Wednesday, July 2, 2008

ATHENS GP-AGGELOS WINS-KICKERS & JAIME IN SEMIS











The weekend 7-8 of June we had the annual Athens Grand Prix. The Athens kicker’s team was there and managed to succeed some worthily to mentioned results.
Day one we had the individuals veterans and the team event.
In the veterans Kickers dominated. Aggelos Tsakiris lift easily the trophy. Giorgos Aggelinas reached the semi just to loose against Aggelos. The other two players that participated Fanis Ellinas and Marcos Kapsabelis, qualified from the group and lost to the last eight.
At the team event we lead the group with 3 easy wins against Atlas Glyfada, Pireas Lions and Haidari Highlanders. Then in the barrage game we beat Olympia 3-1 and reached the semi final. Then we meet the famous Roligans, lost 3-1 (8-4 on goals). Later on Roligans won the final against Falcons.

Day 2 we had the Open category. 7 kickers were there. Jaime Silva was great and with a record of 6 straight wins reached the semi final. Then he lost 1-2 against Nikos Beis who finally won the tournament.
Marcos Kapsabelis reached the quarter final (lost against Beis). Giorgos Aggelinas leave the tournament undefeated in the last 16) lost on shots against Archimandritis).
Aggelos Tsakiris, Fotis Labi and Argiris Poulidis stayed in the last 32 and Fanis Ellinas was the only one who didnt qualify from the group.

Go kickers go