@ Kiya your words make me very proud, thank you. But still I believe that Germany gave us something very important as I have noted some posts before. Dicipline. We all here in Greece were amazed by the way the team functioned. We have never seen them before be so diciplined and have such self confidence. And this is I believe what Otto gave us as a gift. And I think that this is what we miss from our cutlure. What I mean is that Germany did not of course helped us as a country, but we took something from your culture. And it is nice to see people get good influence from each other. That is what I liked the most.
Also Otto with his genlte and kind way he believed in them. We need no more than that. When someone believes in us we think that we have a "moral obligation" not to fail him (Hope this term works in English. In Greek this is something very serious/important. The "moral obligation" I mean). There were coatches in the past that they were spiting on the players. They were calling them names when they played bad. How could someone work like that? How can you be good when your "teacher" does not believe in you? Our goal keeper Nikopolides (who had such a good performance) was not allowed to play because of some problems with the Greek team he was on. You know what Otto did? He called him and said to him that he did not care about the problems and that he did not give a damn if he was not allowed to play. He would play for the National Team period no matter what the organizations would say. Nikopolides cried from joy. He wanted to play so much! And Otto did it. Just like that. I will never forget Nikopolides smile. Ever.
Anyway I see things a bit sentimental here. Maybe because deep in our hearts we all knew that they can play good footbal. But no-one up till now forced them to look inside them and take it out. "The hardest thing is not to gain something, but to realize that you already have it" <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" /> Does this ring a bell to you dearest German friend? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />
Please let my heart be grateful for what we learn <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
Next time <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> We will be rich <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />
