| 15/1/2024 | Veteran football player and legend of Olympiacos, Giorgos Darivas, dies at the age of 97. He was born and raised in Athens and started playing football in the last years of the occupation in Niki Plakas. He moved to Olympiacos in 1946, where he played until 1958. Doxa Piraeus was the next stop and the last of his career, where after one year, in 1959, he hung up his shoes. He played for the Greek national team 16 times, scoring four goals in four years 1951-1955, while after a match between Greece and Turkey he was given the nickname "Lorenzo".
After retiring from action, he continued to be active in football as a coach in the youth academies of Olympiakos, while also working as a coach in the first team in 1971 and 1975. He was also the president of the Olympiakos veteran footballers' association. He worked as a coach for several clubs, such as Kadmos Thebes and Ethnikos Asteras, whom he led for the first time from the local to the second Division in 1962-63 and 1964-65 respectively. In the 1980-81 season, he led Panegialios to the semi-finals of the Greek Cup. He also worked, among others, at Fostiras, Vyzas Megaron, A.O. Chalkida, Illisiakos, Atromitos Athens, Apollon Kalamaria, A.O. Trikala etc. |
| 15/1/2023 | Nikos Mavrommatis wins the gold medal in the skeet event with 38/40 shots at the Shooting World Cup in Rabat. The 42-year-old had already won two silver medals (Beijing 2011, Baku 2022) and a bronze (Lonato 2022). The silver medal was won by the Egyptian Azmi Mehelba with 37/40 shots and the bronze by the Italian Valerio Palmucci with 27/40. In the same competition, Emmanouela Katzouraki wins the silver medal, missing the gold from US Kimberly Rhodes by one target. |
| 15/1/2022 | Robert Lewandowski scores his 300th Bundesliga goal as Bayern Munich nets for a record-breaking 66th consecutive league game to beat Koln (0-4). Lewandowski becomes the first player to do so since Bayern great Gerd Muller in 1976. |
| 15/1/2001 | Hungarian hammer champion Jozsef Csermak dies aged 69. He threw 60.34m to win the gold medal at the Helsinki Olympics (1952) becoming the first to throw over 60m in the history of the event |
| 15/1/2000 | Corinthians win the first World Club Championship after defeating Vasco da Gama 4-3 on penalty kicks at Maracana. Although Romario and Anelka are top scorers of the touranment, the MVP prize goes to Edilson |
| 15/1/2000 | Perugia goalkeeper Angelo Pagoto is banned ''indefinitely'' from the italian liga when he is proven a cocaine addict |
| 15/1/1996 | PSAT awards for ''Best Athletes of 1995'', for the first time in the presence of Kostis Stefanopoulos, president of the Hellenic republic. Pyrros Dimas becomes the first athlete after Nikos Galis to be elected three times ''Athlete of The Year'' (1992, 1993). Katerina Thanou, the national junior basketball team and Kyriakos Giannopoulos (captain of the national water polo team) receive awards |
| 15/1/1993 | American movie “Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors” is released. It is narrated by John Malkovic and is based on the story of the Uruguayan rugby team who were involved in the crash of UAF Flight 571, which crashed into the Andes mountains on October 13th, 1972. |
| 15/1/1992 | The first internet chess server ICS programmed by Michael Moore and Richard Nash is launched. Players log in by “telnet” (a network protocol used to provide bidirectional communication developed in 1969) and the board is displayed as ASCII text. Bugs in the server software will allow illegal moves, false checkmates, etc, but gradually features will be added, such ELO ratings and a choice of graphical interfaces. |
| 15/1/1989 | Brazil beat Holland 2-1 for the world title in soccer 5x5 |
| 15/1/1985 | 15-year-old Stacey Hillard becomes the first woman to mark a century break in snooker (114 points) |
| 15/1/1967 | The Super Bowl is played for the first time, as the Green Bay Packers of the NFL defeat the Kansas City Chiefs of the AFL by 35-10. It is the match between the champions of NFL (National Football League), founded in 1920 and AFL (American Football League), founded in 1960. Three years later, in 1970, AFL will be merged with NFL and the Super Bowl will become NFL’s championship game. Over the years, it will become the most watched US television broadcast of the year and a de facto national holiday. Moreover, the Super Bowl Sunday will become the second largest US food consumption day following Thanksgiving. |
| 15/1/1950 | Fiorentina ties 0-0 with Juventus for the Italian football championship and Juventus defender, Carlo Parola, performs one of the most spectacular “bicycle kicks” of the Italian football to repel the ball from their area. This movement will become the official logo of "Calciatori", the football collection stickers of Panini, and will first appear on the album cover and bags during the 1965-66 season. The "bicycle kick of Parola" created by Wainer Vaccari, will published in more than 200 million copies with captions in Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic and Japanese. |
| 15/1/1939 | First NFL Pro Bowl, the NY Giants beat All Stars 13-10 at Wringley Park |
| 15/1/1927 | BBC's first broadcast of a rugby game, England - Wales (first international rugby match) |
| 15/1/1892 | Basketball rules, formulated by James Naismith, are issued for the first time in ''Triangle'' newspaper in Springfield, Massachusetts |
