The fight may have been friendly, but that does not diminish the size of the success. Our National Children's Team defeated Germany 1-0 away from home and did something that no other National Team has done in the past: Defeat a German National Team, at any age, for any event or friendly match.
The protagonist in this great result is our football player from Sotira, Grigoris Kastanos.
"It's a huge victory that will help us a lot in the future. It will help our young players to believe more in themselves and realize that they have the potential to achieve a lot ", says the coach of our National Team, Renos Dimitriadis, on the website of KOP, to add:" Maybe the match was friendly, but , when you enter the field, that matters little. And the conditions in which our match took place, with more than 3000 spectators in the stands, were anything but friendly. It was a great experience for all of us. Now, the important thing is to keep going. We have a long way to go before the official matches. The first sample was definitely positive and the victory will help in many areas, but if there is no continuity, it means that we have not achieved anything. "
Kastanos is proud
Proud of the victory and happy for the goal he scored, says the scorer of our National Team, Grigoris Kastanos. "All the children gave their best and we are proud of the victory we achieved. I am happy that I managed to score, but for me the most important thing is that the National Team of Cyprus managed to beat a team like Germany. The matches may be friendly, but we treat them completely differently and that was seen on the field yesterday as well "is the comment of Kastanos.
It should be noted that this is the new National Children's Team, which is now starting to be built with players who played in the U-15 National Team until the summer, after the previous U-17 National Team completed its cycle last September.
Our national team started training just two weeks ago and was preceded by four training sessions before yesterday's match with the Germans.
However, our internationals responded to the best of their ability and managed to get the winning result, which caused great excitement in the mission of our team.
Cyprus and Germany will face each other in a second friendly tomorrow, also at 19:00 in Germany.
The following players are on the mission in Germany:
AEK LARNAKAS: Giannis Michael
AEL: Andreas Neophytou, Michael Panaretou
APOEL: Christos Charalambous, Dimitris Makridis, Andreas Hapesis
APOLLONAS: Nikolas Mattheou, Andreas Grigoriou, Evdoras Silvestros
ASIL: Christos Kallis
ETHNIKOS Achnas: Michalis Charalambous, Symeon Konne
UNION OF NEWS Paralimni: Lefteris Flouris, Grigoris Kastanos, Panagiotis Artymatas
OLYMPIAKOS: Stefanos Krstic
OMONIA Nicosia: Sotiris Fiakas
ARSENAL Elite Academy: Costas Pileas
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