U shouldn't even be in the final cuz the Netherlands deserved to win that game

Big respect

..since then Portuguese people became our blood brothers because all Greeks who came back from euro described how hospital and wonderful people they were besides the biggest defeat of their football history ...we love you Portugal

@@divedeep04 No matter where the tournament would have been played and faced that country in the final u wouldve gotten the same love. Its just happened to be in portugal. If the euros would have been in holland and u beat us u would have gotten the same treatment, maybe even better. Cuz we have a lot of greeks here and we love greek food/restaurants and greek women are the most beautiful in europe

@@rubenabreu927 its funny how nuno gomez ended up accidentally on the same resort as the Greek squad after euro and they'd troll him buying him drinks and when he said he didn't order anything the waiter said charisteas ordered it.

that's awesome glad to hear it

respect👍 i also think everyone else was Greek in 2004

And now Greece share one of it's biggest basketball legends with Nigeria, Antetokoumbo, Greece and Nigeria brotherhood

Thanks brother,from a Greek

And now we can both celebrate the Antetokounmpos together again

loool :D

Only because he missed Euro2004.

@@FootkerSnookball No, he dosn't have one cuz he is from England.

That is because he was part of that "GOLDEN GENERATION" hahaha

@@CH-mw6bs Golden generation without gold.

@@sd5rtgfcdgfdc888exactly!..thank you🇩🇪..😂

they were both obviously referring to the size of the population and nothing else..

@@dimitrios9094 Ναι αδερφέ το κατάλαβα. Λέω ότι θα πρέπει να είμαστε λίγο πιο προσεκτικοί στις λέξεις που χρησιμοποιούμε.

Well the population but also the international football history

Καλά σιγά την συνέντευξη ο δικός μας με το ζόρι αρθρωνει πρόταση στα ελληνικά πόσο μάλλον στο αγγλικά...

@@ALFZ_PDF_FILE_PSF Εσυ που εισαι σπιρτο, δεν σε ξερει κανενας.

@@ALFZ_PDF_FILE_PSF ναι και?

@@ALFZ_PDF_FILE_PSF Ποδοσφαιριστής είναι, όχι καθηγητής.

@@ALFZ_PDF_FILE_PSF ρε Ελληνάρα ακόμα και εδώ κάτι αρνητικό βρήκες να πεις ρε φίλε; Μακάρι να είχαμε τον υγειές τρόπο σκέψης που έχουν αυτοί οι άνθρωποι αντί να κάνουμε νόρμα την τοξικότητα.

And the Czech were the best team this tournament.

We even won Eurovision haha there was no stopping us

@@user-er3bx8qb1j which helped in destroying our countrys economy…

@@BaconBane that was a dream that year2004 the olympics in athens euro ,eurovision you name it greece was the face of the world that year incredible memories

I think we tasted that feeling one more time this year when Olympiakos won the europa conference

@@user-er3bx8qb1jand won Eurovision lol

giourkas zagorakis

The end of your comment says it all. Teams win it not solo players. Something most central and South American teams forget from time to time. Argentina are world champs but have been out played in the Copa tournament so far.

Not comparable tbh. Denmark won by passing the ball to the gk and he could catch it with his hands. They were spamming this and the were the reason the rule changed

Olympiakos and Panathinaikos were CL teams back then. That helped the national team quality.

@@Mad_IntalectGreece hadn’t even scored a single World Cup goal and managed to win a euros

​@@Mad_Intalectonly panathinaikos players were there tho

@@ALFZ_PDF_FILE_PSF You are correct, the squad is mostly Panathinaikos, AEK Athens and foreign based players. My point still stands.

Leicester 2016 by far

@@ALFZ_PDF_FILE_PSF one is a club, the other is a nation. Don't even compare it bro.

@@ALFZ_PDF_FILE_PSF search for larissa fc greece 1988 champions same miracle with leicester and greece

@@193sora193 you can compare it easily 38 matches in the best league in the world with a team that barely escaped relegation is far more difficult than greece that had quality and many good players that played in the champions League in a 6 game tournament... Thats not even a debate

@@ALFZ_PDF_FILE_PSF I see what you mean , but actually there is a debate! To play in the Euro you need to qualify. That means Greece had to play 10 games prior to the tournament , and win most of them or else you're out. So it's not a 6 game tournament, but a minimum of 16. Greece was the Leicester of the Euro2004. The team consisted of good players but let's face it, they had to beat the team of the Balon d'or holder , Pavel Nedved ,Milan Baros the top scorer in the tournament, the best goalkeeper in the world Petr Cech, from Czechia who was the favourite to win the tournament... they had to win the host nation of Portugal twice(!), the team of Figo , Ronaldo , Deco, Pauletta, Carvallo, Tiago, Gomes... They had to dethrone the winners of Euro 2000, France, the team of Zidane, Barthez, Henry, Lizarazu, Makelele , Desailly... And let's not forget the team of Spain!... Greece never won a group stage game prion to Euro2004 and only qualified once in 1980!!!!

the premierleague teams of the year that leicester won it were nothing special. dont forget that for most of the campaign leicester was competing with spurs and we all know how that goes.

Porto with Mourinho as well

Greece and Leicester are the best things that happened to football in 2000's. Evolved the game and showed that football is a collective team sport.

@@viktorfarkas9416I mean Porto already won the ucl before 2004

@@nickolay6277 i think not just in 2000's but in the entire story of football even greater than danimark and porto

50 here and yea...

Its all good Brother,..I understand you 👍👏🙏

I cried when I learned Adonis will be a member of the government for 4 more years. Some months later Greeks are working 6 days a week....but sure lets celebrate the achievements of grown ups with shorts kicking a ball.

@@nickolasgaspar9660 makes me sick :( and they wonder why we're all over the world lol

+ Eurovision + Olympics

to date, only greece has managed to hold the title in football and basketball at the same time...

@@Pegasos4 I'm greek but Spain has done it in 2008 and they were European Champs in football, basketball and Volleyball at the same time... we don't need to change history to lift ourselves higher... that's pathetic actually...

🇬🇷💙💪

don't sweat on it, una fatsa una ratsa!

Don't worry about it...if you are Southern Italian you are probably Greek on both sides😂

@@RealOrbit-Australia I'm from Rome and Kalamata so I think it's 50/50, if I was from like Puglia region or something then yes I'd agree! Always get surprised how many greeks in oz! But most of them greek-cypriots I'm pretty sure just like here in London

@@V8-mf8wl Greek Cypriot from Melbourne here.... Cypriots in the UK is due to Cyprus being part of the Commonwealth...my grandad was a British citizen

You forgot the chech republik

and everyone forgets to mention: greece qualified for the european championships as group winners and sent spain as second into the playoffs. spain qualified and ended up in the same group as greece again.

We didn't win Spain

@@billmakaveli7638 yes they did in qualifiers. Even tied in a friendly before the tournament started

@@luccac6247 yeah mate you right i thought we only spoke about the tournament .Angelos even mentioned

The greatest (and worst )night of my life was the "No" Greeks said to the IMF, world and European bank back in 2015....but that specific corrupted politician took it back.

I was honestly more scared of the czech republic that year more than any other team, I had nightmares before the match

@@ItsameAlex yeah, It was underminded a bit cause in the top 8 we faced one of the best national teams of all time

Anyone speaking about lack of attacking football send him watch this year's tournament's favorite teams.

France as a whole hasn't score a single goal till the semifinals. And they had more games than Greece in the current tournament's form.

@@S-u-r-e-n insane performance from Greece in 2004!

The Euro brought you to life! Incredible!!! 🙏🏻

beautiful

What happened in 87?

@@ItsameAlex The Greek national basketball team won the euro against USSR.That changed basketball in Greece forever.

that was a myth,he came out and said it wasnt true 😆

True story not a myth. But it was Katsouranis.

And that was only the beginning, because for us dudes football matters more than anything else.

The same thing happened with Sokratis Papastathopoulos in the 2014 World Cup. After scoring the final minute goal against Costa Rica, there were memes with him celebrating the goal and saying "I'm not getting married!". Unfortunately we didn't progress past that. Still, being in the 16 best countries was one hell of an achievement for Greece. The problem was we could have beaten Costa Rica and go to the quarter finals, we played better than them but we were unlucky in that match.

They also had to book a rooms again...cause they only had booked for the group stage....

i agree with you about the czech republic

Still your best ever team was in 04.

Greek American when Portugal won in 2016 I was very happy for you guys.

@@DimShamrock nope, our best team was in euro 2000.

@@joaodiniz7207 Ronaldo, Figo, Deco, Rui Costa & Pauleta all played in 04. Plus you had many players from the then European Champions, Porto. They had just won the Champions League less than 2 months before.

@@DimShamrock figo, rui costa, João Pinto, Paulo Sousa , Pauleta were also there in 2000. Plus we played even better. But yeah we had a great team in 2004.

cool

haha

what happened when you watched the final?

@@ItsameAlex Somehow, we were relatively calm. The success was so insane already, that we felt destined to lift the trophy, no matter what. I remember celebrating Charisteas' goal against Portugal with almost half the energy we celebrated the Czech Republic goal - which is still a lot! But somehow we expected it, somehow we were sure we will win, I don't know how to explain it. Then, of course, when we actually did it, it felt surreal... Even now it does. We were in a nirvana-like state for a month or so... Incredible, undescribable feeling.

@@BigDaddyAEL Yeah I was also more afraid of the czech republic game than the portugal final, so I share your sentiment

ok.. so 31st December when it's about to be new year 2005 you want it to go back to 2004 again? groundhog year?

Golden generation is called a generation that brings trophies and big wins. Till then, stay with golden chants " it's coming home "

Yeah I think he’s the best he scored the most goals in the squad in euro 2004

He was a good player, but there were better Greek Players at that time. Some of the Best Greek players didn’t even make the squad back then, because of their Egos & Toxicity in the Locker Rooms. I can tell you more if any of you are interested. Charisteas was good & an EXCELLENT CHARACTER with a FANTASTIC MENTALITY, this is also a big part of a good athlete in the context of a team sport.

@@Kingmus3b he scored more goals than ronaldo

@@Trapligo Ronaldo only scored 2 goals in 2004 euros

what I didn't understand at the time. otto rehagel never nominated the playmaker "Akis Zikos", who reached the champions league final with as monaco, for the national team. rehagel said at the time (as there was also a lot of criticism): he doesn't fit into our game system, he's too offensive...