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very nice video man.

Excellent recap man...we were watching every game thinking "its the last one, we can't go further surely"...and then we beat the host in the final...ecstatic to have lived that one...and yes...the game against the Czechs was the most difficult...also all Greek goals post group stage were headers...crazy stuff...

Still more Euros than England (who mocked us then)

amazing work mate

lol. I remember this. I was living in Spain and one of my roommates was Portuguese. Good laughs that night...

Still we have euro england has 0

Of course they celebrated. It was absolutely insane for Greece to win that euro. If you're from a country that is bad at football, its beyond dreams to win the euro

Amazing video with some not known to.many people details

Amazing video with some not known details

I am from Greece

And they just won their 4th Euro 🎉🎉🎉

I am Greek and proud of my country! I am proud of the rich and unique history of my homeland, and I consider Greece as the cradle of world civilization, which gave birth democracy, philosophy and science that I am proud to serve in my country as a doctor! After all, the father of medicine was a Greek from Kos and his name is Hippocrates, the one who says that every disease starts first from the soul-brain and then ends up in the body. And I will close by saying this phrase of Hippocrates which accompanies us throughout the history of Medicine starting from the mouth that said it, that is Hippocrates: ''The source of all diseases is sadness''.

im greek i was 17yo back on 2004 and i remember the crying face of Cristiano the fake Ronaldo (cause there is only one Ronaldo R9 the phenomeno ofc) it was more satisfing seeing Cristiano cry than the actual euro cup winning itself for me.

The Greek team ispired the whole world of football,(and not only),with the determination to the target...even adidas "impossible is nothing" moto says much!

They hated us but... Looks like after that mourinho etc etc stole our system right 😂😂 even Fernando Santos

As I Greek I remember the day of the final very well. It was one of the best days in my life. Young, in love and my national team won’t the Euros. I was euphoric

portugal had and has superstar football players wich we greeks NAILLED EM HEHEHE ACCEPT IT FIGO....

Best video for 2004 legacy!

Great video and this is truly one of the best stories in sports history.

Some of the top teams in europe will.not win the euro in this century yet Greece managed to do it! Thats really amazing! Its like winning the loto of a life time!

A great unbiased video. Greetings from Greece. 🫡

In a Greek documentary about the Euro 2004, player Takis Fyssas says that he remembers warming up before the extra time against the Czech Republic in the semifinal. He was laying on the pitch and the backup goalkeeper Fanis Katergiannakis was helping him prep while standing over him. At some point he told him very casually: "Fanis, you know you've got a pretty big nose, right?" Katergiannakis didn't respond, he kind of took the joke and continued helping his teammate. I'll always remember this story cause it shows how this team didn't really have anything to lose or to prove, and how much they actually enjoyed the game, even at a semifinal's extra time, a place where I dare say they didn't even imagine they would be. ❤

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better respect the golden generation of 12 olympian gods either you gotta fear them ... End of story-

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In Greece, the Euro 2004 championship win is jokingly called "Το Πειρατικό" meaning "The Piracy", in reference to the Portugal's opening ceremony and how Greece literally boarded their ship and stole their treasure!

Search panathinaikos and aek in those years and I will realise from where that result came . They had to face olympiakos that controlled referees

I’m part Greek and we were more surprised than anyone.

I think it was the biggest upset in the history of team sports. Just to give some background on the Greek team at that time: Our previous participations in final stage tournaments were in the 1994 World Cup (an absolute embarrassment with 3/3 defeats and 0 goal achieved), in the 1980 Euro (2 defeats, 1 scoreless draw), and that’s it. Our first win in the Euro of 2004 was already a triumph. People were out in the streets celebrating the biggest success ever of our football team. When we were set to play with France I was simply scared (and so were the players). I just wished for a descent performance; not to loose by more than 5 goals. This is how low the bar was. When we passed to the semi final, it started feeling surreal. I literally had the feeling that I was living in a dream, that something beyond logic was happening. Czech was probably the peak of the ecstasy. And when we went to the final, suddenly there was an absurd certainty. I think all Greek fans somehow knew that it could’t end differently. As much as I feel sorry for the amazing teams of Czech and Portugal (well, Spain too), this unforgettable fairy tale on that insane summer just had to happen.

It was offside

Great vid

Akis Zikos (The first Greek player to play in a Champion League final with Marseilles )had an argument with Otto and he didn't join the team. The worst kind of football to watch but it delivered big time. Charisteas gool against France started with an amazing cooperation between Zagorakis and Basinas in the middle of the pitch and a great execution....Greece's most beautiful moment.

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why you don't have 300k subs? that's absurd. Great video

And 2 years after France lost from Portugal, they learned their lesson and won the World Cup. So Greece inspired Portugal win of 2016, and France win of World Cup. So Greece deserves the World cup.

Tha k you for creating such an amazing video of this story. I was exactly 30 years old that summer and it was of course the best summer of my entire life. Greece 🇬🇷 won the Euro, then went on to host the Olympic games with great success. The whole world was Greek that summer. It wasn't Portugal's, or France's, or the Czech Republic', or Spain's fault. The 12 God's of Olympus were there by the Greek player's side all along. In every goal post and in every corner. 🇬🇷 It had to be won by Greece. 🏆

Pep guardiola is a tactical genious. His management skill totally different than other managers. ❤❤🎉🎉

Long live Hellas long live the Patrida! 5000+ years of history this is just something we are used to! Hero’s of the world, cradle of the universe.

I lived in Athens back then and every win had people out on the streets celebrating all night. It was a magical time.

Greece was much better in every position than Portugal.Even Figo and Rui Costa could not compete Karagounis at that time.They were playing like veterans...

Greece's performance was frowned on at the time because it was very defensive, the frustrating thing was they never got tired, people expected a team that plays without the ball so much and to play defensively as they did to be very tired by the end of the game, it was a rational expectation as it happened very often especially in FA cup games where you might see a lower league team play a Premiership club and put on a valiant effort until the gap in fitness levels showed itself, higher skilled teams would play with the ball forcing the opposition to run a lot more especially the teams that chose to hoof the ball up the pitch instead of trying to play out. But for some reason Greece in 2004 didnt fit that mould they carried on playing the same way and at the end of the game when they are supposed to have far less energy for playing such an energy sapping fashion the opposite happened with Greece looking like the team with more energy. Even against the heavily doped superstars of world football... The reason Greece won in 2004 was because of EPO, everything after took a smaller slice of the overall cake regardless of how legitimate their efforts were and the luck they got along the way and how doped up the other teams were, this was a talented hard working team who could play as a team as well as anyone but wouldnt last 45 minutes without EPO.

Sama year Iraq in middle of the war with US went to 2004 Greece Olympic semi final !!! ,that’s was the deal made behind the door

Strange thing is that when we won this tournament everyone over the internet was eager to humiliate us, and I never got why everyone was so determined to do it (now I do know). Is there a most beautiful thing than to win against the odds, with honesty and with the things (the qualities) you have? The Greeks never faked a penalty... They played with honesty and with what they had. Greece never was and she's still not a football country like Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, England, Germany, etc (notice that from the countries previously mentioned, England never won a Euro, and the Netherlands won it only once, with this magical team they had in the late 1980s that included Ruud Gullit, Marco van Basten, etc). So, when *you have to go to war against super powers* you fight with everything you've got. Everyone thought they knew what Greece had to fight with, and the fact that this team had achieved many wins and draws against football super powers just went completely under the radar. This was our secret weapon: none, and I mean *NONE* respected this team; none even noticed and evaluated what this team managed to do the years prior the 2004 EURO tournament. None ever managed to see that this team besides talent had something more that was Rehacles best achievement: to bond these players and to forge them into a team. No team has ever won anything without this quality. So the Greeks threw themselves into this battle and against all odds they came out winners. And this is, hilariously, yet another thing everyone missed reading: the Greeks in their long and remarkable history, they have repeatedly done exactly this: they have repeatedly won against all odds. What, you dont believe me? Ask Darius... or his son Xerxes. The Persians, the super duper mega power of their time, lost three times in a row from the Greeks: Marathon, Salamis, Plataea and yet what they never managed to forget (them and the rest of the World through space and time) was their bitter win over just 300 Greeks --> Thermopylae.

Bravo, Greece. We love you, mates.

I forgot about Darius Vassell

Thanks bro!!!! For reminding us!!!!

They mock greece and then they copy greece..that is the lesson.

Actually Greece played very differently in the first and second matches against Portugal. In the first, they gave the ball to Portugal and tried to beat them by counter-attacks while in the final, because they knew that the Portuguese would know their play, they changed it up and played much more aggressively. In a recent interview Charisteas said so and he also said that they played a lot with the psychology of the opposing teams in order to gain the advantage. Portugal also had double the anxiety in the final than the first game which gave the Greeks more confidence

Very well made and everything well said!

I'd say that this is a testament of the way outside forces like media, sponsors and other parties negatively work for the sport. i read comments about stars, underdogs and what not but the real signs of quality exist everywhere and overlooked. Inside the best leagues and worst alike i may add. i look back and see dominating forces like Germany, England and Italy with many great legends , legendary clubs, intimidating national teams and elite leagues, That at the same time have historically very small percent of players doing well on clubs away from their nation despite being talented. Same time you can see a player from a nobody team getting signed in a reknowed club and beiing the best player there. This is not because he learned better football there but rather because he is selling better there and he receives the gift of self confidence and recognition. Greece of 2004 had players of top class quality and even left out or used little more good players like Lyberopoulos, Tsiartas, Georgatos, Antzas, Stoltidis and more. Most of them never saw the light of world fame like many other players through out the world like Chinas legend Lee Wai Tong (1260 goals) or even Fernando Peyroteo from Portugal who won 11 titles with sporting (331 goals in 197 games 12 years career!!!).. the true surprise is how wrong we see things and luck has very little to do within 90 minutes in front of your actual performance. Imagine getting awarded 10 penalties in a match and lose them all. One would say bad luck but for whom? The one that missed them or the one thatallowed 10 penalties? And then did they randomly missed them or the keeper/fans pressure did a better job? A whole tournament is a lot of time and effort from all sides to be considered a fluke and we need to learn more on how to properly judge what's really in front of us. Thanks for your video @90+1 Football.