Faroe Islands

It's difficult to talk about Leicester City's remarkable season without slipping into cliché. So much is being written about our little unfashionable club that it is hard to find original words. For me it's also difficult to write objectively about the subject.

By George Georgakopoulos

The national soccer team should be rather happy for avoiding defeat in Tuesday?s friendly against host Poland, just three days after its disgraceful 2-1 loss at the Faroe Islands.

 National team goes down 2-1 to lose all hopes of making Euro 2016

By George Georgakopoulos

The Greek national soccer team suffered another evening of shame at the hands of the Faroe Islands, losing this time 2-1 away, seven months after its 1-0 loss at home in November. These results have now sealed Greece?s elimination from the finals of Euro 2016.

The Greek soccer federation on Friday insisted that international defender Jose Holebas had been dropped from team training in Austria because of injury and not for any other reason.

Media reports out of Italy said that the 30-year-old player had trained normally with his Roma squad after departing from Austria on Tuesday.

The first solar eclipse of the year can be seen across Bulgaria on March 20. However, observers in both Bulgaria and other European countries will only see a partial view of the event.

All eyes will be on the skies March 20 for a total solar eclipse expected to offer spectacular views, if only in the far northern Svalbard archipelago and Faroe Islands.
      
A partial eclipse of varying degrees should also be visible, weather permitting, across most of Europe, northern Africa, central Asia and the Middle East.
      

BELGRADE - The Nordic model of cooperation is achievable in the Balkans under the umbrella of the European Union, says former Norwegian minister and diplomat Thorvald Stoltenberg.

In an interview published on the official website of Norway in Serbia, Stoltenberg, 84, said that EU membership of Balkan countries would increase economic stability in the region.

"In the historic Land of Maramures, the hills are alive with ways long forgotten elsewhere in Europe," says the latest issue of US-based travel magazine National Geographic Traveler.

Greece named youth coach Costas Tsanas as interim coach of the senior national team on Sunday but there was no official confirmation yet of the sacking of Italian Claudio Ranieri.

The country's soccer federation (EPO) has effectively suspended Ranieri for the time being as both sides work out the financial settlement surrounding his 1.6 million-euro contract.