THE Serbia… paid for the broken things of Croatia and the Our national team will claim her honorable 5th place at the European Championship in Zagreb!
Despite being eliminated from the quarter-finals of the event and not being able to enter the medal zone, the team of Thodoris Vlachos showed great mental reserves, bending them Serbians with a score of 12-10 in a traditional Balkan derby, with the “blue and white” now getting the ticket for “final” of 5th place of the organization!
Our representative group did not enter the match well, as a result of which they fell behind in the score with 5-3 in the first eight minutes. Taking advantage of man-up situations, our internationals tied the game at 7-7 at halftime and 8-8 at quarter-time. Everything was decided in the last part of the match, where thei Alafragkis, Genidounias and Fundoulis they gave our National Team a three-goal lead (8-11), with Kakaris scoring a little later for 12-9 and Greece reaching a great and prestigious victory!
Now, our national team is waiting to know its opponent for the 5th place game, which will be the winner of the Romania-Montenegro pair.
The eight minutes: 5-3, 2-4, 1-1, 2-4
Serbia: Filipovic, Madic 3, Rasovic S. 1, Radelovic 1, Lazic 2, Radulovic 2, Drazovic, Jaksic, Milojevic, Ubovic, Lukic 1, Rasovic L., Mitrovic.
Hellas: Zerdevas, Genidounias 3, Skoubakis, Giuvetsis 1, Fundoulis 3, Papanastasiou, Dervisis, Argyropoulos, Alafragkis 1, Kakaris 2, Nikolaidis 1, Vlachopoulos 1, Tjortzatos.
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