Sunday August 12 the Austrian Major of Mattersburg was played. A really important tournament as it is the last event before the World Cup of France.
An Athens Kickers player - Giorgos Aggelinas - was there.
He participated in the open category. The draw send him to group 6 alongside with Wolgang Leitner (later on he won the tournament) from Austria and Marco Pinausi from Italy. The first game was against the Italian. Giorgos secured the qualification as he won 3-1 (0-0 ht). At the maentime Pinausi had lost against Leitner 4-1. So the game against Leitner was to be decided who the winner of the group will be. Giorgos didn't make it as he lost 0-3 even if the score at the halftime was 0-0.
So in order to qualify to the last 32 he had to play a barrage game. His opponent was Heinz Eder from Austria. Although that he deserved something better according to many missed chanches he didn't manage to score. So the only one and very late goal that Heinz scored (at the very last second of the game) was enough to disqualify Giorgos.
Anyway the tournament was a very good one, worthly deserved to be a major. It is a tournament that it is a must to be involved in.
An Athens Kickers player - Giorgos Aggelinas - was there.
He participated in the open category. The draw send him to group 6 alongside with Wolgang Leitner (later on he won the tournament) from Austria and Marco Pinausi from Italy. The first game was against the Italian. Giorgos secured the qualification as he won 3-1 (0-0 ht). At the maentime Pinausi had lost against Leitner 4-1. So the game against Leitner was to be decided who the winner of the group will be. Giorgos didn't make it as he lost 0-3 even if the score at the halftime was 0-0.
So in order to qualify to the last 32 he had to play a barrage game. His opponent was Heinz Eder from Austria. Although that he deserved something better according to many missed chanches he didn't manage to score. So the only one and very late goal that Heinz scored (at the very last second of the game) was enough to disqualify Giorgos.
Anyway the tournament was a very good one, worthly deserved to be a major. It is a tournament that it is a must to be involved in.
