MELBOURNE has won the bidding war with Sydney to stage the Socceroos' World Cup farewell match – a friendly with Greece on May 25.

Bleak City's massive Greek community – that is still celebrating Marcos Baghdatis' appearance in the Australian Open final – will be out in force again with MCG events chief Trevor Dohnt anticipating an 80,000 crowd for the game.

But the MCG – scene of World Cup despair against Iran in 1997 and the failed qualification bid against Uruguay in 2001 – won't know until later this week whether it will be chosen ahead of the 50,000-capacity Telstra Dome.

The southern metropolis won out after Football Federation Australia was seduced by the Greek factor, denying Sydney's Telstra Stadium – venue of November's World Cup playoff win over Uruguay – another view of the Socceroos.

Dohnt said: "We are the number one venue bidding – and after what you've seen at the tennis over the last fortnight it's obvious the Greek population will come out in numbers.


"We have a capacity of 100,000 – and it wouldn't surprise me if we got upwards of 80,000 for the match."

The Socceroos will continue their World Cup preparations with a friendly against Holland in Rotterdam on June 4. They have pencilled in a final warm-up against a yet-to-be-revealed non-qualifier in Europe three days later.

Im goin.....im coming from sydney.

i might be there too fingers crossed

HiNrg and **Soccer Chick** let's try and have a mini Greek Planet get together anyone else?

lols sure we will make a big banner that says...

ELLAS SAGAPO APO TO GREEKPLANET lmao


and then on the bottom it will say SEITARIDIS exw prika me agaph soccer chick lol

This is great news for Melbourne. I can't wait for this game.

ARE YOU SERIOUS... im going... when do tickets go out on sale... i cant miss it....


we should have a gp meet and show off our hellenic pride world wide

we need a GREEK PLANET ANTHEM lol

i cant wait it is the day before i turn 18 i will be in another state for my 18thhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh woooooooooooooooohhhhhhhooooooooooooooooooooooooo

i want to go to the club that was in the wog boy lmaooooo

thats awesome, i hope my dad gets tickets, if not ill be at lonsdale they'll have big screens for sure.

The club that was in wog boy is Chasers. It's in Chapel Street

ohh spanks sennitsaa mou

I'M BUYING A TENT AND I'M CAMPING. NOT OUT IN THE BUSH BUT OUTSIDE THE TICKET OFFICE!!!

This is great news thanks Ajax for putting up that information. I will be going to the game for sure i will not be going to work the day the tickets go on sale because i will need to secure tickets. fuck i can't wait.

Excellent news Excellent

Can't wait for this game! I am so happy that it's in MElbourne it needs to be in Melbourne.

LOL back in the day that club rocked


Look forward to seeing a big Hellenic turnout for that game, the atmosphere will me awesome

it should be awesome... i think it will be a great feeling being in the centre of it all!

BUT and people i say this with all seriousness.. feel sorry for me... i live in the upper most part of australia n i will have to travel further then anyone to be at that game!!! so as soon as there is word on tickets PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE post it up, were i can buy them and i dont care how much they are i just want to know when they start selling... or else this chicky will be watching it on sbs on my lazy boy..



spanks peeps

Anyone got a tent for sale? Sleeping bag required to. I want a tent so i can go camping outside the ticket office for the Greece v Australia match.lol

The greece game on May 25 is 4 days after Zambidis fight in Melbourne. It is great timing, looks like a week in Melbourne two huge events.

I have spoken to some greeks who plan to go for Australia over Greece. Where r their loyalties? 400 years of turkish occupation didn't convert the greeks to turks, but 1 generation out here and there's greeks going for Australia over Greece. Disgraceful.

POULIMENI

i'm going to see it... :shades:

okkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

JJ the leoforio driver will be organsing a bus down.

i need numbers of ppl who will be interested in driving down.

ITS BEEN CONFIRMED

MAY 25TH AT THE MCG, GREECE V AUSTRALIA

START MAKING ARRANGEMENTS

Yeah JJ just saw it on the tv.

For sure there will be way more Greek fans: ) It will be chaos it will be a war

i cannot wait. it will be an awesome game.

Hey JJ,
You should have someone else driving the Greek Planet Bus to Melbourne.
The Australia v Greece match is on your Birthday.
Mate you should be at the back of the bus drinking & giving people the brown-eye. One butt cheek blue & the other one white yia tin Elada.

yeh i was at work and read it over some guys shoulder as i was giving him coffee lol..left work told day and dad goes tickets are on sale in march or april, tickets will be starting from $40 according to The Herald Sun.

Tellia, remeber the bus ride to Newcastle with Andrea, and the infamous line "newcastle town, we are gona burn you downnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn"

On the Evening of May 25 the Streets of Melbourne will be ours, it will be greeks going nuts! Drums horns flares colour noise crackers u name it.

Greeks r Known for Hostile atmosphere's. This game will be no different, there will be tension. It will be awesome. The noise the Greeks will make in the MCG will be unreal. The colour the chants everything, it will be nuts. Greeks will be going nuts left right and centre days before the game it will be crazy cos we'll be all hyped up.

All that the Aussies have is Yellow t-shirts and that annoying chant Aussie Aussie Aussie, oi oi oi. They will be all interested in this game because it is the farewell game before their world cup campaign plus they will have a full strength team. All those dickheads who stopped George Street and Federation square in Melbourne to celebrate Australias world cup success, we will fucken silence those mother fuckers!!! It will be the Greeks celebrating in the streets and we will make the aussies celebrations of making the world cup look boring.

This game has the potential to be crazy. We will show the aussies what fucking Fanatic fans we r. This is Olympiakos, Panathinaikos, AEK, PAOK, everyone all rolled into one.

There is not doubt that there will be more greeks than Aussies. whole sections of the stadium we will own and if any security try stop the greekplanet army for having fun they can expect a full scale riot cos we will fight back. This is a greece home game not an Aussie home game they will have to go by our Rules not their paranoid aussie rules.

well said greekprince very well said.

Ok I'm really looking forward to this!!!

I AM SO EXCITED AND I JUST CANT HIDE IT I AM ABOUT TO LOOSE CONTROL AND I THINK I LIKE IT ok dont know the rest of the fuken song lol

but i cant wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 omg omg omggggggggggggggggggg i am going to see my homeland kick ass here and then OMG I TURN 18 IN MELBOURNEEEEEEEEEE WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO


GOOOOOO ELLLLLLLLLLLLAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Yeah i'm so excitied to that i booked my airfare tickets to melbourne today.lol

ok,got the quote , and here it is



if we get 50 ppl, it will cost approx $120.00 each return.

Stay tuned for an email with more details

I am flying up but 120 return is a good deal by bus.

We will need to look into organising a block of tickets for Greekplanet members so we are all seated (I mean standing fuck sitting.hehe) in the one section. The hooligan misfit section.hehe

haha ohhhh wow hmmmm i cant wait to be there oooo i already know what i am wearing lmaooo

hey prince can my baba sit in the hooligan section lol

Of course he can.lol

Yes i dunno what to wear either. I was thinking a top 'Iron Chef Greece' Top. But now i am thinking of wearing no top at all. Ok don't wanna scare everyone so maybe i wear a top.lol maybe i wear a top then ditch the top during the match.lol

All those passionate Aussie fans who will be there at the Australia match, most of whom will be wogs in Aussie tops, GO TO HELL!!!

I'm going %100. Can't wait.

w0rd to that!!

i booked my airfare and accomm... just waiting for tix to be released so i can purchase that...

qantas is offering cheap flights for early bird booking like 90 one way...

i know what im wearing and ill be a proud greek wearing it lol

I just went to all the sites opened up different pages and searched all of them and virgin blue was the cheapest i found. One or two may have been cheaper but had hidden taxes.

I got my ticket for 142 bucks return with virgin blue. They have sale fares which will sell out fast. Some of the Qantas fares have already sold but they must have been pre-booked for corporate.

I guarantee that a month before the game flights will be like 200 bucks one way.

Haven't got my accomidation booked will worry about that later on.lol

You already know what you're wearing? Well done.hehe

you got your air flight tix cheap... i saw cheap air fares too but as you said they had hidden catches and taxes...

apparently virgin, is the best flight trip to melb compared to qantas.. many i know have flew virgin and have no complaints...

dont go jet star.. even though their cheap airfares the airport is far and teh money you will be saving on the airfare will go tawards to cab charge ...

yes i agree with you, about a month before perhaps even earlier, maybe when venue tix go on sale they will increase accom rates

(some accom places may feel suspicious why so many wanna go 2 melb all of a sudden)

it would be a great idea, if the greek planet supporters were all in one mob in the one area... can tix be purchased so were all together??!!

lets not forget that this will be broadcasted in greece and possible other parts of the world therefore, yaiyia and pa pou and thea will be watching you .. so wear your gear and show them:

*GREEK PRIDE WORLD WIDE!!*

one word to sum up that night.. KAOS!!!

hopefully we can all meet up and have a chat coffee, prior or after the game...

we are already preparing for this.. ita gna be kaos...

you got that right champ!!

KAOS nothing but KAOS...... probably party through to the weekend

if you think the baghdatis matches were KAOS this is gunna be big!!

wether greece wins or loses...its gunna be KAOS!!

I see you in melb ... we have coffee after the game

KAOS!!

How can I forget JJ. He was in the seat in front of us & we needed an umbrella that day. It was like it was raining inside the bus.
Andrea actually came to that Community Ethnic Cup Tournament I played in at the end of last year.
As you know I was playing for AEK Sydney & he was givin it to me from the sideline when he saw me a Olympiakos fan wearing a AEK jersey.

It will be Kaos for sure

Virgin blue and Qantas flights to melbourne that week will resemble olympic airways. Allow smoking on the flights.lol

The Aussies will not know what the fucks going on.

Yes we will organise block tickets to the game. I don't want to sit 50 meters in the vicinity of an aussie or one of those blow up Kangaroos.lol

block tickets would be awesome, count me and my baba as maybes. depending on the price of the tickets. being a teenager with no job is excpensive lol money runs out fast.

anyways i wonder if its going to be on tv that night cos if it is all the aussies will stay home. they wouldnt even turn up.

haha good question, im pretty sure it will be on tv.

ive got some good news.. The Greek Commentator who did the Euro 2004, might be coming to australia..

Ma cuzins fiancee, thats his uncle so his coming down to australia down for da wddding.. were pressuring to do the commentating at the MCG this march 25th..if it does go ahead il have 3 box seats available

But i dunno, i would prefer to be int he crowd, screaming ma lungs out!!!1

GREEK SHOUT: "ELLADA PATRIDA, AFSTRALIA MALAKIA!!! """ HEHEHEE

"E E E O O O Irthame na fayoume ligo kangaroo".

Fuck the box seats. box seats r for the snobby elite. we r just soldiers front line not behind some re-inforced glass screen.

It's a war Greece v Australia!

prince u sed it we have to be outside with the sea of BLUE and WHITE!!!!

my dad is terrified that me and my sister are going to get trampled lol he sed if we were ever in greece he would never take me to watch olympiakos play stadium full of andres and me this short shit in the middle haahaha
anyways i cant wait its going to hektik and something i will never ever ever forget

lmao@ irthame na fame kangaroo haha good change from provata

lmao dude im shorter then ya just wait for Greece and aus to play lol..... JJ your tall can u hold me up???

EEE OOO, pame stin melbourni gia na fame Kangouro

OOOOO EEEEEEEEEEEEE OOOOOO EEEEEEEE ΘΑ ΦΑΜΕ ΚΑΝΓΑΡΟΟ ΣΤΗΝ ΣΟΥΒΛΑ ΟΟΟΟ ΕΕΕΕΕ ΟΟΟΟ ΕΕΕΕΕ