Greece's road to the title was really tough, they faced Portugal twice (including the final), France (the current European champions back then) and Czech Republic (the best team of the tournament)
The Colossus Rhodes 💙🤍 What a tactical masterpiece by Otto Rehhagel to put the Czechs under so much offensive pressure in extra time. That was the key to success. No way, the Greeks can only build walls.
Apart from the Czech national football team,the rest (Portugal,France) were defeated by their own arrogance! The Czechs were serious,deadly and very much respected by all. The only team I felt sorry about.. ! Well,that's sports,no misscalls were made and Greeks won in the court.
Defeated by own arrogance??? So you're telling me that a national team like Portugal, that NEVER had won an euroean cup by the time, was not taking greece seriously, at our own home, with a chance of a life time to win??? We were dead serious about that final... We knew that it was our only chance to win it. We didnt take greece for granted, knowing the fact that greece was the only team that had defeated us during group stage. Sadly we lost. Greece wanted it more and worked harder for it, also having some luck in between. Portugal won the european cup in 2016 the same way greece won in 2004, with hard work and some luck, but none of them were the best team of each tournament. Czech republic deserved to be on the final, in 2004 to be honest
@@hltds We lost it because our coach is / was an ass. He needed that slap right in the first match to change the team, removing the old guys from the team, and using FCPorto players that had "just" won the european champions league. Towards the end of the tournament, those players were tired, we had very intense games against England and the Netherlands, and we just weren't able to counter the greeks and create opportunities that would allow us to win the finals. All in all... I think Scolari wasn't arrogant... just an idiot. In the end, I'm still struggling to understand why he kept Pauleta in the team so many minutes.
@@ruizinho7225 Well, Porto won the Champions League only thanks to the refereeing. In fact, the dragons didn’t even deserve the 1/4 finals because of Paul Scholes clear goal in the match against Manchester United. Then, in the 1/2 finals with Deportivo La Coruna, the referee did not award 2 penalties against Porto. By the way, Deco fell twice again in the Greek penalty area, in the hope that the referee would help, as in the match with Deportivo, but the referee did not help Portugal and you lost fairly.
@@lilavergissmeinnicht Firstly, Porto's victory in champions league was clean (like in 1987 by the way, I hope it stopped hurting eventually). The path to the finals was conquered fairly, and the final itself was won without a hitch. Blame our adversaries for their lack of competence. Either way, there's nothing you can do about it. Secondly, I never said Greece's victory in the euro wasn't just or fair; our coach lacked competence, and it could've been different if he didn't; but it wasn't my intention to diminish the greek's merit in winning, in fact I'm quite happy for them, but even happier for winning the euro in France with a more or less decent coach a decade later.
Golden era physical skills, shitty mental toughness tho - its crystal clear. LOOK at 5:24 when he kick for the ball full force and hit the greek player, he fell to the ground crying like a baby and the guy who got kicked full force didnt even move, he was focused on the game instead eyes going for the ball. Also LOOK at 9:52 their reaction after missing the chance, like miserable, poor, helpless people clutching their heads desperately, look when Greek players lose the few chances they get, they applaude eachother and yeah, keep focused at what they do. I see superstar players STINKING of fear and desperation in the Czech team, and I see noname players struggling like heroes in the Greek team, correct me if Im wrong. Any sport is both physical, and mental. Maybe more mental than physical in all cases, but the mental fight is almost invisible.
@@georgep6495 You realise Nedved was injured after the 5:24? And he didn’t kick him full force, he slowed the movement when he knew he would hit the deffender. How is it crying like a baby you dickhead
Congratulations on your first and most likely only win ever in an important competition. Winning the Euro in 2016 had much more flavour than this one would anyway. I never liked that Scolari guy, I'm actually glad he wasn't the first coach ever winning a competition with the Portuguese National Team.
I'm Greek.. summer of 2004.. I was 25 years old.. before the start of the Euro I made a bet (first and last time I ever did).. 20€ that my favorites, the Czech Republic will win the trophy.. it was a triumph for our team just to qualify and go to Portugal.. our expectations was to score a goal, or to make a win (could you imagine?) after every achievement our team did in the group stage, I always had my eye on that GREAT CZECH team.. Nedved, Poborsky, Barros, Rositski, Koller, Smicer, Jankulofski and more.. we play against France (euro and previous world champions at that period) at the quarter finals.. my thoughts and I guess of every Greek was: "ok, it was a gun run.. time to pack our bags and head back home.. I mean, there's no way.. how could we possibly pass France?" after the miracle of going past the French, we play against "my bet", "my team" the Czechs.. I was like "there's no way, these things happen only in cinema, in Disney films, this is real life.. there's no way".. the Czechs came in giving 100% of their ability.. only team that didn't underestimated us.. we were suffering for 90 straight minutes.. I was like "we are so lucky, but there is really no chance for us, no way.. no, how?" I had this exact attitude through the whole first half of overtime.. I had this exact pessimistic attitude even when we won that last corner kick.. BUT WHEN WE SCORED THAT GOAL.. I KNEW! I swear to any gods there are out there.. ask any Greek you may know.. the time Dellas scored that goal everyone knew.. WE ARE CHAMPIONS! WE'VE JUST WON THE CUP! it was beyond certain (can't really explain it, you have to be Greek to understand).. the final game was the easiest of them all.. everyone was expecting the end to celebrate.. we would have won that final game even if the best players of Europe unite and play against us.. we would have won that final game even if we played against Jesus, Buddha, Mohammad and Dalai Lama.. IT WAS DONE!! the craziest celebrations in Greece was when we went past the Czechs.. because everyone understood/realized that we were European Champions.. the final game with the Portuguese was just the... "coronation"! ps1. it's crazy how in a split second you can go from absolute certainty of failure to absolute certainty of success! (definition of Greece in a sentence) ps2. best 20€ I've ever spend!
I respect the Czechs in fact they took greece seriously and the others(Portugal,France) they acted like greece was a piece of cake but greece ended up beating them and proving them wrong.the czechs fought hard and went all out unlike portugal and france.ggs to the czech republic
You're getting it all wrong. France and Portugal just weren't able to counter the greeks tactics. And not only those teams, Spain and Russia had lots of trouble as well. I think the Czechs were the only team that really manaced the greeks. And that's not a matter of respect. It's just because Czech Republic was the team with the best midfield and attack combined back then. Greece spent the whole match suffering, and when the game reached extra time, Czech players were really tired and Greece took advantage of it. Ironic, but this reminds me of the Euro 2016 final match between France and Portugal. Same story with different intervenients.
@@ruizinho7225 absolutely spot on and im Greek. The Czechs dominated and in extra time after the Greeks weathered the storm they started attacking in extra time and the rest is history. When Dellas scored that goal that was one of the best moments of my life. Better than the final the ecstasy had to be seen to be believed in Greece
Jsem fanouškem České republiky. Je mi velmi líto ztráty. Hráli jsme perfektní fotbal, ale takhle nehrajeme. Řecko vstřelilo gól a zaslouženě vyhrálo. Gratuloval jsem jim. Věděli jsme, že Řekové jsou nebezpeční. Bohužel Rosického břevno rozhodlo, jak bude zápas probíhat. Na inkasovaný gól nikdo nereagoval
Czech Republic "shouldve won". Better team and played better in this game. But they missed too many chances and also unlucky with the shot that hit the crossbar. 🤷♂️ This was Czech Republics greatest generation ever.
Because Collina was assigned at the opening game that was Greece vs Portugal and for some reason there was a rule that didn't allow him to be the ref of the final because it was again between Greece and Portugal, if any of these two teams wasn't in the final, the Collina would be the ref for the game
@@gghice1 well I am greek so I have seen a lot of things about the final. We have a tv special every single year about euro2004 so yeah that's how I know that
Очень жаль чехов, они на том Евро были лучшими по игре, просто огонь, жаль, что благодаря дебильному правилу серебряного гола они проиграли. Вообще чешской сборной вечно не везло в 90-е и нулевые, особенно с этими правилами золотых/серебряных голов. В 1996 году им в финале золотой гол забили немцы. А на ЧМ-2006 году в матче с США травмировали Коллера, а ведь тот матч они выиграли 3-0 с хорошей игрой, но потом что-то не то с ними было с Ганой и Италией. Да и триллер с Турцией был в 2008-м, но там и турки были очень хороши, матч был огненный.
It hurt so much for us. We have a team with brilliant individual like Jankulovski, Baros, Koller and especially Nedved. Yet it was killed by a boring team. Thanks God now Greece has been reduced to a minnow in Europe again.
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They were a organised team very hard to break . We beat Portugal twice drew to Spain,we beat France beat czech this was great football our defence was a wall hit them.on the counter attacks or set pieces. Zhto hellas
Greece's road to the title was really tough, they faced Portugal twice (including the final), France (the current European champions back then) and Czech Republic (the best team of the tournament)
And spain
The Chech Republic was ranking 2nd in FIBA rankings, 2nd only to Brazil.
@@allmightosenseiYeah, Spain had a lot of good players, the only easy rival that Greece faced in the tournament was Russia
most underappreciated achievement in football history. Greece were the ultimate David against Goliath story.
I think it's football is so amazing because ever will be some David vs Goliath.
One of the best moments of my life when Dellas scored that goal. Still tears me up to this day
One of the worst of mine, was a 10 yr old Czech child watching one of the best national squad we ever had get relegated in extra time.
The Colossus Rhodes 💙🤍
What a tactical masterpiece by Otto Rehhagel to put the Czechs under so much offensive pressure in extra time. That was the key to success. No way, the Greeks can only build walls.
Apart from the Czech national football team,the rest (Portugal,France) were defeated by their own arrogance!
The Czechs were serious,deadly and very much respected by all.
The only team I felt sorry about.. !
Well,that's sports,no misscalls were made and Greeks won in the court.
Defeated by own arrogance??? So you're telling me that a national team like Portugal, that NEVER had won an euroean cup by the time, was not taking greece seriously, at our own home, with a chance of a life time to win??? We were dead serious about that final... We knew that it was our only chance to win it. We didnt take greece for granted, knowing the fact that greece was the only team that had defeated us during group stage. Sadly we lost. Greece wanted it more and worked harder for it, also having some luck in between. Portugal won the european cup in 2016 the same way greece won in 2004, with hard work and some luck, but none of them were the best team of each tournament. Czech republic deserved to be on the final, in 2004 to be honest
@@hltds We lost it because our coach is / was an ass. He needed that slap right in the first match to change the team, removing the old guys from the team, and using FCPorto players that had "just" won the european champions league. Towards the end of the tournament, those players were tired, we had very intense games against England and the Netherlands, and we just weren't able to counter the greeks and create opportunities that would allow us to win the finals. All in all... I think Scolari wasn't arrogant... just an idiot. In the end, I'm still struggling to understand why he kept Pauleta in the team so many minutes.
@@ruizinho7225 Well, Porto won the Champions League only thanks to the refereeing. In fact, the dragons didn’t even deserve the 1/4 finals because of Paul Scholes clear goal in the match against Manchester United. Then, in the 1/2 finals with Deportivo La Coruna, the referee did not award 2 penalties against Porto. By the way, Deco fell twice again in the Greek penalty area, in the hope that the referee would help, as in the match with Deportivo, but the referee did not help Portugal and you lost fairly.
@@lilavergissmeinnicht Firstly, Porto's victory in champions league was clean (like in 1987 by the way, I hope it stopped hurting eventually). The path to the finals was conquered fairly, and the final itself was won without a hitch. Blame our adversaries for their lack of competence. Either way, there's nothing you can do about it. Secondly, I never said Greece's victory in the euro wasn't just or fair; our coach lacked competence, and it could've been different if he didn't; but it wasn't my intention to diminish the greek's merit in winning, in fact I'm quite happy for them, but even happier for winning the euro in France with a more or less decent coach a decade later.
Greece, truly they had that Olympic warrior spirits.
They were Spartans 💪
Golden Era Czech 👏
Golden era physical skills, shitty mental toughness tho - its crystal clear.
LOOK at 5:24 when he kick for the ball full force and hit the greek player, he fell to the ground crying like a baby and the guy who got kicked full force didnt even move, he was focused on the game instead eyes going for the ball.
Also LOOK at 9:52 their reaction after missing the chance, like miserable, poor, helpless people clutching their heads desperately, look when Greek players lose the few chances they get, they applaude eachother and yeah, keep focused at what they do.
I see superstar players STINKING of fear and desperation in the Czech team, and I see noname players struggling like heroes in the Greek team, correct me if Im wrong.
Any sport is both physical, and mental. Maybe more mental than physical in all cases, but the mental fight is almost invisible.
+golden era Elada🇬🇷❤🇦🇲
@@georgep6495
You realise Nedved was injured after the 5:24? And he didn’t kick him full force, he slowed the movement when he knew he would hit the deffender. How is it crying like a baby you dickhead
The best team in euro... But Greece 🇬🇷 played smart..
Golden era Greece
Czech republic scored more goals than any other team that tournament, that says something
France couldn't score against Greece, czech Republic couldn't score against Greece, Portugal couldn't score against Greece 🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷
England scored 10 goals too
@@manuelduranc1621 i forgot I even wrote this hahahah
@@giorgoskountourgiannis8230 Greece had just 1 attempt on goal vs the Czechs the first 90 min.. incredible we didn't won that
Greek here. In retrospective, this match was the REAL final of 2004. Respect to the Czechs who were the only side to take us seriously.
Congratulations on your first and most likely only win ever in an important competition. Winning the Euro in 2016 had much more flavour than this one would anyway. I never liked that Scolari guy, I'm actually glad he wasn't the first coach ever winning a competition with the Portuguese National Team.
@@ruizinho7225 you can't know if we will have the talent to lift the trophy again in the future. Don't underestimate anyone.
@@ruizinho7225 like portugal ever won anything important before 2016 lol
Scolari é monstro e vai ser campeão mundial de novo com o Atlético Paranaense...
@@ruizinho7225 trashtugal won't win a trophy again
the only silver goal in history
Thanks for doing this awesome work and content :)
I'm Greek.. summer of 2004.. I was 25 years old..
before the start of the Euro I made a bet (first and last time I ever did).. 20€ that my favorites, the Czech Republic will win the trophy..
it was a triumph for our team just to qualify and go to Portugal.. our expectations was to score a goal, or to make a win (could you imagine?)
after every achievement our team did in the group stage, I always had my eye on that GREAT CZECH team..
Nedved, Poborsky, Barros, Rositski, Koller, Smicer, Jankulofski and more..
we play against France (euro and previous world champions at that period) at the quarter finals.. my thoughts and I guess of every Greek was:
"ok, it was a gun run.. time to pack our bags and head back home.. I mean, there's no way.. how could we possibly pass France?"
after the miracle of going past the French, we play against "my bet", "my team" the Czechs..
I was like "there's no way, these things happen only in cinema, in Disney films, this is real life.. there's no way"..
the Czechs came in giving 100% of their ability.. only team that didn't underestimated us.. we were suffering for 90 straight minutes..
I was like "we are so lucky, but there is really no chance for us, no way.. no, how?"
I had this exact attitude through the whole first half of overtime.. I had this exact pessimistic attitude even when we won that last corner kick..
BUT WHEN WE SCORED THAT GOAL.. I KNEW!
I swear to any gods there are out there.. ask any Greek you may know.. the time Dellas scored that goal everyone knew..
WE ARE CHAMPIONS! WE'VE JUST WON THE CUP!
it was beyond certain (can't really explain it, you have to be Greek to understand)..
the final game was the easiest of them all.. everyone was expecting the end to celebrate..
we would have won that final game even if the best players of Europe unite and play against us..
we would have won that final game even if we played against Jesus, Buddha, Mohammad and Dalai Lama.. IT WAS DONE!!
the craziest celebrations in Greece was when we went past the Czechs.. because everyone understood/realized that we were European Champions..
the final game with the Portuguese was just the... "coronation"!
ps1. it's crazy how in a split second you can go from absolute certainty of failure to absolute certainty of success! (definition of Greece in a sentence)
ps2. best 20€ I've ever spend!
17:03 ΚΑΥΛΑ, 17 ΧΡΟΝΙΑ ΜΕΤΑ ΑΚΟΜΑ ΘΥΜΑΜΑΙ .. ΑΝΑΤΡΙΧΙΛΑ ΣΤΗ ΣΚΕΨΗ ΞΥΠΝΑΝΕ ΜΝΗΜΕΣ
I respect the Czechs in fact they took greece seriously and the others(Portugal,France) they acted like greece was a piece of cake but greece ended up beating them and proving them wrong.the czechs fought hard and went all out unlike portugal and france.ggs to the czech republic
You're getting it all wrong. France and Portugal just weren't able to counter the greeks tactics. And not only those teams, Spain and Russia had lots of trouble as well. I think the Czechs were the only team that really manaced the greeks. And that's not a matter of respect. It's just because Czech Republic was the team with the best midfield and attack combined back then. Greece spent the whole match suffering, and when the game reached extra time, Czech players were really tired and Greece took advantage of it. Ironic, but this reminds me of the Euro 2016 final match between France and Portugal. Same story with different intervenients.
@@ruizinho7225 absolutely spot on and im Greek. The Czechs dominated and in extra time after the Greeks weathered the storm they started attacking in extra time and the rest is history. When Dellas scored that goal that was one of the best moments of my life. Better than the final the ecstasy had to be seen to be believed in Greece
Though Czech lost this match they were the best team
Great professor of football Otto Rehagel
великая сборная маленькой страны!!!
Jsem fanouškem České republiky. Je mi velmi líto ztráty. Hráli jsme perfektní fotbal, ale takhle nehrajeme. Řecko vstřelilo gól a zaslouženě vyhrálo. Gratuloval jsem jim. Věděli jsme, že Řekové jsou nebezpeční. Bohužel Rosického břevno rozhodlo, jak bude zápas probíhat. Na inkasovaný gól nikdo nereagoval
Greece activated FM cheat, big CB Flick At Near Post! Big Sam would be proud of this Greek team, all angel balls!
Cry more
Hong Kong needs to qualify for an Asian Cup first.
3:47 Excellent rugby tackling technique
3:38 Foul by Koller
Heeeelllaaas 🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷
This is why you need big size defenders 👍
Εκσπερματώνω με τα Τσέχικα κλαμμένα μου νιά στο τέλος
I laguht to greek economy 10 years after match
Czech in best form ever
Czech Republic "shouldve won". Better team and played better in this game. But they missed too many chances and also unlucky with the shot that hit the crossbar. 🤷♂️ This was Czech Republics greatest generation ever.
Nedved injuries😢
Я болел за Чехия золотой поколения Чехии
The last silver goal ever
🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷
you should create video match Czech Republic and Darmark Euro 2004. Germany and Croatia, Germany and Turkey Euro 2008. It is very hot title
Amazing
What cleats is Nedved wearing at 6:27 14:04?
As a Greek Czech were really unlucky.But if you won't score goals you will concede
República tcheca tinha um time muito bom
Why wasn't Collina assigned to the final?
Because Collina was assigned at the opening game that was Greece vs Portugal and for some reason there was a rule that didn't allow him to be the ref of the final because it was again between Greece and Portugal, if any of these two teams wasn't in the final, the Collina would be the ref for the game
@@gio_d7_w that sounds cool, thanks, may I ask, how do you know that?
@@gghice1 well I am greek so I have seen a lot of things about the final. We have a tv special every single year about euro2004 so yeah that's how I know that
@@gio_d7_w wow, that's awesome, belated congratulations on the win! ;)
Have anybody the video 2004 with Greece against France?! 🇬🇷👍💙🇬🇷👍
A Baros se lo puede ver en gol la película de Santiago Núñez.
The better team disn't win that day 😅
Such a shame.
bracing inspirational feat
Malakas.....
Having Assassin's Creed vibes here.
Se tivesse var nesse tempo as histórias seria bem diferente 😂
GRÉCIA 17/07/2021
the only exceptional performance on this match was colina
Очень жаль чехов, они на том Евро были лучшими по игре, просто огонь, жаль, что благодаря дебильному правилу серебряного гола они проиграли. Вообще чешской сборной вечно не везло в 90-е и нулевые, особенно с этими правилами золотых/серебряных голов. В 1996 году им в финале золотой гол забили немцы. А на ЧМ-2006 году в матче с США травмировали Коллера, а ведь тот матч они выиграли 3-0 с хорошей игрой, но потом что-то не то с ними было с Ганой и Италией. Да и триллер с Турцией был в 2008-м, но там и турки были очень хороши, матч был огненный.
I read somewhere that collina was not good in. This game... Can someone tell me how and if that's true
It hurt so much for us. We have a team with brilliant individual like Jankulovski, Baros, Koller and especially Nedved. Yet it was killed by a boring team. Thanks God now Greece has been reduced to a minnow in Europe again.
As if czechs are relevant in anything other than ⲣⲟrη these days 😢
oh, Greece at 2004, the famous bus team with 7 defenders. but in the end - don't judge the winners, so...
I mean it worked. They didn’t have the players to play beautiful football, so they played to their strengths. Deal with it.
Expected goals according to Opta statistics for the match Greece vs Czechia :
Greece: 1
Czechia: 0.9
Still crying
4 defenders like all teams do.
Kapsis, Delas, Seitaridis and Fisas.
Keep crying... 🤡🤡
Keep on hellenes
wait to the end to realize commentators are malaka friends..😁 just kidding, only greek I know..
They are Greek what you want to do? They are celebrating the win
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Greece 👍🇬🇷💙👍!!!! 15:27, 15:48🤣 17:17
half of the video is the coaches..is that really necessary? almost unwatchable.
Yes really necessary , for not been tracking by UEFA copyright 🙏
Respekt vor rehal
Don't ever play with GREEK soul.....
All goals)) all one goal)
Hahaha you are so funny idiot you score 0 goals ahhhahaha
Collina respect arbitre
El shimada de la vida real.
Pero con mejor portero
Самый печальный чемпион за всю историю....
Самый ахуительный
Chech not shlem
Tschechien war verdammt schlecht!
Pffff we had to won this euro czech....
Most bad champion europe
Baby don't cryyyyyy.
cry
*Worst Champions of Europe. Use google translator next time.
Again, why Kazakhstan joins the UEFA anyway?
Watch tennis
Antifootball. Horrible
Youre just bitter.
ΝΑΙ,ΑΓΓΕΛΙΚΟΥΛΑ ΜΟΥ,ΝΑΙ!
They still won it
They were a organised team very hard to break . We beat Portugal twice drew to Spain,we beat France beat czech this was great football our defence was a wall hit them.on the counter attacks or set pieces. Zhto hellas
Still hurts?
🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷