Greece Football Blog http://greece.blogsfc.com Euro 2008 Blog from BlogsFC Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:05:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 en Rehhagel blames lack of Passion http://greece.blogsfc.com/rehhagel-blames-lack-of-passion.html http://greece.blogsfc.com/rehhagel-blames-lack-of-passion.html#comments Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:05:33 +0000 admin http://greece.blogsfc.com/rehhagel-blames-lack-of-passion.html After Greece struggled to pose any kind of attacking threat against Sweden and went down 2-0 in their opening game of Euro 2008, coach Otto Rehhagel blamed a lack of passion from the current holders of the European Championships, he said:

“The Greeks didn’t play with heart like they normally do, and the Swedes pushed us hard, some players were unable to play at the level I expected. They tried hard but it wasn’t enough. The first half didn’t go as we planned - we didn’t play high enough up the pitch and then we lost Zlatan Ibrahimovic for a moment, which left us a goal down. We will have to show a tougher side of us in the next match.”

Russia are Greece’s next opponents on June 14th and they will need a result against them as they’ll face Spain who have started the tournament very well four days later.

]]> http://greece.blogsfc.com/rehhagel-blames-lack-of-passion.html/feed Angelos Charisteas Star Player for Greece at Euro 2008 http://greece.blogsfc.com/angelos-charisteas-star-player-for-greece-at-euro-2008.html http://greece.blogsfc.com/angelos-charisteas-star-player-for-greece-at-euro-2008.html#comments Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:26:44 +0000 reddevilrooney http://greece.blogsfc.com/angelos-charisteas-star-player-for-greece-at-euro-2008.html The Greeks will be hoping to stage another surprise European Championship victory in 2008. If this can possibly happen once again is subject to opinion, and it is useless to speculate before the competition kicks off. However, one of the players that will surely have an impact on the results of the Greek squad in Euro ’08 is Angelos Charisteas.

Charisteas

Angelos is a striker and he currently plays in Germany for FC Nuremberg. He was born on the 9th February 1980, meaning that he is currently 28 years old, considered to be the best age for forwards. Angelos has only recently joined Nuremberg (in 2007) and has scored 4 goals in 15 games. For the Greek national team, Charisteas made his debut in February 2001 against Russia. On his debut, he scored a brace. Until today, the striker has scored 18 times in 62 games for Greece. One of these goals was the infamous goal against Portugal in the Euro 2004 final, which sent the home crowd crying and gave Greece the unpredicted victory of Euro 2004. Charisteas scored 3 times in the Euro 2008 qualifiers to help his team qualify automatically with two rounds of matches still to be played. He will surely be one of the faces that will have an impact on whether Greece will repeat the 2004 performance and surprise European football viewers once again.

To help refresh memories of the Portugal vs Greece final:

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