The EPIC Story of How Greece Won EURO 2004
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- Опубліковано 17 чер 2024
- The epic tale of how Greece won EURO 2004, and how Portugal's loss in the final inspired their greatest success 12 years later.
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Huge respect to Greece and Otto, that man pulled some miracles
The greek player Zagorakis said while on a podcast said that during that final Pauleta told him something like " If i was greek i would be ashamed to win like this " to which Zagorakis replied " you are the only ones that cant talk you had 2 chances to beat us in your home and you didnt " , still Greece is the only international winner to win every match without penalty shoot-outs
Really? That’s an incredible story 😂
@@shatterfall_hunted8236 Pauleta was butt hurt , he shouldn't even started the initial 11 since for Portugal he mostly failed to score , should been Nuno Gomes instead of him
I was 14 back then and i remember that the final against Portugal was merely a typical procedure in most of our minds. As soon as that Dellas goal went in against the Czechs , we celebrated like we won it because after that, nothing could change the inevitable which was to lift the cup a few days later.
Yeah. Portugal vs. Czechia would have been a great game also. I think Rui Costa said he wanted to play the Czechs in the final because that Portugal team played better when they were scared.
@@90_plus_1 so true
Just a reminder Greece won it without a single penalty shootout which is insane for such team
Great point!
Best documentary about Greece 2004. Eyxaristo 😊
Thank you!
Otto was an ELITE coach
Yeah I wish I had time to go into more detail on him
The best analysis i 've ever watched in UA-cam about Greece 's triumph in EURO 2004. Thank you very much!
Thank you!
Another great video from the self-proclaimed GOAT of football content on YT
Very accurate video. 2 years ago England -Greece 2-2 was not by accident
Many people don't know that Greece faced Portugal also in a friendly match 20 days before euro and the score was 1-1.
Greece was doing back then what Real Madrid are doing now year in year out. Score 1 more goal than the opponent is the name of the game
This is different
Just to set record straight: you haven't given Greece their dues in their games against France and the Czechs. Greece took the game to France in the first half and had all the chances. And the Czechs 'chance after chance' was a random smashing volley off the bar in opening minutes, and Koller's chance near the end of the 90. Everything else was a half chance and they were nullified. Then, extra time was owned by Greece who had 3 chances within 15 minutes, with the pressure causing the corner that would win it. The game never restarted.
France game Greece did attack a lot in the first half, yes. But no, the Czech game they conceded a lot of chances and were very lucky. Not all chances were shown in the video. Call them half chances if you want to, but there were a few chances that definitely could have been scored… the game also did restart very briefly.
@@90_plus_1The Greeks dominated the Overtime with THEEE Chances in 15 Minutes & the winning goal.
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The Czechs' gameplay gave you a quite tricky impression of dominance and a FALSE impulse of labouring 'many great chances'...
Yet, besides the fact that I also saw that game (and still have it on tape in full length), I rather than on impressions would rely on hard data (OPTA stats): xgoals Czechs 0.9, xgoals Greeks 1.0 - even ball possesion can't provide any proof of czech 'dominance', as it was Cz 52% - Gr 48%.
In comparison, in the game France vs Greece, where you admit a better greek performance and a more balanced game, the xgoals were France 1.0 and Greece 0.6!
As an overall performance, the Greece 2004 defence worked out an outstanding 5.2% goals/goal chances ratio (that means their opponents had to produce an average of 19 goal chances to score 1 goal against Greece). This is one of the best ever values in football tournaments (WC & EC) history. Calling all this just 'luck' is a quite superficial approach and historically inaccurate.
Thanks anyway.
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Thanks mate! There’s plenty more to come 🫡
Class video!
GREECE STARTED AN ERA, WHEN THE EUROPEAN (NATIONAL TEAMS) FOOTBALL IS DOMINATED BY THE POOREST SOUTH COUNTRIES FOR THE LAST TWO DECADES.......
I still remember that awful guardian article about Greece winning in 2004. Media were super pissed the underdog won.
Very strange too. It’s a great story! I know people wanted Czechia and the English media were also bitter because we blew an amazing opportunity. But how could you get so angry about Greece winning? It’s amazing!
this one is a banger!!
Thanks mate!
back2back bangers
great vid! 👏
Thank you 🙏
I recall that Greece team was easily beaten by Brasil at the 2005 confederations
How they won the Euros was a shocker. Scolari should have played Christiano as a striker.
Greece beat him twice and that should have been alarming
Yeah he got a lot wrong that tournament, as many Portuguese fans pointed out at the time… Scolari’s career after that 2002 World Cup probably tells us that his success with Brazil was mostly down to the players.
Greece beat Portugal 5 times in a span of 4 years back then. Greece also beat Spain inside Spain with 10 Men & went 1 1/2 Years undefeated 👍🏻
2004 was literally a turning point for both nations, Greece did the impossible but ever since that tournament became irrelevant whilst Portugal went the opposite way and became a strong footballing nation
@@mainsmain Portugal was already a strong Footballing Nation. You must understand that this is all they focus on, I never hear Portugal in any other sports. They also have the Brazilian Pool where they pick out players & the Great Spanish Pool & Schools as Neighbors. We lose A LOT of potential Footballers to other Sports.
Greece actually did pretty well! They qualified for 1 Euro & 2 World Cups after that. Even progressing to the next stage in one of them. After that, however, with the Economic Crisis & Corruption of Greek Football, they are now back in a Dark Ages.
However, this year is better for Greek Football despite their extremely unlucky NT.
Olympiakos won the Uefa Conference League
Olympiakos also won the Uefa Youth League
Better days ahead for Greek Football I think. As far as accomplishments in Football, most of the smaller European Nations cannot even dream to have the Runs & Trophies that Greece has had for Club Teams & the NT.
In all other Sports, I won’t even mention. They have some of thee Winningest Multi-Sports Clubs in the World. In all Team Sports & Individual Sports 🇬🇷👍🏻
There many thinks that many people didnt know...greek players were not that famous just because they are greeks but as talents many of them they were high level players...tsartas was one of the best left footer playmakers...nikopolidis was a great goalkeeper and better than the most of the keepers in that euro.And i want to remind that they were not in the greek squad many talented players like georgatos and zikos who was in monaco at the 2004 ch league final
The year 2004 is absolutely full of surprises in world football. In South America, there was a Columbian minnow named Once Caldas, who made an international headline with their historic Copa Libertadores win after beating two Brazillian giants (Santos and next year's tournament winner Sao Paulo) and even beating the indomitable Boca Juniors team in the Final itself on penalties. All of these happened thanks to overwhelmingly negative football, much like the Greece national football team.
Awesome! Did not know this. It seemed every country had an underdog story in some form or another.
Griechenland hat das gemacht was mit diesem Team möglich war, die meisten Spieler waren International erfahren, keine Superstars, für viele hält Unbekannte Spieler, aber insgesamt hat Otto Rehhagel daraus ein Topteam gebildet, aus einer Starken Defensive geschlossen mitzuspielen, schaut euch nochmal die Spiele an, in jedem Spiel außer das mit Russland hat Griechenland Phasen Souveränität bewiesen, schaut euch den Pass von Tsiartas zum Tor gegen Spanien an. Der Mann ist ein Magier am Ball für die meisten bis dahin unbekannt.
A team that played to its strengths, scored in every single game of the tournament (some goals were great vs Portugal both times and vs France) and never needed penalties. But sure - call it anti-football.
Amazing video 😍
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it
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Copying the Greeks, like always!!
Why does youtube keep recommending this to me when they know damn well I'm portuguese ffs😭😭😭
My apologies. I hope you enjoy the happy ending though! 2016 was a great time for you guys
Portugal wasn't favourite either before the competition, they basically lost every friendly matches
Not quite true. They lost to Italy and Spain, drew with England and Sweden. They also beat Brazil and won the majority of games. Funnily enough they drew to Greece also in a friendly a year before the tournament. They weren’t favourites - but by the time they beat England everyone expected them or the Czechs to win… and it was a huge disappointment for Portugal not to win considering they were hosts and had an amazing team.
I'm hoping with all my heart that turkey wins the Euros. I love every player on the team,i like Montella and this year three miracles already happened (Atalanta winning theyr first trphy in 63 years and theyr first european thropy,Leverkusen winning two trophies and going unbeaten and A greek team winning a European thropy). Come on turkey🙏. Love from italy
It would be incredible
forza Italia
@@Chinaziland honestly i don't see us winning the tournament,we got absolutely thrashed by Spain, Donnarumma saved us 8 times,the game should have ended 4 or 5-0 and we didn't take a single shot on goal. Everything was a mess,the tactic and the players
12:50 Greece draw first blood from Ronaldo (the 1st time he´d cry), and turned him from a young age into the fanatic beast we all know... Every happy event has its own dark sides...
0:46 Georgatos, a star in Greece, and the best forward of the country ever, didn´t listen to the german coach´s advices (cause he was very arrogant,) and so, the best forward in Greece´s history was thrown out, and missed Euro2004... ;-) ;-) ;-) No coach before has ever dared to throw out such a star...!!!
11:46 Yeah, when England itself since 100 years, or Germany, do exactly the same, then it´s called "brilliantly tactical game" (in order to not talk about how talent-free english and german players are), but when the Greeks do it once, then it´s simply "ugly", sure... MF****rs...!!!
I also like how Greece singlehandedly, by "divine right" so to say, turned the silver-goal-rule into a golden-goal-rule just for their liking... The game was almost immediately over after Greece´s goal...
I agree in all points but one: Georgatos wasn't the best Greek forward at that time... he wasn't even a forward. Georgatos was a LB, playing mostly as a left fullback and occasionally as a left winger, having an excellent pace, good dribbling and sharply accurate crosses, also baring international experience, having performed for Internazionale Milano.
@@PaxAnimi Sorry, my mistake, still he was influential beyond his LB-position. To the point I don´t even recall him being a LB... ;-)
Were Porto really underdogs though? Almost half of that UCL winning side was part of the Portugal golden generation that lost to Greece...
At the time they were, yes. It was a big shock. Not quite the underdogs Greece were but remember the elite squads in Europe at that time. Porto’s squad, whilst very good, wasn’t in the top 10 in Europe at the time.
@@90_plus_1so why they 5 players of Porto would won the Champions League losing the final of The Euro.