Euro 2004

Privateer Puddin' · Sun 04/07/2004 21:22:43

Come on Greece! you know you want to beat 'em

Vel · Sun 04/07/2004 21:41:57

OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111111111

GREECE IS THE NEW CHAMPION!

Lazy Z · Sun 04/07/2004 21:43:12

This is real, right? I'm not sleeping or anything? It's not a joke, right? We're the winners? European champions?

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... is it? In case it is, I only have to say this:

Privateer Puddin' · Sun 04/07/2004 21:46:34

Thanks Greece for beating Portugal, that felt.. well.. good

Minimi · Sun 04/07/2004 22:06:43

I'm glad Greece won! They played like a team! Congratulations to Greece!

Privateer Puddin' · Sun 04/07/2004 22:25:42

Apparently, the guy who came on the pitch, has his own website!

http://www.jimmyjump.com/

Barcik · Mon 05/07/2004 00:04:38

Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A huge congrats to Greece! They were the best team of Euro 2004, and are worthy champions. Being slightly drunk, I will keep the serious reply for tomorrow. Anyway, WAY TO GO GREECE.

So will be done to traitros! Judas! Hijo de puta!

deltamatrix · Mon 05/07/2004 01:42:30

as an englishman, I'd like to say:

Well done greece.

Well deserved win. A pleasure to watch you in your glory.

aussie unplugged · Mon 05/07/2004 09:01:33

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So will be done to traitros! Judas! Hijo de puta!

That guy in the barÃ§a outfit was certainly not the best sport, neither a true barÃ§a fan. Breaking Portugal's pace and putting them off in the closing stages of the game was pretty poor.

BTW, congrats Greece. I do not enjoy your philosophy of the game at all, but you've certainly been the strongest side this time around.

Vel · Mon 05/07/2004 10:54:06

That guy LMAO. THe way he dived into the goal net... HAHAHAHAAHA!!1

BTW, this reminded me of a poster Levski fans hung at anfield when they played against Liverpool in england - "Varna hates CSKA" - no comment.

Barcik · Mon 05/07/2004 10:54:43

Portugal's pace? When was that?

aussie · Mon 05/07/2004 11:25:20

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Portugal's pace? When was that?

Greece was surely under pressure towards the end of the match, even if they looked safe. It was all Portugal pumping the ball into their box time after time, especially from the moment Rui Costa came onto the park.

Anyway, that's beside the point.

If that bloke running onto the fieldÃ,Â was going for Greece (because he seemed to hate Figo so much), good luck to him, he's free to support whoever he wishes.

But I think it's good to be gracious both in victory and in defeat, and he certainly wasn't.

He did nothing for the game, F.C. Barcelona or the sport altogether.

Isegrim · Mon 05/07/2004 17:03:52

Greece being European champion and Otto Rehhagel (REHAKLES!!!) their trainer is like balm for many injured German soccer-hearts

Skio · Mon 05/07/2004 21:12:31

OH MY GOD!!! GREECE IS THE CHAMPION!!! I DO NOT BELIEVE IT!!!
All I have to say is this:

Se gnorizo apo tin kopsi
tou spathiou tin tromeri
se gnorizo apo tin opsi
pou me via metraei ti gi

ap'ta kokkala vgalmeni
ton Ellinon ta iera
kai san prota andriomeni
xerai, o xerai lefteria

(The Greek National Hymn)

Spyros · Mon 05/07/2004 22:07:38

Glory to the one who hacked the Matrix program and changed the European Champion to Greece

It's also ironic that
Nikopolidis was boycotted by his team for not signing his new contract and haven't played any match in the last 3-4 months

Fyssas and Karagounis were dismissed by their team as "losers"

Dellas was dismissed by his team because he costed too much (200.000 euros!!!!!!!!)

Kapsis Zagorakis Katsouranis and Tsiartas were not being paid the last 1,5 years because their team had financial problems and probably will bankrupt.

Haristeas was given on loan to a B' category team because no team wanted him and also called by some people Ahristeas (useless)

And all those losers are now European Champions!!!!

Kapsis was the best defender in my opinion. He played against Pauleta (twice) , Gomez, Raul, Trezequet, Koller(!!!) no one of them scored and I don't remember him commited more than 3-4 fouls

SE DYO XRONIA STHN GERMANIA
FERTE MAS THN VRAZILIA

Privateer Puddin' · Mon 05/07/2004 22:41:49

My team (Portsmouth) were rumoured to be interested in Dellas before the european cup, but now, he's Â£2m and that seems to be too much for us..

Nacho · Mon 05/07/2004 22:45:32

Congrats to the greeks, I am very happy for my friend Helm! Sorry for the neighbours, but I was with Greece, I haven't personally met some of them... Pity.

Lazy Z · Mon 05/07/2004 23:44:44

24 hours later, I kinda have started to understand what has happened. And yet somehow, subconsciously, I knew we'd win. We had gone to far to lose here, to a team we had already defeated (Greek: De balate myalo... kai ta resta!). And when we won that corner, I was sure we'd score. Don't ask how, I dunno. I only knew that we'd score.

It's so funny, looking back at my first post, reading interviews of Greek players prior to the Euro, where they said that they considered the French as the favorites and that it'd be difficult for anyone to defeat them, and so many other things... Ha! Truth is indeed stranger than fiction, here's living proof!

I just saw the Team of the Tournament over at the official Euro site, and Kapsis isn't in it. I mean, wha? What more should that guy do? At least my new personal hero, Zagorakis, was the man of the tournament:

Another funny thing (to me at least

). Before the game against the French, there was this "Life of Zinedine Zidane" special on TV, and the presenters said it'd be funny if we won the Euro and then the French would make a "Life of Theo Zagorakis" special for their TV. Guess it's time for that, now.

QuoteI do not enjoy your philosophy of the game at all

QuoteIt's not the size of the dog in the fight. It's the size of the fight in the dog.

Is it just me, or is there some slight contradiction between the two sentences?

No offense aussie, just had to bring that up. ^_^

What Spyros said is true, and then some more. Rehhagel was scorned for sticking to a specific squad, not including some players who are famous by Greek standards (like Monaco's Akis Zikos and AEK's Georgatos), so most people thought we'd do really bad at the competition. Hell, even I questioned him at some point, I mean, we didn't have one true left winger in the team, just right wingers who had to play there (Giannakopoulos, Karagounis)! And yet Herr Otto did it. And the players he did include played their best games ever. Crazy stuff.

One last thing I wanna say is a rather lengthy rant about all those people who accuse Greece of playing defensively. You may skip this part if you wish

. It's 100% that we do, but tell me, doesn't it take effort to play so well? England played defensively, but even though they scored first in their two most important games, they managed to conceide goals and eventually lose the games. Italy played defensively, Germany played defensively, but they didn't do much, did they? And when was the last time that a team managed to keep France and the Czechs from scoring a goal in a game? All I'm saying is that nothing happens out of pure luck, it takes a certain kind of skill to achieve things such as this one. Skill, and a master manager, such as Herr Otto, who decrypted the tactics of every opponent, and managed to stop them as well.

Ok, so I lied, I wanna say some more things.

Portugal never really had much of a pace, not even in the end, but who knows how things might have turned out had that guy not entered the field. Ah well, I'll leave that to the conspiracy theorists.

In retrospect, and in all honesty, it was a pretty poor competition. Definitely better than the last World Cup, but still not all that great. Besides the games that Greece played, to which I'm totally partial towards, the only other games I'll remember will be Czech Rep - Holland and Portugal - England.

P.S.
If you wanna see how big a deal this was for us Greeks, just listen to these people getting a stroke when Dellas scored against the Czechs

http://a16.g.akamai.net/7/16/5513/v1/atoll.download.akamai.com/3249/sportfm/1.zip
(it's an .mp3, dunno why they zipped it)

P.S.2
SE DYO XRONIA STHN GERMANIA,
FERTE MAS THN VRAZILIA!!!!!!!!!!

Barcik · Mon 05/07/2004 23:45:53

Quote from: Spyros on Mon 05/07/2004 22:07:38
Glory to the one who hacked the Matrix program and changed the European Champion to GreeceÃ,Â

It's also ironic that
Nikopolidis was boycotted by his team for not signing his new contract and haven't played any match in the last 3-4 months

Fyssas and Karagounis were dismissed by their team as "losers"

Dellas was dismissed by his team because he costed too much (200.000 euros!!!!!!!!)

Kapsis Zagorakis Katsouranis and Tsiartas were not being paid the last 1,5 years because their team had financial problems and probably will bankrupt.

Haristeas was given on loan to a B' category team because no team wanted him and also called by some people Ahristeas (useless)

That's why we all love football.

Barcik · Wed 07/07/2004 02:12:53

Why does this thread keep moving from gen gen to popular?

Euro 2004

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