His women’s water polo team achieved a prestigious victory Panioniin the final of the 1st qualifying group of the Champions League, which it hosted in Nea Smyrni. Tasos Papanastasiou’s team prevailed 18-14 over Italian Rapallo and ranked fourth.
Although the score was indifferent, the match was exciting, with the two teams keeping pace with the score. Yuri Arima had a terrific game for Panionios, scoring seven goals, while the revelation of the match was the 15-year-old forward, Irini Stavridou, who got playing time due to the absence of Margarita Bitsakou and scored five times. The “blue and red” managed to win in the last six minutes of the match, thanks to a partial 5-1.
The eight minutes (with Rapalo, typically the home team, first): 3-3, 3-4, 6-5, 2-6
The composition of Panionio: Gangle, Arima 7, Papadopoulou, Rakintzi, Alen 2, Mastrokalou, Karagianni, Loudi 2, Stavridou 5, Douli, Papanastasiou 2, Lampropoulou, Katsiou
** In the derby for first place in Group 1, Hungary’s Ferencvaros defeated Spain’s Sant Andreu 9-8, with Eleftheria Pleuritou scoring two goals. Both teams qualified for the group stage.
With a 14-10 victory over the home team Spandau, the Glyfada her obligations in the qualifying phase of the women’s Champions League in water polo. Argyris Theodoropoulos’ team with six points took third place in the 5th group, held in Berlin (behind Vouliagmeni and Videx Donk), but failed to get the ticket for the “16” as the best third among the five groups, after in Ete’s group there was a three-way tie at nine points, as a result of which all three tied teams (the Dutch Polar Bears and the Hungarian Dunauivaros and Vazutas) qualified.
ANOG will now continue its obligations in the Euro Cup, like all the teams that were eliminated in the Champions League qualifiers.
The eight minutes (with Spandau first): 1-4, 1-2, 2-3, 6-5
The composition of Glyfada: Williams, Nino 2, Moustakaria 4, Loudis 1, Grigoropoulou 1, Kalaitzi, Gilla 1, Turner, Kanellopoulou 1, Tjortzakaki 3, Laskaridou 1, Saltamanika, Tsiara
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