Greece – Serbia 11-12: The men’s national polo team was a surprise victim, losing to a resurgent Serbia 12-11 in the quarter-finals and missing out on the Olympics. Our national team had won a silver medal in Tokyo.
The Greek team had a 9-8 lead at the end of the third eight minutes with 3 consecutive goals by Dimitris Skoubakis, but conceded the decisive goal with a long shot by Jaksic in exhalation, while he had equalized 6” before the final with Angelos Vlachopoulos. If it had qualified, it would have played in the semi-final with one of the USA, Australia.
The variation per eight minutes: 3-3, 2-3, 4-2, 2-3.
The goals for the team of Thodoris Vlachos were achieved by Papanikolaou, Vlachopoulos 2, Foundoulis, Kakaris, Papanastasiou, Gennidounias, Skoumbakis 2, Gillas.
Greece (Thodoris Vlachos): Zerdevas, Genidounias 1, Skoubakis 3, Kalogeropoulos, Fundoulis 1, Papanastasiou 1, Gillas 1, Argyropoulos, Papanikolaou 1, Kakaris 1, Nikolaidis, Vlachopoulos 1, Tjortzatos.
Serbia (Stevanovic): Filipovic, Madic 5, Strahinja Rasovic 2, Radelovic, Cuk, Dedovic, Drasovic, Nikola Jaksic 1, Vico 1, Ubovic, Petar Jaksic, Vitkor Rasovic 3, Misovic.
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