Greece v Serbia - 28/10/06

[roopy]

I remember, when I wrote somewhere that Serbia will play v Greece, that someone said that they will demolish us. I said, "OK, but we are going to play". The thing that I wanted to say then proved to be true on Saturday. Young Serbian players were so excited and highly motivated and honoured to play versus Michael Korkidas, one great professional and player, and other Aussie-born Greeks (and locals, of course). Of course, if John Skandalis played, the difference would be probably higher, but we would still play. And there were 5 players from this year U19 Euro Nations Cup and 4 debutants (in full 13-a-side game) in Serbian team.

Here are some shots.

Fig.1: Dalibor Vukanovic converts for 12-10 for Greece

Fig.2: Soni Radovanic broke the defence, but caught by Greeks

Fig.3: Vukanovic usually ended Serbian sixth attack

Fig.4: Soni Radovanovic scores final Serbian and match try in 79th minute

Fig.5: picture for hystory, after awarding the Orthodox Cup

 

[JK]

Orthodox Cup?? Haha, nice one.

 

[dorcolrugby]

It is more Orthodox then Malta v Lebanon Phoenician!

 

[otag]

im presumin that serbs and greeks are mainly orthodox?

and the maltese and lebanese are both originators of the phoenicians?

 

[langpark]

Yeah, Greece is pretty much 100% Orthodox. Same as Serbia i think, except for where there's Croatian, Bosnian etc minorities.

Here's more pics btw: http://greekrugbyleague.com/images/061029/

 

[dorcolrugby]

Serbs are just like Greeks (except very low percentage of atheists), almost 100% Orthodox.

 

[langpark]

More pics! http://greekrugbyleague.com/images/061029/

 

[dorcolrugby]

There is a long intinerary story on two pages about Greece Tour from Serbian point of view on Serbian Rugby League forum. It is wrote in Cyrillic, but there is a lot of pictures, and I hope that very soon they will write in English, too, so you could understand what did Serbs do in Athens last weekend.
Greek player from Rhodes posted a lot of his pictures on Greek web-site.