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So, Holland’s fantastic run at Euro2004 (reaching the semi-finals by winning just one
game) has come to an end, we got beaten 2-1 by an excellent Portugal, we didn’t even score that goal ourselves, a Portuguese defender was friendly enough to score an own goal 
, we didn’t create any real chances ourselves, while Portugal could/should have scored a couple more….. 
So, let’s hope that this is the end for Dick Advocaat and that generation of players that he keeps putting his trust in, for reasons only known to him
"rambleon" wrote:yeah, i just read about how the dutch press has been so cruel to advokaat … is that really necessary ?I think they were quite mild….
Greece did it! They beat big favourites 1-0, with a ‘silver goal’ in the last minute of the first part of the extra-time
It wasn’t the most exciting game, but the Holland coaching staff should study a tape of this game, maybe they learn from it how a well disciplined, well organized defence works…..
Fantastic result of the Greek! Its a pitty that "Passion" doesn’t attend this board anymore. He could give us a fine report about the state of mind of the Greek at the moment. The greek word for it is:
They go MALAKKA!!
We will defeat those portugese PUSTI Quote:They go MALAKKA!! We will defeat those portugese PUSTIyou know, i used to work for a greek company + i know exactly what you’re talking about there … naughty, naughty
but i hope + pray greece wins it too … that would be just fantastic … plus, it would make my friend vassilis a very happy man indeed :aliensmile: :aliensmile: :aliensmile:
Quote:They go MALAKKA!! We will defeat those portugese PUSTIyou know, i used to work for a greek company + i know exactly what you’re talking about there … naughty, naughty
but i hope + pray greece wins it too … that would be just fantastic … plus, it would make my friend vassilis a very happy man indeed :aliensmile: :aliensmile: :aliensmile:
"rambleon" wrote:Quote:They go MALAKKA!! We will defeat those portugese PUSTIyou know, i used to work for a greek company + i know exactly what you’re talking about there … naughty, naughty
but i hope + pray greece wins it too … that would be just fantastic … plus, it would make my friend vassilis a very happy man indeed :aliensmile: :aliensmile: :aliensmile:
I believe that "Malakka" is the most used word in new Greek. Pusti must be runner-up. It must be a very naughty language.
Once I advised a dutch friend of mine, who went to Greece the first time, to get prime attention of the barkeeper by using "Malakka" Never heard how the story ended
Greece somehow did it, they beat Portugal 1-0, and you can’t even say that it was undeserved, must be one of the biggest surprises in the history of football championships, and I think it will be the party of the century tonight in Athens….
Greek/Greece fans marched & drove up & down my street (Little Italy
) yesterday,
waving flags with their faces paintedGotta love that :aliensmile:
athens welcomes home their heroes … click on "olive"
link to see photos … Heroes back in Greece
The Greek football team are set to celebrate their Euro 2004 triumph with thousands of fans in Athens.
The team were greeted by a cheering crowd when they touched down at the capital’s airport soon after 1700 BST (1600 GMT) on Monday evening.
And Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis praised the team ahead of their arrival at a packed Panathenaic stadium.
"Greece is on the lips of everyone in the world who follows this mass and magical sport football," he said.
More than 35,000 fans were estimated to be gathered in the stadium, where the first modern Olympic Games were held in 1896, to await the team’s arrival.
Earlier, the players’ plane taxied through an arch of water made by two fire engines.
Coach Otto Rehhagel and his players, many wearing their medals, were presented with flowers and the fans cheered as they displayed the Henri Delaunay trophy.
Police had said they would ban all traffic along the 21-mile route from the airport at least one hour before the plane touched down.
But it did not stop a crowd of about 1,500 people from gathering to welcome back their heroes, beating drums and singing the national anthem.
Prime Minister Karamanlis has urged Greeks to join the celebrations – but use the Euro 2004 euphoria as a shot in the arm for its last-minute rush to be ready for the Olympic Games.
Dogged by construction delays, the city is struggling to be ready for the opening ceremony on 13 August.
"These boys taught us a lesson as to what Greeks can do when we really believe in something," said Karamanlis.
"This is the best passport, the best invitation for the Olympics, because this great Greek summer continues in one-and-a half months with the Games."
It is understood the Government is not planning a public holiday to mark the triumph.
"We have a full office working here just like any other day and I’m not aware of any plans for a public holiday," said a spokesman for the Athens 2004 organising committee.
Millions of fans had taken to the streets on Sunday night, in cars or on foot, jumping into fountains, scaling buildings and unfurling a sea of blue and white flags.
Fire trucks and police cars joined the party, parading along with the crowd through the capital.
The ancient Acropolis was lit by fireworks while cannons under the city’s Lycabetus hill fired celebratory shots to hail Greece’s 1-0 victory over Portugal, courtesy of Angelos Haristeas’ header.
Radio stations on Monday played traditional syrtaki music to keep Athenians in the party spirit, and even political newspapers wore the national colours of blue-and-white around full-page pictures of the squad.
"They lifted Greece to the top of Europe," ran the headline of Eleftheros Typos.
"We won, break down the gates, our boys return as champions," said Ethnos, in reference to the ancient Greek custom of tearing down a section of the city walls to welcome returning Olympic winners.
A small country of 11m people, many Greeks saw in their victory a symbolic ascendancy for their country.
"Greeks can enjoy the fact that they can look other Europeans eye to eye, without an inferiority complex," said 44-year old Greek Costas Kokkaras.
SporTime wrote "God please give us more tears so we can keep crying from happiness."
But it was a banner hanging from a suburban Athens street that most defined the Greek mood.
"If this is a dream, then I never want to wake up," it said.
in Germany, everyone was cheering for Greece, especially because their coach is german (…after people here got over the shock about the german team being kicked out that early
).but strange enough, the most widespread emontions I observed was about that the dutch team had to leave too, before the final
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