HELLAS HELLAS

[username]

i too think greece has the second hardest group. but russia will choke!

[TM87]

i too think greece has the second hardest group. but russia will choke!

Not with Guss in charge Thats the only reason why i say Greece will not make it pass the group stage. But Good luck to ya you will need it in this tough group. First game will be a must win.

[mustafa_sudzuka]

Greece what a joke..couldnt even beat Armenia, lucky to walk away with a draw
CHOKERS

[username]

greece made 5 subs at half time! i watched the game, and they honestly played like they didnt want to be there! gekas got triped and had a dummy spit at the player and looked to be saying: 'dont fucn hack me i got euro next week'. it was a dull boring affair. Doesn't mean anything.

[Robbie Williams]

Greece what a joke..couldnt even beat Armenia, lucky to walk away with a draw
CHOKERS

Turkey ,we eat them at christmas.

[El Pibe D'Oro]

Tuncay, explain how greece are chokers???? Please, I dont get it???

Anyway, Greece will have a tough time in that group - Russia will be much harder than ppl think - well drilled with a super playmaker in Arshavin.

[COLOSSUS]

Greece what a joke..couldnt even beat Armenia, lucky to walk away with a draw
CHOKERS

Mate, your a friken clown buddy, you really are. Did you even watch the game this morning???
If you know anything about Greece apart from the 300 Spartans that licked your Persian armies of 1000 nations(LOL), or ALEXANDROS, the man who injected Greek blood into you blokes via your women, you will know that we played Armenia with more interchanges than an AFL football match, and our team didnt really care. They were more worried about not getting injured and just getting some match fitness before next weeks 1st game.

Armenia played like their countries existence was at stake

And CHOKERS, who us??? hahahahahahaha, your a funny turk you are pal. Just thank Norway that you are even at this tournament and worry about your own crap team. Remember, you finished BELOW us in qualifying, thats right BELOW us where weve always had you, you filthy scumbags

[COLOSSUS]

Tuncay, explain how greece are chokers???? Please, I dont get it???

Anyway, Greece will have a tough time in that group - Russia will be much harder than ppl think - well drilled with a super playmaker in Arshavin.

He cant explain it Scudetto, hes just a filthy turk that will take any excuse to have a dig at the GREAT ELLAS

Let him talk the talk, and we'll see his team walk the walk all the way back FILTHstanbul

[arxidi]

LOL like the greeks could give a faaaaaark... one week before the euro, why risk injuries? u stupid turkish mongol faaaaarkhead, if u really think the greeks went in 100% ur in lalalalala land!!!

i say visit dreamland, where they cant be beaten on price!

[Pinga]

My Thoughts
ELLAS
Back2Back Euros

[Robbie Williams]

Greece what a joke..couldnt even beat Armenia, lucky to walk away with a draw
CHOKERS

Mate, your a friken clown buddy, you really are. Did you even watch the game this morning???
If you know anything about Greece apart from the 300 Spartans that licked your Persian armies of 1000 nations(LOL), or ALEXANDROS, the man who injected Greek blood into you blokes via your women, you will know that we played Armenia with more interchanges than an AFL football match, and our team didnt really care. They were more worried about not getting injured and just getting some match fitness before next weeks 1st game.

Armenia played like their countries existence was at stake

And CHOKERS, who us??? hahahahahahaha, your a funny turk you are pal. Just thank Norway that you are even at this tournament and worry about your own crap team. Remember, you finished BELOW us in qualifying, thats right BELOW us where weve always had you, you filthy scumbags

HERE ,HERE. AT THE TURKS.

[mustafa_sudzuka]

greece sucks balls
couldnt beat armeniaaaa hahahaaaha
and the game against hungary...risk of injury too???? jus shut your mouths and play football
TURKEY 4-1 Greece in ATHENS hahahahaa let me guess nikopolidis fell asleep yeah right
TUNCAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

[Pinga]

greece sucks balls
couldnt beat armeniaaaa hahahaaaha
and the game against hungary...risk of injury too???? jus shut your mouths and play football
TURKEY 4-1 Greece in ATHENS hahahahaa let me guess nikopolidis fell asleep yeah right
TUNCAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

Gets all his Glory from living in the passed. Anyone can win a game, but not everyone can win a Euro

[candyman]

Tuncay,im not a fan of Greek soccer,but at least Greece
have won Euro.
What silverware does your national team have.
As for sucking balls,Well at least Greece has contributed to
this world.
You Turks are hated by all,all over the world.
You Turks are that low,you could walk underneath a snail.

[LFTWNG11]

Tuncay, explain how greece are chokers???? Please, I dont get it???

Anyway, Greece will have a tough time in that group - Russia will be much harder than ppl think - well drilled with a super playmaker in Arshavin.

He cant explain it Scudetto, hes just a filthy turk that will take any excuse to have a dig at the GREAT ELLAS

Let him talk the talk, and we'll see his team walk the walk all the way back FILTHstanbul

why call them a "filthy turk"... i thought when you called someone a turk, it was implied that they are filthy

oh and olympiacos, thanks for the piss... ill take watever i can get!! hahaha

Italy v Greece in the quarters I cant wait!!!

[mustafa_sudzuka]

4-1 my greek friends, 4-1
thats a damn thrashing hahaha
and yes i will keep going on about it
it was a good day for the turks

[COLOSSUS]

4-1 my greek friends, 4-1
thats a damn thrashing hahaha
and yes i will keep going on about it
it was a good day for the turks

Funniest part is, you beat us 4-1, and you still couldnt finish TOP of the group

You scumbags should remember this, you finished BELOW the mighty ELLAS

Now go back to FILTHstanbul, and ask your mates what happened when the EURO 04 Champions last visited your country LOSERS

Heres a joke for you Tuncay: 2 filthy turkish Professors were taking a walk in the woods when they came along a set of tracks, professor number 1 says "they are rabbit tracks", professor number 2 says "no, i studied this at university, they are deer tracks". Professor 1 says "im telling you they are rabbit tracks", Professor 2 says "no way, they are deer tracks".
Anyway, while they were arguing, they got hit by a train

See, thats how smart you people are, dumbasses

[Panathinaikos]

hmmm didnt think mongolians were educated colossus let alone professors, lol

[COLOSSUS]

hmmm didnt think mongolians were educated colossus let alone professors, lol

lol, very true, but was meargley stating how easy it is to become a professor in FilthSTANBUL
Professors of SKATA

[mustafa_sudzuka]

there was a plane with 4 passangers ,
one greek ,, one armenian , one Turkish and
his 10 year old son...

suddenly pilot makes an announcement,
gentlemen we have a technical problem and I urge
to take the three parachutes which we have and jump
to save at least 3 of your lives...

the armenian says , well I am from california and
I will be the next governor and I cannot die ,
so he takes one parachute and jumps...

then the greek guy , says , I have a large fleet
of ships and I am very smart so I shouldnot die and
he takes one of the bags and jumps...

then the Turkish father says , sonny I am old
you have to live and grow older , please take the
last parachute and save yourself...

the 10 year old turkish boys says,
daddy dont worry we can jump together since we still have two parachutes ...!
father says how comes son there was only three??

the kid says , the very smart greek guy took my
school backpack and he jumped dad...!

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Can Greece Lightning Strike Twice?

Following their totally unexpected victory of Euro 2004 in Portugal, Greece managed to qualify for this tournament with the most points (31) of any side to have made it to Austria and Switzerland – but can Greece do the unthinkable and win the European Championship title for a second successive time?

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Year Tournament      Next
     Winner          European 
                     Championship Record

1960 USSR            Runners Up
1964 Spain           Failed to Qualify
1968 Italy           Failed to Qualify
1972 West Germany    Runners Up
1976 Czechoslovakia  Semi Final
1980 West Germany    First Round
1984 France          Failed to Qualify
1988 Netherlands     Semi Final
1992 Denmark         First Round
1996 Germany         First Round
2000 France          Quarter Final
2004 Greece          ???

No team has managed to win back-to-back European Championship titles before, so in the unlikely event that Greece do go on to win Euro 2008, they would be the first team to do so.
Only five of the 11 previous champions have been able to get past the first round of the next European Championships, so Greece will be more than wary of falling foul of this record.

[Motley]

The Sweeds will be a big test. After the game against armenia there were quite a few players that have made it harder for Otto pick a first 11.

I would have said leading into the game he would go with:

Nikopolidis (our safest choice and I doubt whether Otto would change here)
Torosidis
Dellas
Kyriakos
Seitaridis
Katsouranis
Karagounis
Basinas
Amanatidis
Gekas
Haristeas (whether you agree or not Otto loves the way this bloke plays)

as his starting 11

But some reasonable efforts by Patzazouglou, Antzas, Salpigithis, Spiropoulos and Samaras will make it harder for him to pick a starting 11. Antzas especially really impressed me and even though I am a big fan of Dellas that will be a hard call to make. He also has Limberopoulos and Giannakopoulos who can make an impact in this side. Would have been nice to see Ninis and Papastathoupoulos (as Kop has mentioned) have made this side. Both these boys have to montys for the next world cup campaign.

What ever the case will be its now up to Otto to get us up and ready.

Time for Ellas to kick some ass.

[Motley]

VICTORY

http://youtube.com/watch?v=b2kEQumJEbc

[username]

no need to argue with tuncay. DEEP DOWN, he is well aware of the facts of soccer in recent years, these facts speak for themselves! stupid tuncay.

[mustafa_sudzuka]

what happend to kapsis? him and dellas were good defenders in 2004

[username]

kapsis got old! dellas is still in team!

[TM87]

GREECE ARE STILL A UNKNOWN FACTOR. Yes they won 2004 but it has to be repeated with a solid tournament. They also need to prove them selfs at the World Cup.

In the grand scale of things the Greeks are still very much an unknown quantity at international level. While they have sent a team to contest every single European Championship qualification round, only three times have they proven successful: 1980, 2004 and 2008. Their World Cup record makes for even grimmer reading, with just one qualification out of the 16 which they entered. Granted, in both competitions one of their campaigns ended in withdrawl from Yugoslavia, yet it remains not the most encouraging of statistics

Still, one could conclude that this merely makes their 2004 win all the more exciting and admirable. Indeed, prior to 2004 their pre-tournament record of mediocrity was matched only by their failure to step up to the competition proper. This was particularly true of the World Cup - to this day their record reads played 3, lost 3, scored 0, conceded 10 - but it's also the case in the European Championships, where they failed to impress until that remarkable victory in Portugal.

Clearly, then, 2004 was something of an anomaly.

UEFA EURO 2008

Team - Progress to Quarter Final - Progress to Semi Final - Progress to Final - Win

Germany - 83% - 51% - 32% - 17%
Spain - 79% - 42% - 24% - 14%
Netherlands - 55% - 33% - 18% - 10%
Czech Republic - 63% - 36% - 20% - 10%
France - 54% - 32% - 17% - 10%
Romania - 49% - 27% - 14% - 7%
Italy - 42% - 23% - 12% - 6%
Switzerland - 51% - 25% - 12% - 5%
Portugal - 51% - 25% - 11% - 5%
Croatia - 55% - 26% - 11% - 5%
Sweden - 45% - 17% - 7% - 3%
Greece - 43% - 15% - 6% - 2%
Turkey - 34% - 14% - 6% - 2%
Poland - 37% - 14% - 5% - 2%
Russia - 33% - 10% - 3% - 1%
Austria - 26% - 9% - 3% - 1%

A2% chance of lifting the cup it might be decades before you celebrate any silver ware again.

[Motley]

GREECE ARE STILL A UNKNOWN FACTOR. Yes they won 2004 but it has to be repeated with a solid tournament. They also need to prove them selfs at the World Cup.


I think for the sake of preventing suicides from this forum lets not even discuss the thought of this

In the grand scale of things the Greeks are still very much an unknown quantity at international level. While they have sent a team to contest every single European Championship qualification round, only three times have they proven successful: 1980, 2004 and 2008. Their World Cup record makes for even grimmer reading, with just one qualification out of the 16 which they entered. Granted, in both competitions one of their campaigns ended in withdrawl from Yugoslavia, yet it remains not the most encouraging of statistics

Still, one could conclude that this merely makes their 2004 win all the more exciting and admirable. Indeed, prior to 2004 their pre-tournament record of mediocrity was matched only by their failure to step up to the competition proper. This was particularly true of the World Cup - to this day their record reads played 3, lost 3, scored 0, conceded 10 - but it's also the case in the European Championships, where they failed to impress until that remarkable victory in Portugal.

Clearly, then, 2004 was something of an anomaly.

UEFA EURO 2008

Team - Progress to Quarter Final - Progress to Semi Final - Progress to Final - Win

Germany - 83% - 51% - 32% - 17%
Spain - 79% - 42% - 24% - 14%
Netherlands - 55% - 33% - 18% - 10%
Czech Republic - 63% - 36% - 20% - 10%
France - 54% - 32% - 17% - 10%
Romania - 49% - 27% - 14% - 7%
Italy - 42% - 23% - 12% - 6%
Switzerland - 51% - 25% - 12% - 5%
Portugal - 51% - 25% - 11% - 5%
Croatia - 55% - 26% - 11% - 5%
Sweden - 45% - 17% - 7% - 3%
Greece - 43% - 15% - 6% - 2%
Turkey - 34% - 14% - 6% - 2%
Poland - 37% - 14% - 5% - 2%
Russia - 33% - 10% - 3% - 1%
Austria - 26% - 9% - 3% - 1%

A2% chance of lifting the cup it might be decades before you celebrate any silver ware again.

Czechoslovakia Denmark France Germany Ellas Italy Netherlands Spain USSR to my knowledge are the only countries to win Euro. Do you think that the F/As of any other european nations would rather be a Euro champion or have a better win/loss record than Ellas?????

[TM87]

Yes you won 2004 but that was something of an anomaly. Enjoy it it will be your last. You will be dead in your grave before hellass win anything again.

[The Kop]

k-man whats your point?

Whats the source of that table? People's opinion and voting.
If so, please dig us up one from 4 years ago so I can scientifically compare the outcomes......