Olympiacos F.C.
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Olympiacos F.C., known simply as Olympiacos or Olympiacos Piraeus, is a Greek professional football club based in Piraeus. Part of the major multi-sport club Olympiacos CFP, their name was inspired from the ancient Olympic Games and along with the club's emblem, the laurel-crowned Olympic athlete, symbolize the Olympic ideals of ancient Greece. Their home ground is the Karaiskakis Stadium, a 33,334-capacity stadium in Piraeus.
The founders of Olympiacos (1925)
The legendary Andrianopoulos brothers: (from left) Yiannis, Dinos, Giorgos, Vassilis and Leonidas Andrianopoulos
Olympiacos line-up in 1928
Olympiacos fearsome trio of attackers during the 1930s (from left): Christoforos Raggos, Giannis Vazos, Theologos Symeonidis
Piraeus
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Piraeus is a port city within the Athens urban area, in the Attica region of Greece. It is located eight kilometres (5 mi) southwest of Athens' city centre along the east coast of the Saronic Gulf in the Athens Riviera.
Clockwise: Piraeus station, a statue of Poseidon, Mikrolimano and Piraeus Municipal Theatre
Funerary relief for a girl, flanked by her parents (330/320 BC); Archaeological Museum of Piraeus.
The Long Walls connecting the ancient city of Athens to its port of Piraeus.
Colossal statue of Hadrian of Piraeus.