“Gold” in Turkey, the National Junior Polo. Elias Machaira’s men defeated Serbia 9-8 in the final of the European Championship in Turkey to go top, continuing the international success for the sport.
The National team led 6-1 and 9-5, but the Serbians with two runs in a few minutes made the match a derby, but missed the last crucial attack.
The Serbs opened the scoring with Gladovic, but after Lykoudi’s equaliser, the Greek attack found the solutions and reached 4-1 with Lykoudi, since the Serbs could not score against the pressing Greek defence, so Laskaridis made the 5 -1 and the half “closed” at 6-1 for the representative team.
The Serbs went down first with Novakovic and then went on a 3-0 run to make it 6-4 in just two minutes, but Karatzas made it 7-5, Zervoudakis 8-5 and Kapragos 9-5. The Serbians with two quick goals cut to 9-7 with 2′:29” left. A serious mistake with 1:10 to go made it 9-8 for the Serbs with Boskovic, with the representative group having an extra attack. The Serbs pressed high, took the last attack, but missed miserably and Greece took the gold.
derby, but they missed the last crucial attack.
The eight minutes: 3-1, 3-0, 1-4, 2-3
HELLAS: Mavriopoulos, Lykoudis 2, Kokkinos 1, Karatzas 2, Kapragos 1, Laskaridis 2, Zervoudakis 1, Chomatas, Mitrakis, Siamas, Belesis, Maragoudakis, Detained
SERBIA: Dimkovic, Bodiroga, Novakovic 1, Isitovic, Spasovic, Gladovic 3, Lazic, Kozic, Adamovic 2, Boskovic 1, Krstic 1, Dimić, Savic
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