anemomylos, Chounakia, Grizokampos and Loutsa, and the island of Schiza. Population History It is believed to have been founded by the Phoenicians. The ancient town Phoenicus (Φοινικούς) was mentioned by Pausanias as a port west of Cape Akritas.Pausanias ''Description of Greece'' 4.34.12 It is believed that it was a small commercial port where the fishers of ''murex trunculus'' (a sea snail from which a kn ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Avia, Greece
Avia ( el, Αβία, grc, ἡ Ἀβία) is a village and a former municipality in Messenia, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality West Mani, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 179.828 km2. In 2011 its population was 281 for the village, 611 for the community and 2,246 for the municipal unit. The seat of the municipality was in Kampos. Avia is a popular tourist destination. It also has a large olive production. Avia is situated on the east coast of the Messenian Gulf, southeast of Kalamata, southwest of Sparta and northwest of Kardamyli. History Ancient Abia In the location where Paliochora is located today, the Homeric city of Ire (Ιρή) is supposed to have stood (''Iliad'' I 150 and I 292). The 2nd century traveller Pausanias mentioned in his ''Description of Greece'' that the city Ire was renamed Abia by Cresphontes, king of Messene, after Abia, the nursemaid of his great-grandfather H ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Doxa Kalamata
Doxa (; from verb ) Liddell, Henry George, and Robert Scott. 1940.δοκέω" In ''A Greek-English Lexicon'', edited by H. S. Jones and R. McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. – via Perseus Project. is a common belief or popular opinion. In classical rhetoric, ''doxa'' is contrasted with ''episteme'' ('knowledge'). Etymology The term ''doxa'' is an ancient Greek term () that comes from the verb ''dokein'' (), meaning 'to appear, to seem, to think, to accept'. Between the 3rd and 1st centuries BCE, the term picked up an additional meaning when the Biblical Hebrew word for 'glory' () was translated by the Septuagint as ''doxa''. This translation of the Hebrew scriptures was used by the early Church, causing the term to be frequently used in the New Testament. The term is also used in the worship services of the Greek Orthodox Church, where the glorification of God in true worship is also seen as true belief. In that context, ''doxa'' reflects behavior or practice in worship, an ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Valira, Greece
Valyra ( el, Βαλύρα pronounced ''Valira'') is a small village in southern Greece. Situated on the Peloponnese Peninsula, Valyra was the seat of the Ithomi municipality. Located near the ancient city of Messene, it lies 18 km NW of Kalamata, and about 177 km SW of Athens Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates .... References Populated places in Messenia {{Peloponnese-geo-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |