Dutch Eagle

Another shock: Host England are already knocked out of the tournament after looking to Wales and Australia. Their last game in pool A is just for statistics.

http://www.novasports.gr/web-tv/on-demand-player/video/26303/atromitos-paok-1-2-90/

Great win. Good for the moral for the game against Dortmund. Maybe Dortmund will be with their minds at Bayern Munich. They play them next sunday.

http://www.novasports.gr/web-tv/on-demand-player/video/26302/atromitos-paok-1-1-72/

Are you enjoying your stay in Greece and your visits to PAOK and Toumba, Pontos?

Pool A Australia England Wales Fiji Uruguay Pool B South Africa Samoa Scotland Japan United States Pool C New Zealand Argentina Tonga Georgia Namibia Pool D France Ireland Italy Canada Romania

In England the 2015 WC started yesterday. England defeated Fiji with 35-11 in the openingmatch.

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Are there still (or again) players with Greek roots in the NFL?

Just read an interesting article in a Dutch newspaper. The most valuable team in the world are Dallas Cowboys. Value EUR 3,540,000,000.00. (American football is probably hot and as a person from the old continent I can not understand that; sorry guys!) In fact there are only three soccer-teams in the top 10: Real Madrid, FC Barcelona and Manchester United. And one basketball-team. Full top 10: 1. Dallas Cowboys 3,54 billion 2. Real Madrid 2,88 3. New England Patriots and New York Yankees 2,83 5. FC Barcelona 2,79 6. Manchester United 2,74 7. Washington Redskins 2,52 8. New York Giants 2,48 9. San Francisco 49ers 2,44 10. Los Angeles Lakers and New York Jets 2,30

FT 83-72 Spanoulis 19 pts Printezis 16 pts Calathis 12 pts Bourousis 11 pts & 8 reb Zisis 10 Koufos 10

Georgia - Greece 68-79 Calathis 19 pts Koufos 12 Antetokounbo 12 Zisis 11 Bourousis 5 rebounds

MD 1 GEO - NED 72-73 FYR - GRE 65-85 CRO - SLO 80-73 Surprise win for the Netherlands as they played their first game in a eurobasket after 25 years (again in Zagreb like the last time) and managed to stand the last attacks of Georgia by grabbing the rebound after the last missed shot.

85-65 win. Printezis 18 pts. Bourousis 16 pts Koufos 11 pts Spanoulis 10 pts Koufos 11 rebounds Bourousis 10 rebounds

79-57 with 2.39 to go. Victory secured.

The game will be live broadcasted in The Netherlands (Sport1 Voetbal, pay TV) and Belgium (een, the public broadcasting cooperation).

For those living in The Netherlands ( though I only know Nikitas is): The game on Thursday will be broadcasted by Sport1 Select (the Dutch Nova).

1Q 23-16 2Q 15-15 ------------- HT 38-31

The new jerseys will probably be available around september 13th.

The counter today says: 7,700

The first time I went to Toumba was October 3rd 1990. I was student law at Rotterdam University and got the opportunity to study abroad. I chose Athens. I wanted to look how life was in Greece other than in summer. As there was no schedule of starting lessons at the end of September I went to some cousins in Thessaloniki to visit them. I saw a friend of mine and he told me about the UEFA-cup match agains Sevilla. So we went. Kick-off 8.30 pm. Entered the stadium 6.30 pm because otherwise we could get disappointed. Gamo tis atmosferes. I could not believe my eyes. This is where I wanted to be more often. The game itself was not a very good one. After the promissing 0-0 in Sevilla a victory was al we needed and avoiding to recieve a goal. 0-0 after extra time. So penalties to decide the game. Unfortunatelly we lost. As my friend said. Best players must not take the penalties because there is too much pressure. And he was right. Our best players missed. The hardworking defenders scored. But we gave them an applaus as heroes. Later on in my life I must have attended another 15 games in Toumba. The past 8 years with my wife and kids. All dressed in the rige fanela!