The defeat by 16-10 by Italy was known by the national pole Men, in her first friendly ahead of the Singapore World Championship. The match took place in the crowded swimming pool of the new state, in Larissa, as part of the joint preparation of the two bands.
The National Polo fought without Stelios Argyropoulos and Dimitris Skoumbakis, who joined the preparation with a delay in preparation due to their Champions League Final-4 obligations with Ferenzvaros and Novi Bengrad respectively.
On the contrary, Sandro campaign normally used the two Italian players who competed in Malta (Di Soma and needotto).
Vouliagmeni’s defender Nikos Kastrinakis made his debut with the Men’s National. Of the four goalkeepers who have been prepared by Thodoris Vlachos, Panagiotis Tzortzatos and Kostas Limarakis were left out tonight, while Manos Zerdevas and Manos Andreas were shared by a half.
With several new faces, Ethniki showed an unrelated -mainly in defense -, made many mistakes and accepted against Italy, which showed a better degree of preparedness, despite the lack of iconic Francesco Di Fulvio.
The “Stebello” led 5-3 at the end of the first period, with a goal in the exhaustion, they went 8-5 in the half and 11-7 in the middle of the third eighty, starring Giacomo Cinla, who scored six goals in total.
The “blue-white” reduced to the beginning of the last period to 11-9 with a penalty shoot-out by Guvetsi, but the Italians again raised the difference to +4 (13-9) and were not threatened.
The eight minutes: 3-5, 2-3, 3-3, 2-5.
The compositions:
GREECE (Thodoris Vlachos): Zerdevas, Genidounias 2, Gardikas, Giouvetsis 2, Halivopoulos 1, Pouros, Gilas 2, Kalogeropoulos 2, Alafigis, Kakaris, Nikolaidis 1, Papanikolaou, Andreas.
ITALY (Sandro Campaign): Nicozia, Cassia 1, Mladossic 1, Cinnamon 6, Ferrero 1, Balzarini, Guerato 1, Del Bass, Gratta 1, Bruni 1, Di Soma 2, Beet, Baghi Neki, 2.