Greek ATHLOS

TZAG · Post by **TZAG** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 1:36 am

What a wonderful sport football is! Greece won the European Championship in one of the biggest upsets in international soccer history, beating host Portugal 1-0 in the final Sunday on Angelos Charisteas' 57th-minute header off a corner. The Greeks had never won a game at a major tournament before arriving at Euro 2004 but wound up twice beating the Portuguese, ousting defending champion France 1-0 in the quarterfinal and then beating hot favorite Czech Republic 1-0 in the semis. In European soccer terms, the Greek surprise -- 100-1 shots before the championship -- even eclipsed Denmark's triumph in 1992. No team in a World Cup or previous European Championships have done what Greece have done here.
In other words...greek ATHLOS!!

Dan · Post by **Dan** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 10:02 am

An upset is right, but they really deserved it... to win the competition you have to beat the best (czechs imo), and they did just that.

gsp · Post by **gsp** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 11:51 am

GREECE - OLE,OLE,OLE!!!! GREECE!! CHAMPIONSHIPS!

carl · Post by **carl** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 8:03 pm

Έλλασ!

johnb · Post by **johnb** » Fri Jul 09, 2004 10:50 pm

I heared this on the radio today. They were discussing the problems that Behcam had with the ball an apparently the Portugese manager had complained that his team could have played better if there hadn't been grease all over the pitch ;-)

J.

Mr_AWOL · Post by **Mr_AWOL** » Sun Jul 11, 2004 10:59 am

I was cheering greece all the way, appart from the czech rep game where i thought they dived & cheated a lot. Am popping over to greece to see frinds soon so they will have to put up with celebrating all over again.

Took a bottle of ouzo down the pub on final night and lined shots along the bar for all