Dutch Eagle

@Polikastano That is only for the third placed countries in order to determine the best number 3 that will also be qualified automatically as the group of Portugal, Serbia, Denmark, Armenia and Albania has only 5 countries and the other groups 6. Therefore all matches against number six of the groups do not count.

We scored more goals today (4) than the other nine matches (3) together..........

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http://resources.fifa.com/mm/document/fifafacts/r%26a-wr/52/00/97/fs-590_10e_wrpoints_english.pdf Greece could use every point because if -AND I SAY IF- they qualify for Russia 2018 than it could just make that difference of being put in pot 2 or 3 (pot 1 are the usual contenders like Germany, Argentina and Brazil; pot 4 are mostly the Asian and African countries). Just before WC 2018 there will be the draw for EURO 2020 with FIFA ranking as the base for seeding procedures.

The girls unfortunately lost 0-3 after a 0-0 HT.

This is a Greek Classico. League table or winning moods or playing well or bad in the weeks before do not matter at all. Would love to see Berbatov making the winning goal in order Toumba to explode. Think there will be some ceremonies for our six fans who died in the vale of Tembi on 4-10-1999 in a bus/coach-crash.

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.