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OLYMPIAKOS

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Category:	Sports and Recreations
Created:	Aug 17, 2006
Type:	Public
Members:	1329
Owner:	Kostas
Language:	Greek
Country:	Greece

Olympiakos CFP, is a large and the most popular Greek multi-sport club based in Piraeus-Athens, Greece.

The club is parent to 17 different competitive departments including football (Olympiakos F.C.), basketball (Olympiakos B.C.), volleyball (Olympiakos S.C.), water polo (Olympiakos Water Polo Club), athletics and swimming, amongst others, which have won numerous domestic and European titles over the club's history. Olympiakos has the record of winning the treble in two different team sports (basketball and water polo) while Olympiaos has won a Balkans Cup in football. In addition to this, in the total number of Olympiackos' athletes, Olympic winners and World Champions are included.

Olympiakos CFP was founded on March 10, 1925, as a football club initially, when the members of the "Piraeus Football Club" and the "Piraeus Fan Club" decided, during a historical assembly, to dissolve the two clubs in order to establish a new unified one football club, with the young Olympic games winner boy as their emblem. Notis Kamberos announced the name Olympiakos and Michalis Manouskos completed it to its full name, Olympiakos Club of Fans of Piraeus. The Andrianopoulos brothers, however, were those who significantly raised the reputation of the club and added glory to it. Children of a prosperous family, they made the name of Olympiakos known over Greece. Yiannis, Dinos, Giorgos, and Vassilis were the first to play. Leonidas made his appearance later on, and played for a short time. The club's offensive line, made up of the five brothers, soon became legendary and, hence, Olympiakos is also known as Thrylos (Legend), after this classic side of the 1930s which won a hatful of titles.