The EPIC Story of How Greece Won EURO 2004
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- Опубликовано: 17 июн 2024
- The epic tale of how Greece won EURO 2004, and how Portugal's loss in the final inspired their greatest success 12 years later.
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The greek player Zagorakis said while on a podcast said that during that final Pauleta told him something like " If i was greek i would be ashamed to win like this " to which Zagorakis replied " you are the only ones that cant talk you had 2 chances to beat us in your home and you didnt " , still Greece is the only international winner to win every match without penalty shoot-outs
Really? That’s an incredible story 😂
@@shatterfall_hunted8236 Pauleta was butt hurt , he shouldn't even started the initial 11 since for Portugal he mostly failed to score , should been Nuno Gomes instead of him
Ashamed to win? If that's the case, it's more embarassing to lose to a team twice in a single tournament that he considers so inferior. Well done Greece, you made history and your country proud. No Greek will ever forget summer 2004.
There's no "bad" win.
There's win...
Well funny coming from a Portugues player. After 12 years Portugal's only trophy in 2016 came in similar fashion and the thing is they had a way easier path than Greece playing with Wales etc to reach a final where they were much worse and lucky to win. Greece played and won against very tough competition in 2004.
Just a reminder Greece won it without a single penalty shootout which is insane for such team
Great point!
I was a conscript at the Bundeswehr at the time. Naturally, after Germany had been kicked out in the group phase, everyone in Germany supported Greece due to Rehagel. And the bar my platoon we went to in the evenings... was a Greek tavern. Ouzo and Sambucca flowed quite freely there as Greece won game after game... Man. What a time. Twenty years ago already.
The Best month of my life ...and for millions other Greeks too !!!....It was BETTER THAN LSD ....IT WAS REAL !
Huge respect to Greece and Otto, that man pulled some miracles
That goal vs France is one of the most beautiful plays I've ever seen. What a cross, and a heck of a header.
Also the backspin touch after the sombrero over Lizarazu to set the ball for the cross
@@antoinecringemann thats exactly it...Newspapers wrote Z Z Z not Zidane Zagorakis....
I still remember that awful guardian article about Greece winning in 2004. Media were super pissed the underdog won.
Very strange too. It’s a great story! I know people wanted Czechia and the English media were also bitter because we blew an amazing opportunity. But how could you get so angry about Greece winning? It’s amazing!
@@90_plus_1for British leaf we speak about...
I was 14 back then and i remember that the final against Portugal was merely a typical procedure in most of our minds. As soon as that Dellas goal went in against the Czechs , we celebrated like we won it because after that, nothing could change the inevitable which was to lift the cup a few days later.
Yeah. Portugal vs. Czechia would have been a great game also. I think Rui Costa said he wanted to play the Czechs in the final because that Portugal team played better when they were scared.
@@90_plus_1 so true
Best documentary about Greece 2004. Eyxaristo 😊
Thank you!
Yes, it's very difficult to find any English language videos on RUclips about this amazing team.
You won my subscription when you did the "background check" for the greek team. Most people believe it was just pure luck (luck had a part as always in life) but fail to see that our players, although not well known, were established in their clubs, playing in champions league every year. Having celebrated victories over big clubs in Europe had given them the confidence that they're not inferior to other players.
Thats why football is the king of team sports...everything can happen in a single game...Greece won that fair and square with unbelievable tactics teamwork and accurate exploit of their opponent's disadvantages and most of the world didnt know that 17 of the 22 players of the greek team were playing in the top 5 championships of Europe such as England, Germany, Portugal, Italy.....well done GREECE
As i lived in a Portuguese-dominated area of London at the time, I personally found it hilarious when Greece won, and that night, I slept like a baby....
Otto was an ELITE coach
Yeah I wish I had time to go into more detail on him
Very nice documentary! The accuracy on the details, the narration, the editing, everything!
I still get emotional remembering those days, it was like living a dream. Something that you couldn't even imagine happening was just developing infront of your eyes!
This is what football is about!
As a Greek fan, great respect for the Portugese, on what they have achieved on club and international level. They are real sports. They were very respectful at a bitter time for them in 2004 and as they were never poor loosers, they have became constant international winners ever since..
The best analysis i 've ever watched in RUclips about Greece 's triumph in EURO 2004. Thank you very much!
Thank you!
I am a Greek and I was about 16 years old then. People criticised the way we played cause they were afraid that more teams would try to play anti-football to win. Many used our style, the question is, why didn't they succeed?? Because it is hecking hard! It requires a lot of discipline, teamwork, comradery and team spirit which is very hard to achieve. This team had something special. For just one thing I feel bad about that Euro. About that Chech team. They really deserved this cup as well. No other team, not even Portugal deserved it more than Greece or Chech.
Correct. Haters gonna hate. To date I don't understand the flak Greece receives for actually winning. "Boring football" when they use it, but when Portugal does it in 2016 it is suddenly a-ok. Hypocritical. Greece went up against pretty much the most serious European opposition they could have faced in 2004 and they won. Without ever going to penalties, one might add.
This was my first Euros, and I loved how Greece beat Portugal. Twice. At home.
The sheer quality of this video is unbelievable. Keep telling stories of the beautiful game. You will rise up fast. Please also cover Leicester City and Germany 7-1 Brazil
An inclusive retrospective, kudos from an "eye witness" from Athens Greece !
Another great video from the self-proclaimed GOAT of football content on YT
Very accurate video. 2 years ago England -Greece 2-2 was not by accident
Many people don't know that Greece faced Portugal also in a friendly match 20 days before euro and the score was 1-1.
giving those saxons every foul in the area beckham so he can score....
As a Bulgarian,much love for our south Balkan brothers,you were amazing,what a times,what a era of football,1998 to 2006 was next level!
Take care all!❤
They discribed Greece as the only underdog which everyone want to see it get beaten , while according to xgoals system , in all knockout matches , Greece did have the biggest chance for scoring game's goal and in the same time it was impossible for anybody to create big threaten against Nikopolidis ( Greece's GK ) . Even againg Czech Republic , the best game's chance was for Greece ( Dellas' Silver Goal ) and the Xgoals difference was 0,9 -1 for Greece , while ball possesion was only 52% - 48% for Czechs . Greece was indeed an underdog , but an underdog which was the best team in the tournament .
Hey, I’d love to see xG stats for individual games of that tournament. Where do you find them?
xG is a very flawed metric to judge performance. Greece’s goals were very high xG chances and the defensive nature meant that Greece didn’t concede high xG chances… but also very true that Greece were not as horrible or negative as the media made it sound.
i rather watch greece 2004 than 2024 england. atleast greece know what they doing lol
Congratulations on this excellent presentation - fantastic work - deep in analysis and as to "why" Greece was ready and mature to achieve this huge feat.
This was such an impressive run by Greece. One for the ages surely.
Hello from Greece I am proud about 2004 and sorry for other teams we had great players see their carriers after
Thank you for this! I am an American of Greek decent on my mother's side. My dad was a US Air Force officer stationed near Athens when i was 3 years old. I remember keeping up with the Greek international team and being amazed by their run to the championship.
I try to find good content online about this team but there's shockingly very little on RUclips.
Thanks for this video, it really provided alot of context for me. I am still so proud to be Greek, and that run in the Euros gave me a bit to crow about 😂
Hellas! 🇬🇷
Greece was doing back then what Real Madrid are doing now year in year out. Score 1 more goal than the opponent is the name of the game
This is different
Just to set record straight: you haven't given Greece their dues in their games against France and the Czechs. Greece took the game to France in the first half and had all the chances. And the Czechs 'chance after chance' was a random smashing volley off the bar in opening minutes, and Koller's chance near the end of the 90. Everything else was a half chance and they were nullified. Then, extra time was owned by Greece who had 3 chances within 15 minutes, with the pressure causing the corner that would win it. The game never restarted.
France game Greece did attack a lot in the first half, yes. But no, the Czech game they conceded a lot of chances and were very lucky. Not all chances were shown in the video. Call them half chances if you want to, but there were a few chances that definitely could have been scored… the game also did restart very briefly.
@@90_plus_1The Greeks dominated the Overtime with THEEE Chances in 15 Minutes & the winning goal.
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The Czechs' gameplay gave you a quite tricky impression of dominance and a FALSE impulse of labouring 'many great chances'...
Yet, besides the fact that I also saw that game (and still have it on tape in full length), I rather than on impressions would rely on hard data (OPTA stats): xgoals Czechs 0.9, xgoals Greeks 1.0 - even ball possesion can't provide any proof of czech 'dominance', as it was Cz 52% - Gr 48%.
In comparison, in the game France vs Greece, where you admit a better greek performance and a more balanced game, the xgoals were France 1.0 and Greece 0.6!
As an overall performance, the Greece 2004 defence worked out an outstanding 5.2% goals/goal chances ratio (that means their opponents had to produce an average of 19 goal chances to score 1 goal against Greece). This is one of the best ever values in football tournaments (WC & EC) history. Calling all this just 'luck' is a quite superficial approach and historically inaccurate.
Thanks anyway.
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if only there was a clear way to compare the quality of chances created! 🙄
xGoals
Czech R. 0,9 : 1 Greece
I swear every Brit that makes a video about Euro 2004 has to include some pretentious bs by the most unbearable journalists in the world (a.k.a. the English) about how the footballing world "cried" when Greece won. Give me a break, anyone who loves football loves an underdog story and this was the ultimate one!
Class video!
Thank you for creating this video! 🙏
There many thinks that many people didnt know...greek players were not that famous just because they are greeks but as talents many of them they were high level players...tsartas was one of the best left footer playmakers...nikopolidis was a great goalkeeper and better than the most of the keepers in that euro.And i want to remind that they were not in the greek squad many talented players like georgatos and zikos who was in monaco at the 2004 ch league final
In retrospect, 2004 was football's peak as a sport. Im not saying that because im Greek, but every time you see "underdogs" winning or having a fighting chance against the big names and the favourites, that means that the player base is so good througout the sport, and not just a few rich teams that have all the good players. So considering 2004 saw so many "lesser" teams winning titles all over Europe, its safe to say that this was the year football reached its peak as a sport.
Remember how i hated the super defensive style the Greeks played at the time, but they won the competition fairly only with their qualities, discipline, efficiency and solidarity, true spartans.
Pauleta was so under rated
Griechenland hat das gemacht was mit diesem Team möglich war, die meisten Spieler waren International erfahren, keine Superstars, für viele hält Unbekannte Spieler, aber insgesamt hat Otto Rehhagel daraus ein Topteam gebildet, aus einer Starken Defensive geschlossen mitzuspielen, schaut euch nochmal die Spiele an, in jedem Spiel außer das mit Russland hat Griechenland Phasen Souveränität bewiesen, schaut euch den Pass von Tsiartas zum Tor gegen Spanien an. Der Mann ist ein Magier am Ball für die meisten bis dahin unbekannt.
this one is a banger!!
Thanks mate!
A team that played to its strengths, scored in every single game of the tournament (some goals were great vs Portugal both times and vs France) and never needed penalties. But sure - call it anti-football.
I recall that Greece team was easily beaten by Brasil at the 2005 confederations
How they won the Euros was a shocker. Scolari should have played Christiano as a striker.
Greece beat him twice and that should have been alarming
Yeah he got a lot wrong that tournament, as many Portuguese fans pointed out at the time… Scolari’s career after that 2002 World Cup probably tells us that his success with Brazil was mostly down to the players.
Greece beat Portugal 5 times in a span of 4 years back then. Greece also beat Spain inside Spain with 10 Men & went 1 1/2 Years undefeated 👍🏻
2004 was literally a turning point for both nations, Greece did the impossible but ever since that tournament became irrelevant whilst Portugal went the opposite way and became a strong footballing nation
@@mainsmain Portugal was already a strong Footballing Nation. You must understand that this is all they focus on, I never hear Portugal in any other sports. They also have the Brazilian Pool where they pick out players & the Great Spanish Pool & Schools as Neighbors. We lose A LOT of potential Footballers to other Sports.
Greece actually did pretty well! They qualified for 1 Euro & 2 World Cups after that. Even progressing to the next stage in one of them. After that, however, with the Economic Crisis & Corruption of Greek Football, they are now back in a Dark Ages.
However, this year is better for Greek Football despite their extremely unlucky NT.
Olympiakos won the Uefa Conference League
Olympiakos also won the Uefa Youth League
Better days ahead for Greek Football I think. As far as accomplishments in Football, most of the smaller European Nations cannot even dream to have the Runs & Trophies that Greece has had for Club Teams & the NT.
In all other Sports, I won’t even mention. They have some of thee Winningest Multi-Sports Clubs in the World. In all Team Sports & Individual Sports 🇬🇷👍🏻
@@90_plus_1 Obviously... I mean losing with that squad would have been more impressive than winning... the man had Cafu, Roberto Carlos, Gilberto Silva, Ronaldinho, Ronaldo and Rivaldo in the team... seriously... if you can't win with that then you should have your coaching license revoked...
The year 2004 is absolutely full of surprises in world football. In South America, there was a Columbian minnow named Once Caldas, who made an international headline with their historic Copa Libertadores win after beating two Brazillian giants (Santos and next year's tournament winner Sao Paulo) and even beating the indomitable Boca Juniors team in the Final itself on penalties. All of these happened thanks to overwhelmingly negative football, much like the Greece national football team.
Awesome! Did not know this. It seemed every country had an underdog story in some form or another.
Beatifully made vid!!!
back2back bangers
I am Greek and I was in Athens Syntagma central square when this happened. We were all speechless that our team played and won. Bad football? No. Great defence yes. Very lucky? Yes. Winners. It was the first time in history that we saw the global stars that we all admired so much but could not care less because our national team made us dream. And came true !!
00:44 "where they lost to Spain..." Eh, yeah, the Greeks lost 1-0 to Spain because the referee somehow missed giving not one, but THREE penatlies to the Greeks! Anyone who watched the game knows it, one of the largest robberies ever.
great vid! 👏
Thank you 🙏
Santos was elected to be the next coach of Greece because of his presence in greek clubs, mostly AEK Athens then PAOK and Panathinaikos. He consider Greece his second home and was the only one to be respected like Rehaghel. After Santos left, Greece fail to qualify to Euro or world cup :(
great video
Just discovered ur channel, hope you can post more and in 15+ minutes! Love listening to football analysis vids, especially before bed to fall asleep
Thanks mate! There’s plenty more to come 🫡
Fantastic video congratulations
Excellent video
Back in the Day the papers wrote Z Z Z not Zidane...Zagorakis...after how he let Lizarazu run under the ball and nearly without looking at the ball delivered that perfect assist to Charisteas trademark header. And the fact that tons of team copied their playstyle also in the countries leagues should just show the jealous non football knowallers....what strategy can do....And for example having italy playing for decades catenagio should stop those comments of defensive fooball is dumb....the offense may win the game...but the league or cup is won by the defense.
How is it possible that the Sombrero Zagorakis treated Lizarazu before the assist vs France is not in the video?
Proud of being Greek .....
4/7/2004 .... I will forget this date
Where football logic ends the greek game begins. All Hail King Otto..
You forgot to mention that in the game against France we stood eye to eye with them missing some great chances. They didn't just dominate us like you made it sound
I'm Greek and I will say this, both the losses to Greece for Portugal are the GKs fault. Obviously, lack of finishing, etc. are to blame also but the biggest fault goes to the GK. First game, he gives up a very soft goal to Karagounis, should have been saved from that distance and it being a soft shot, instead it set the tone of their downfall in that game. Final, on that corner, he came out and was lost in no man's land behind a bundle of players, Charisteas headed it down the middle, had the GK help his position, might have been able to push it away for a save.
Also, for people who want to talk s*** about Greece, they are the only ones to score a goal in every game, didn't go to PKs, beat the host in the first match, beat them again after hearing how they were going to get revenge on us, how the critics were talking trash.
❤❤❤❤ the memories
Amazing video 😍
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it
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We were clearly better than France, we didn't score "suddenly". They only lost 2 important chances after our goal.
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The difference between Portugal losing in 04 and France losing in 2016 is that 04 was tragic because it was the end of the golden generation…France was just at the beginning and they only got better!
englishmen talking about ugly greek football while they have one of the most expensive squads and play the most boring football lol,great video and narration though and it was nice seeing the portuguese side of the story being told,keep on
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12:50 Greece draw first blood from Ronaldo (the 1st time he´d cry), and turned him from a young age into the fanatic beast we all know... Every happy event has its own dark sides...
0:46 Georgatos, a star in Greece, and the best forward of the country ever, didn´t listen to the german coach´s advices (cause he was very arrogant,) and so, the best forward in Greece´s history was thrown out, and missed Euro2004... ;-) ;-) ;-) No coach before has ever dared to throw out such a star...!!!
11:46 Yeah, when England itself since 100 years, or Germany, do exactly the same, then it´s called "brilliantly tactical game" (in order to not talk about how talent-free english and german players are), but when the Greeks do it once, then it´s simply "ugly", sure... MF****rs...!!!
I also like how Greece singlehandedly, by "divine right" so to say, turned the silver-goal-rule into a golden-goal-rule just for their liking... The game was almost immediately over after Greece´s goal...
I agree in all points but one: Georgatos wasn't the best Greek forward at that time... he wasn't even a forward. Georgatos was a LB, playing mostly as a left fullback and occasionally as a left winger, having an excellent pace, good dribbling and sharply accurate crosses, also baring international experience, having performed for Internazionale Milano.
@@PaxAnimi Sorry, my mistake, still he was influential beyond his LB-position. To the point I don´t even recall him being a LB... ;-)
Poutsa sti premiera kai sto teliko....
Some...meaning bitter entitled English media because of England's failures.
GREECE STARTED AN ERA, WHEN THE EUROPEAN (NATIONAL TEAMS) FOOTBALL IS DOMINATED BY THE POOREST SOUTH COUNTRIES FOR THE LAST TWO DECADES.......
I'm hoping with all my heart that turkey wins the Euros. I love every player on the team,i like Montella and this year three miracles already happened (Atalanta winning theyr first trphy in 63 years and theyr first european thropy,Leverkusen winning two trophies and going unbeaten and A greek team winning a European thropy). Come on turkey🙏. Love from italy
It would be incredible
forza Italia
@@Chinaziland honestly i don't see us winning the tournament,we got absolutely thrashed by Spain, Donnarumma saved us 8 times,the game should have ended 4 or 5-0 and we didn't take a single shot on goal. Everything was a mess,the tactic and the players
Copying the Greeks, like always!!
Why does youtube keep recommending this to me when they know damn well I'm portuguese ffs😭😭😭
My apologies. I hope you enjoy the happy ending though! 2016 was a great time for you guys
Portugal wasn't favourite either before the competition, they basically lost every friendly matches
Not quite true. They lost to Italy and Spain, drew with England and Sweden. They also beat Brazil and won the majority of games. Funnily enough they drew to Greece also in a friendly a year before the tournament. They weren’t favourites - but by the time they beat England everyone expected them or the Czechs to win… and it was a huge disappointment for Portugal not to win considering they were hosts and had an amazing team.
Were Porto really underdogs though? Almost half of that UCL winning side was part of the Portugal golden generation that lost to Greece...
At the time they were, yes. It was a big shock. Not quite the underdogs Greece were but remember the elite squads in Europe at that time. Porto’s squad, whilst very good, wasn’t in the top 10 in Europe at the time.
@@90_plus_1so why they 5 players of Porto would won the Champions League losing the final of The Euro.
Wow Penaldo was always a cry baby 😂
with the football that i see right now england, france worst football
Portuguese keeper sold in the final.
nah
ugly ultra defensive football, good for greece that they won, but for a neutral greece was the epitomy of boring
20 years later and you still haven't gotten over it...
@@Nick-wh4jt Haters gonna hate bro.
@@johanlassen6448 yeah man it just makes it even more perfect tbh
Eder was the hero of Euro 2016 final.
The Gods of football slept and a genuinely bad team, with bad players, stumbled on its way to the top by sheer luck, and ugly games. Nothing interesting, not deserved.
All six of the matches????
That's a lot of luck!