dark_horse Posted July 9, 2008 Share Posted July 9, 2008 According to Sport24.gr, EPO has arranged an international friendly in Athens on the 19th of November to face the world champions Italy. :tup: http://www.sport24.gr/html/ent/153/ent.242153.asp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akritis_1944 Posted July 9, 2008 Share Posted July 9, 2008 Excellent news. I am pretty sure that EPO negotiated this match and did not consult with Otto. Otto's history was to usually (with some excpetions) play cream-puff matches against the lesser teams (i.e Lichtenstein, Armenia, Cyprus, Kazakhstan, Hungary). Great to be playing the reigning World Champs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TheLegend Posted July 9, 2008 Share Posted July 9, 2008 um... why... are they stupid? first off we will lose because only we are capable of losing to a team who cheats to win... 2nd... why not have friendlies NOW IDIOTS and lets get a new team ready.. popo... running on greek time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genome Posted July 9, 2008 Share Posted July 9, 2008 Fifa.com only mentions the Slovakia game, so the Italy game is probably not an official friendly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TheLegend Posted July 10, 2008 Share Posted July 10, 2008 If we play italy for no reason all we will do is look like fools. We need preparation friendlies. We are not USA. We dont need to scrimmage every big team in the world for no reason because we dont play barbados to qualify. We actualy play some proven opposition Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
as5664 Posted September 16, 2008 Share Posted September 16, 2008 Well, it's now official: 18 November friendly, venue undisclosed. The info is all on FIFA.com :gr: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paxiotis7 Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 Looking forword to this... I have a lot of Italian friends. The ethniki better not let me down :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodoj Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 What about me? I live in Italy (Brindisi). The one thing about Italians is that they like their Greek cousins and the una fatsa, una ratsa phrase is automatic when they find out I'm Greek. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PAO_OR_DEATH Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 a battle of the classics WORLDS, we all know in history Greece came out on top (has any one heard of a great italian philosopher......I think not) I really Hope the ETHNIKI puts the Italians in their place..... ZITO I ELLAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genome Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 and the una fatsa, una ratsa phrase is automatic Everytime Italy comes up in a conversation my dad can't help it to yell that out ... :rolleyes: :LOL: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PAO_OR_DEATH Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 what does una fatsa una ratsa mean??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genome Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 The whole thing goes "Italia i Greco, una fatsa una ratsa" (at least that's how my dad yells it :D) ... It means (afaik) "Italians and Greeks, one face one race". (I think only the "una" is Italian in that phrase :D) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PAO_OR_DEATH Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 i know a few people who would beg to differ with that statement....either way it will be nice to see greece play a real team for once Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clover22 Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 The Italians love us and they've copied us for centuries; what do you expect? :LOL: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drakos13 Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 they even copied our style of play :P Some Italians do look shockingly Greek, even some northern ones (the northern italians ones that dont look germanic that is) Where is the game? Please be Milan! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loup Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 Italians, Western Greeks same thing :LOL: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olympiakara10 Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 Isn't a part of Italy a former part of ancient Greece? Or am I mistaken? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellene Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 You may want to send the following two links to all your so called italian mates...i am only being sarcastic, i have plenty of italian friends, you see here in australia we are two of the larger ethnic groups and we have a lot of fun putting the boot into each other....as one of mates states "let me guess, italian stallions, did they get that name because they ran so fast from the greeks during world war 2?" as the turks took constantinople in 1453, the best and brightest greek minds fled to venice and florence leading to the renaissance (re-birth or rediscovery of ancient greek ideals) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Graecia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_sch...the_Renaissance zhto h ellatha :LOL: :LOL: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DUDE Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 Isn't a part of Italy a former part of ancient Greece? Or am I mistaken? Lots of Italy is... Sicily (where they still speak an Italian version of Greek known as Greco), Napoli (Nea-poli), etc. Greeks and Italians are very similar culturally. Our attitudes, ancient and modern culture, mannerisms, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genome Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 Italians, Western Greeks same thing :LOL: Hehe true, Kefalonia's dialect has enough words that come from Italian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Euro2004 Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 They're probably more like us than any other people in the world, that doesnt mean i don't want us to trounce them by 5 goals! :box: :gr: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clover22 Posted September 21, 2008 Share Posted September 21, 2008 Well you know Sicilians don't really consider themselves Italian, they consider themselves Sicilian first. And they are indeed descended from the Greeks that were living there in antiquity. So they really aren't Italian and a lot of northern Italians will tell you so. They seem to have this division; its not a unified a country as some people may think! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clover22 Posted September 24, 2008 Share Posted September 24, 2008 By the way thanks for the links Hellene. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drakos13 Posted September 28, 2008 Share Posted September 28, 2008 Well you know Sicilians don't really consider themselves Italian, they consider themselves Sicilian first. And they are indeed descended from the Greeks that were living there in antiquity. So they really aren't Italian and a lot of northern Italians will tell you so. They seem to have this division; its not a unified a country as some people may think! sicilians are sicilians.....they are not just Greek decendendant.....theres also the romans, normans, and plenty more etc etc that came on to the island they conisder themselves a mixed people today....But in antiquity they were overun by Greek settlers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick99 Posted September 30, 2008 Share Posted September 30, 2008 a battle of the classics WORLDS, we all know in history Greece came out on top (has any one heard of a great italian philosopher......I think not) I really Hope the ETHNIKI puts the Italians in their place..... ZITO I ELLAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Seneca, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, etc. Basically the Stoic school of philosophy is Roman in origin.Many places in Italy used to be part of 'Greater Greece', ie. Greek colonies in ancient times, Syracuse where Archimedes lived, among others. More recently, middle ages onward, several areas of what is modern Greece were under Venetian rule, eg. Cephalonia, Chania, and many other places in the Peloponnese that alternated between Ottoman rule and Latin. Lots of Italian influence in some of these places, cuisine, art, culture, architecture. Greeks and Italians have influenced each other for centuries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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