Hellenic United AC | Chicago, IL

Hellenic United Athletic Club is pleased to announce that Mr. Minos Vlamakis has joined its soccer family and welcomes him as the Club's Major Division team head coach. His expertise, varied experiences, and passion for the game are without a doubt a perfect match to HUAC's vision and mission.
 
Minos Vlamakis is in his third season on staff with the UIC Flames this fall after being an integral part of the two most successful seasons in the team's history in 2007 and 2008. The 28-year old Elmwood Park native has spent the last two seasons monitoring everything from team training, administrative duties and exclusive work with the team's youngest players as they transition from high school to Division I college soccer.  In fact, several of these players have already made key contributions to the UIC Men's soccer team, helping the rest of the roster win the 2007 Horizon League tournament and the 2008 Horizon League regular-season championship while earing two trips to the NCAA Tournament.
 
Prior to joining UIC, Vlamakis was an Assistant Coach at Oakton College for two years, helping guide the Raiders to two straight NJCAA Regional Finals as well as developing two NSCAA adidas All-Americans, four NSCAA adidas All-Region players and two Skyway Conference MVPs.

Villa Park, Illinois - Team Hellas (sponsored and coached by Hellenic United Athletic Club) lost to Poland in National Soccer League Cup of Nations semi final indoor action Friday night at the Odeum. Hellas goalie, Demetri Meletis, won tournament honors as “Top Keeper” allowing a tournament low of 2 goals while posting a 0.67 goals against average and stopping a penalty (pics & video at the end of article).

This is the first Hellas team to participate in the tournament open division in over 10 years.  Hellas went into their first game against an experienced Croatia side only 20 minutes after first meeting each other.  The Hellas roster was comprised of various Greek players sprinkled among the National and Metro leagues.  Despite a high work rate and good individual efforts from the midfield, especially Jaime Kriticos, Hellas was unable to find the back of the Croatia net and went into half time even.  In the second half, Hellas forwards from themselves one on one with the Croatia keeper no less than 3 times, only to be stymied by a highly skilled keeper.

Hellenic United's newly created Over-30 "B" team finished their first ever indoor session on December 28, 2010.

The goals for the team were:

1. To come-together as a group and learn each other's strengths and weaknesses, as well as decide which players will form our Over-30 "B" outdoor season team.
2. To have fun playing soccer.
3. To finish at least with a 50-50 record.

Coach Mario Mamalis commented the following on his team's first session: