Incredible National team, going full speed for a medal!
Our country’s Men’s polo team put on an excellent performance in the second half and thanks to their excellent defense, prevailed with a score of 20-16 to Japan and triumphantly qualified in the semi-finals of the World Cup taking place in Bucharest, Romania!
Tomorrow, Saturday (11/01) at 17:30, his team Thodori Vlachou will face the mighty in the first semi-final of the tournament Hungarywhich earlier today eliminated her Georgia with the imposing 21-10in the battle of the two countries for the qualification to the grand final of the institution!
Leading for Greece were Stelios Argyropoulos,Alexandros Papanastasiou, and the leader Konstantinos Genidounias with four goals, with Gillas adding three goals and Nicolaidis and Skoubakis adding two each!
Beyond the importance of qualifying for the semi-finals, our National team ensured her presence in the Super Final of the event, which will be held on April 18-20 in Montenegro, where three tickets are given away to the World Championship this summer in Singapore!
The match:
The pace of the match was excellent in the first eight minutes, where the attacks of the two countries had the first say in the match. Japan led 2-0 in the first two minutes, with the National our team to immediately equalize with two of his goals Papanastasiou. Takata, Suzuki and Inaba scored 2-5 for the typical visitors, before the “blue and white” equalized at 5-5 of the eighth minutethanks to Argyropoulos’ two goals in man-up situations, but also Chalivopoulos’ goal.
The scene was similar in second eight minutes, with the two teams going hand in hand in scoring throughout. Taking advantage of the condition of the player above, the team of Thodoris Vlachos found solutions with the goals of Argyropoulos and Nicolaidis, while, a little later, they took the lead for the first time with a goal of Papanastasiou for 8-7 at 12:30! Afterwards, Genidounias added his name to the scoreboard with a goal from 6 meters (9-9), at the time when the Japanese closed the half time in front of the score for 9-10.
In the third eight minutes, the Greek defense spoke! Thanks to our excellent performance at the back of the pool, but also the great interventions of Zerdeva, Greece managed to control the match and bring the match to their own devices, performing an incredible performance in attack as well! With a penalty by Constantinos Genidounias and a goal by Stelios Argyropoulos, our representative group led 11-10 in the first two minutes, to be followed by our fifth successful point in a man over with Gillas to it says 12-10 two minutes later! In fact, our team continued in the same pattern with Papanastasiou, Genidounias, Skoubakis and Gillas “bombarding” the opposing nets for 16-11 of the eight minute!
With acquired speed and psychology at its height, our national team did not leave the foot off the gas even at the beginning of the fourth and last eight minutes, where with individual scores of 3-0 and scorers Nikolaidis, Skoubakis and Genidounias, they did 19-11 in 3 minutes. Somewhere there, as was logical, our internationals took turns, which Japan took advantage of to reduce in the final 20-16.
The eight minutes: 5-5, 9-10, 16-11, 20-16.
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