Club History
The five-man Andrianopoulos brothers founded Olympiacos CFP in 1925, composing the forward line which would dominate the fledgling Greek championship in the 1930s. All would move into local and national politics, their influence helping promote the club and organize the funding and construction of their home stadium Karaiskaki in the 1950s, another period of lengthy domestic success for the red-and-whites. A relatively lean period in the 1960s was reversed by ambitious club president Nikos Goulandris, who bought star names to knock Panathinaikos FC off their perch in 1973, the...
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