The Men’s National Polo team defeated the USA 16-13 at the “Vassilis Polymeros” Swimming Pool in Nea Ionia, Volos, in a friendly preparation match and showed a positive sign for the big events of the coming months.
The National team lined up with twelve players in its lineup, due to illness, and among them were the young Dimitris Dimou and Nikos Gillas in their debut with the big coat of arms. The federal tried systems and saw the team’s psychology go up.
An open and free game was played at “Vassilis Polymeros”. Greece was very good to the player above, but also conceded several goals to the player less. Argyropoulos-Kanakakis was the first scorer of the team in the first and Fundoulis took action in the second.
Both teams kept pace in the score, while the National team escaped with +2. The Americans tied for the last time at 9-9 in the middle of the third eight minutes and then Greece found more solutions, stopped the American offensive trump cards and took the victory.
Greece had 6/10 points, 2/2 penalties, 6 perimeters (1 6m.), 1 counter, 1 fullback.
The USA had 7/12 BC, 4 regions, 2 fullback.
Eight minutes: 3-2, 4-5, 5-3, 4-3
GREECE (Thodoris Vlachos): Zerdevas, Genidounias 1, Skoumpakis 1, Giouvetsis, Foundoulis 5, Papanastasiou 3, Gillas, Argyropoulos – Kanakakis 5, Gouvis, Nikolaidis 1, Alafragkis, Dimou
USA (Dejan Udovicic): Turner, Dunstad 1, Vavic, Farmer, Daube, Langiewicz, Halok 4, Woodhead 2, Bowen 3, Stevenson 2, Earhard, Irving 1, Holland, Growell, Abramson
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