Greece wins the Euro Cup!

[Aphex_Twin]

Don't move this to Sports please. This is an event that goes beyond football and sports.

I'm now watching the television in shock, still not believing what happend. An accident is winning the lottery once, ever so rarely perhaps twice, but not thrice. They deserve it.

One for Greece, with a great deal of respect

 

[insurgent]

Congrats, Greece.

 

[LOVE_Magiska]

Yeah!
Go Greece! Go Greece! Go Greece!

 

[jack merchant]

χaλάζι Ελλάda !

(don't shoot me if babelfish can't translate )

 

[JJP]

Congrats Greece! Good job.

 

[Mise]

Good for Greece, bad for football

 

[embitteredpoet]

Best team on the night won.

 

[blindside]

Didn't know Greece had a football team that was considered good. I haven't been following European football for a few years now but Greece was never too good. Surprised Spain, Germany, Italy, Holland didn't do better.

 

[Saga of Gemini]

Not so much that greece won ( since my team was Spain ) is that PORTUGAL LOOOOOOOOOOOOST, thats the GOOD thing. Congrats to jeniffer aniston ( hehehe) and all the greeks. This must be Zeus work.. . The bad thing ..is that my country will run out of bread for this....

 

[Inter4]

Mise: actually, it's very good for football. They eliminated France (the champions), Czech Rep. (The favorites) and Portugal (the home team). So they deserved to win. If someone didn't watch the euro2004, please don't post such lthings like ''greece sucks!'' or stuff like that because you would have no idea of what actually happened..

 

[Mise]

To be fair, none of the "good" teams played their best (or even fairly well), whereas Greece played far better than I ever thought they could play. For me, it was a bit of a dissappointing tournament, since I'd rather see a good team playing good football, than an... umm... "average" team play excellent football.

 

[ainwood]

Don't move this to Sports please. This is an event that goes beyond football and sports.

Moderator Action: Maybe if it were rugby. People can always follow the redirect. Moved

 

[Marla_Singer]

Moderator Action: Maybe if it were rugby. People can always follow the redirect. Moved

Ainwood, I know it's against the rules to comment moderators actions, but you're also breaking the rules requiring objectivity to moderators !

LET'S PUT THIS THREAD BACK IN OFF-TOPIC !!

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[raen]

They are tricky and sneaky, but they play well, they are strong, they run, they do simple and good passes, they dont miss their chances of Goal

Congratulations to Greece, they deserved

Portugal could do a little better, but Greece was part of it too.

 

[Vinaes]

Alas what a day for modern sport. It is truely decaying, but what a way to put out the last gasps before it gets swollowed by the Asian football! GREECE were the rightous winners of the ECC!

 

[Hitro]

Greeks and non-Greeks are out on the street to celebrate. Maybe I can get some free Ouzo...?

Congratulations once again!

 

[embitteredpoet]

It's like korea in the world cup imho, they were the best drilled squad and so outperformed teams with better players. If the 'top' nations want to have great national sides, they should decrease the amount of games the players have to play for their clubs. This would never work in football because the costs are too great, but in cricket they have central contracts for the core of the squad so they can play together more.
If only England had a defence that was drilled to bea ble to defend from set pieces we'd have been unstoppable (probably).

 

[MCdread]

Congratulations to Greece. They beat us twice, and there's nothing to say about it. It would have been great to live tonight what Marla said she lived in 1998, but it won't happen. We're too small to go for it again I think, and you only have to look at our history too see it. Only football could bring such incredible nights like those I've lived after the games against Spain, England and Holland, and only football can bring me the kind of feeling I have now. It was great until today of course, but this night all I can think about is what a moment we in this country lost, what a feeling we will never feel, what an euphoria we will never live. Maybe it will happen in the distant future, but today I know I will die without knowing that feeling, very few people do of course, but I will be too old for it, we've lost afinal at home.
I can't make you understand it of course, because you come from other cultures, other cities, other collective memories, but tonight we lost, and tonight I have felt what Portugal is and has been in her history: the sadness, the lost opportunities, the nostalgia, in one word, the "fado". This is what fado is, as the song goes, "Tudo isto é triste, tudo isto é fado" (All this is sad, all this is fado).

 

[Hitro]

Only football could bring such incredible nights like those I've lived after the games against Spain, England and Holland, and only football can bring me the kind of feeling I have now.

If anyone ever asks what makes it as important as it is this will make a nice answer...

It was great until today of course, but this night all I can think about is what a moment we in this country lost, what a feeling we will never feel, what an euphoria we will never live. Maybe it will happen in the distant future, but today I know I will die without knowing that feeling, very few people do of course, but I will be too old for it, we've lost afinal at home.
I can't make you understand it of course, because you come from other cultures, other cities, other collective memories, but tonight we lost, and tonight I have felt what Portugal is and has been in her history: the sadness, the lost opportunities, the nostalgia, in one word, the "fado". This is what fado is, as the song goes, "Tudo isto é triste, tudo isto é fado" (All this is sad, all this is fado).

Well, one could say that fortunately there's always (or usually) a next tournament. But I can relate to what you say, Portuguese or not.

 

[MCdread]

Well, one could say that fortunately there's always (or usually) a next tournament. But I can relate to what you say, Portuguese or not.

Well, there is allways a next tournament indeed, but there is always a special moment in your life, in any of your expressions as a human being. People's opium or not, football is an expression of what we are, of what I am. I am young now, but there's not much time left until I'm old. I have been born, I've played as a child, I've kissed my first girl, and I've had sex with women I've loved, and I know I will continue to do it. But why do I feel lost now? Because I know that I will be old and I will die and won't lived what I could have lived tonight. That's what football is all about, that's what life is all about. We take chances and we loose others. I could have been now in the streets, kissing people, kissing the portuguese people I love and hate with equal strenght. Others will do it in other parts of this world, but tonight I know I will never do it: now, at home, while I'm young, while I'm inocent, while life is ahead of me.
Maybe I'm just too drunk, but if anayone ever says to me that football is just a game, I'll say (I say it now): go to hell!

Once again, congrats to the greeks, a nice team you have, and I have nothing to complain about the game, only about life...