Triumph for Pavlidis’ team!

The architect of this team, Haris Pavlidis, led it to the top in his first major tournament as a national coach and after the final he said:

“I am very emotional, it is my first major tournament as head coach of Greece and we got the gold medal. We played a great game, good defense, we didn’t let them score, we didn’t make many mistakes, we had a few but it was a good game. I had a feeling in the morning that we would do it, I want to congratulate my girls for the excellent tournament.”

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This is the 4th gold for Greece in a major competition, following the victories at the 2005 World League, the 2011 World Championship, and the 2018 Europa Cup.

The team of Charis Pavlidis was better from the first to the last minute. They played excellent defense, had a great performance from the young goalkeeper Alexia Tzourka, and in the 3rd period, they exploded offensively with 6 goals, with top performances from Siouti and Eleftheria Plevritou.

Greece took a 5-3 lead with consecutive goals from Xeniaki and Nino, but Haindou reduced the score in the last second of the first period. Our girls kept Hungary scoreless for over 8 minutes.

At the start of the 3rd period, they reduced the gap with Laitemer, but two consecutive goals from Siouti gave the national team its first +3 lead (8-5). Despite missing another penalty, this time from Tricha, the national team maintained control of the final, and Eleftheria Plevritou took over, scoring two consecutive goals to make it 10-6. The gap increased even more at the end of the quarter (12-7), and Tzourka, with her saves, discouraged any thoughts of a Hungarian comeback.

The quarters: 5-4, 1-0, 6-3, 1-2

Referees: Severo (Italy), Kambanas (Spain)

The line-ups:
GREECE (Charis Pavlidis): Kotsioni, Elef. Plevritou 3, Tricha 1, Santa, Yannopoulou, Xeniaki 3, Nino 1, Siouti 3, V. Plevritou 2, Tornaru, Myriokefalitou, Tzourka, Kouretas, Angelidis
HUNGARY (Sandor Cseh): Nesmeli, Vali 1, Dobi 1, Domsondi, Soumegi, Baksa 1, Perestegi-Nagy, Laitemer 1, Rybanska, Farago 1, Garda 2, Torma, Haindou 1, Tiba 1.

The most valuable player of the final was Elena Xeniaki with three goals.
The most valuable player of the tournament was Vasiliki Plevritou, who also scored nine goals over the three-day period from April 18 to 20.