OR National pole He lost 13-12 to Hungary, completing the 3rd place in the Trinacria Cup International Preparation Tournament, held in Trapani, Sicily.
The National Polo fought without Manos Zerdeva and Stelios Argyropoulos (and of course Dimitris Skoumbakis, who did not follow the mission to Italy) and took third place in the rankings, with one victory and two defeats.
Magyar’s pressing created unparalleled problems for Thodoris Vlachos’ players, who at the same time had very bad choices in the few few – cases found with a numerical advantage. Although the defense and Panagiotis Georgatos started well (the national team conceded only one goal in the first seven minutes), Hungary found solutions in the counter and escaped 6-2 in half of the second period. A nice shot by Papanikolaou from the district and the first Greek goal in a player above, with Kakaris scoring, allowed the “blue-white” to reduce to 6-4 at half time.
The difference in effectiveness in the player above allowed the Hungarians to maintain the difference, although they had a hard time marking Kakaris at 2m. and many penalties were charged. With their top Jusik and Bourian, Hungary again escaped +4 (12-8), about five minutes before the end, and kept the victory, even though Ethniki reduced the final 13-12 with Guvetsi, 14 seconds before the end.
It should be noted that in the second half Thodoris Vlachos used Manos Andreas in the Greek home instead of Georgatos.
Eight minutes (first nationally): 1-3, 3-3, 2-3, 6-4
GREECE (Thodoris Vlachos): Georgzatos, 2 Genidounias, Kastrinakis, Giouvetsis 2, Gardikas, Halivopoulos 1, Gillas, Kalogeropoulos 3, Alafigis, Kakaris 2, Nikolaidis, Papanikolaou 2, Andreas, Pouros
HUGARIA (Zolt Varga): Missi, Tatrai, Mancherts 2, Molnar, Vamos, Naggie 1, Feke, Bourian 4, Kovacs, Ventel Vigari, Jusik 4, Vinci Vigari 1, Vogel, Vismeg 1