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 Founding year: 1925
Neighborhood: Piraeus
Colors: Red and white
Nickname: "Thrilos" (The Legend)
Website: www.olympiacos.org
Trophies: Nine Greek championships (1949, 1960, 1976, 1978, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997), seven Greek Cups (1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1994, 1997, 2002), one Euroleague title (1997)
Legends: In the early years, the idol was Alekos Spanoudakis, who got to play in Italy as well. The magnificent 1970s team was dominated by legendary Greek-Americans Steve Yantzoglou and Giorgos Kastrinakis, who also played for the national team. And the '90s empire of five straight domestic titles was coached first by Yannis Ioannidis and then by Dusan Ivkovic, and featured Greek players like Panayotis Fassoulas (current mayor of Piraeus), Giorgos Sigalas, Argyris Kambouris (hero of the Greek national team's European title in 1987) as well as non-Greeks such as Zarko Paspalj, Walter Berry, Roy Tarpley, Eddie Johnson, Alexander Volkov, David Rivers, Dragan Tarlac, Milan Tomic, etc.
 Home court: Peace and Friendship Stadium (capacity: 14,000)
Famous fans chants: "My great love, my great Olympiacos" (from the club's anthem), "I love my Legend and follow it everywhere, I will never leave it alone", "We wish we had a hookah, to smoke it and see everything red-and-white striped!"
Arch-rivals: Panathinaikos
Fact file:Olympiacos has reached the Euroleague Final Four four times, winning the title in 1997 and losing twice in the final (to Joventut Badalona in 1994 and Real Madrid in 1995) and once in the semis (to eventual winners Zalgiris Kaunas in 1999)... The Reds won both 1994 and 1995 semifinals against "eternal rivals" Panathinaikos but maybe gave everything they had in those games and had no stamina in the finals... The team is currently coached by two-time European champion Pini Gershon and has reigning European champion internationals Sophocles Schortsianitis, Panayotis Vassilopoulos and Yannis Bouroussis.
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Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Euroleague.net
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