Greece lose to Spain and Zagorakis farewell
Posted by evdomada on August 23, 2007
Greece lost in their friendly match against Spain 2-3 this morning at Toumba in Thessaloniki.
It was Zagorakis’ 120th cap for the national side and the 17000 fans were there to thank him for his service. In particular how could we forget his player of the tournament achievement in the Euro 2004 and captaining the team to their greatest triumph.
The game apparently wasn’t such a bad outing for the Greek national side and was a good test in preparation for our next Euro 2008 qualifier against Norway.
Scorers for Greece were Gekkas 18′ and Katsouranis 44′ and we were up 2-1 at half time. Spain equalised twice with Marcena 38′ and Silva 66′ and it wasn’t until in injury time that Silva scored again to give Spain victory.
Rehagel tried a few different things during the game with 7 changes in total – including a 17th minute change to take Zagorakis from the game and hand over to the new team structure.
