Asimaki: “The phrase of Voula Patoulidou is always in our minds. All about our Greece”

She was overjoyed Alexandra Asimaki in the return of the national team to Greece after the bronze in the European and securing the qualification to the Olympic Games in Paris.

Visibly moved, she described the achievement of the goal as redemption for women’s polo and emphasized the great importance that success with the national team’s cap has for her.

In detail, what he said:

“What we have achieved is huge. It’s so shocking, it’s a moment I’ve dreamed about so many times over the years. I am the oldest and most experienced of the internationals and I feel that I connect all these generations who worked and toiled until we got to get that coveted ticket. One pre-Olympics went by and then another and we didn’t make it. A huge moment of redemption for women’s water polo that has given so many great moments to our country. But it was such a big thorn that Olympic ticket that didn’t come… I know that a lot of people who served our national team and really loved it from various positions, are very proud and happy with this well-deserved qualification that we brought. A bronze medal for our Greece, we raised our Greece high again.

We athletes are the greatest blessing to wear the national emblem and represent our country. And we always try to make all Greeks proud. Because the phrase of Voula Patoulidou that I heard as a child “for Greece, damn it” is always in our minds. All for our Greece… Her women’s water polo will be in the Olympics again, we made it after 16 years. I personally feel redeemed because I have been here with the team for the last month. Medal and qualification and the best is only ahead for this team. We’re moving on».

Have you realized what you have achieved?

“I really feel like I was given the opportunity to see things differently. I wish I could breathe in every thousandth of the moment and everything that happens. What has happened is huge. But we shouldn’t dwell on that. This team, which, like our men, is used to so much joy, must not miss any opportunity. With so much talent and experience he must build on this success, “build” and be firmly in the elite».

Another great moment of your career…

“She is one of the most beautiful as it came… I stopped being active during covid which was a big shock to all of us. Everything was postponed, the Olympics were postponed a year. We were in the pre-Olympic preparation phase, and the event was canceled and moved to the following year. I decided to retire from active life, to open a new page in my life which was the creation of our family with my husband and waiting for the arrival of our beautiful daughter. A new chapter has opened. Then maybe I couldn’t imagine that I will be with these wonderful girls again who, God bless them, always lead our Greece high. But I think it’s a very nice script as it turned out. And the epilogue is not in yet, and I hope it will be very sweet for all of us».