Thomas Bimis – Nikos Siranidis Ilias Iliadis Vasilis Polymenos – Nikos Skiathitis Sofia Bekatorou – Emilia Tsoulfa Anastasia Kelesidou Pyrros Dimas Dimosthenis Tampakos Athanasia Tsoumeleka 8 medals (5 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze) for the Greek Olympic team. And hopefully, many more medals will come until the end of the games. Despite the dopping scandals, the withdrawals of athletes, Greek...
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In the end, we will remember, not the voice of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. This wonderful quote by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr came to mind after the now old news regarding Greece’s two star sprinters, Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou. If you just arrived on planet Earth or were...
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It’s not news by now, but it’s newsworthy. King Otto II (i.e., Otto Rehhagel a.k.a. Otto Rehhakles), winning coach of the Greek national football team, has not abdicated his throne. He rejected the multi-million euro offer by the German football federation and decided to stay in Greece and continue the work he and his colleagues...
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Well, Now that King Otto I and his band of underpaid (according to European standards), underestimated, and misrepresented players have won the Euro2004, Now that the lights have been switched off finally and everyone had a chance to drown his happiness or sorrow, Now that the big question is “will he stay or will he go back...
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Well, I am not going to comment on the night-long celebrations and festivities held in Athens, Greece upon the return of Greek national football team. The major news networks have already done so in splendid fashion. You can read what the BBC wrote. However, I believe that this quote by legendary football (as...
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In the overall spirit of euphoria blanketing the country only hours before the crucial semi-final soccer game against the national Czech team, it reminds me of the days of summer 1987. Back then, the Greek national basketball team beat several major basketball powers to claim its first European Title. France, Yugoslavia (yes there was...
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Hola! It’s a very warm 33 degrees Celcius (that’s about 88 deg. on the Fahrenheit scale) here in Patras, Greece. Euro2004 football is on the telly from Portugal, the Italians were given their tickets back home (compliments of Scandinavian air-lines, eer …, sorry, I meant Sweden and Denmark), and who cares about work? ...
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In the general climate of pan-hellenic euphoria after the 1-1 draw against Spain, I think that Otto Rehhagel, coach of our national soccer team, should be our next president of the hellenic republic. He deserves it 100%. Mostly, because he took a bunch of overpaid, under-stimulated, super-egotistical players and turned them...
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That is the question! Here are the choices for all of us on planet Europe, today on Sunday June 13, 2004: 1) Euro-elections. 2) Euro-football. 3) (special choice for mediterranean countries only): Go to the beach. The dilemma is even more complicated given that, at least here in Greece, there is Croatia vs. Switzerland (at 7pm local time), there...
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