My friend: do you know my country? Greek sport Scuola media di Mornico al Serio Anno scolastico 2010/2011

Five-a-side football (ποδόσφαιρο) The five-a-side championship of Greece is called the Hellenic Championship and it is organized by the football federation of Greece. The championship began in the season 1997/1998 and some 2001 played the cup national Greece. The five editions have been won by the Doukas and Athina 90.

Greek won the European Championship in 2004 but the Greek team weren’t good enough. The Super League Greece is their name. The most famous Greek teams are: - Olympiacos won 37 titles; - Panathinaikos won 20 titles; - AEK Atene won 11 titles; - Aris Salonicco won 3 titles; - Paok Salonicco won 2 titles; - Larissa won 1 title. Football (ποδόσφαιρο)

The national of water polo male team has obtained great results in many internationals competitions. Its maximum targets were attended the second place in1997 in world cup, the fourth place in 2004 games of Atene and the third place the next year at the world games of Montreal. The greek women national of water polo is one of the major European teams since 1900, its results are a great second place at the 2004 Olympics, a first place in the World league in 2005 and always in the World league bronze in Water-polo

Running/Ο αγώνας Running is a Greek sport, which spread acroos Europe and other continents, this sport was practiced in 2004 Olympic in Athens. The race is always physicalactivity and is practiced by man’s activity which is based on the overwhelming majority of sporting activities.

Rugby Rugby, isn’t so common in greece. The national rugby team with fifteen players represents the greece at international competitions. In the meantime it is inserted in the 3rd and isn’t inserted in the world ranking of IRB. The team have never participed in the world cup.

Basketball (μπάσκετ) In Greece there are a lot of famous basketball teams like Panathinaikos (in Italy its nickname is “Pana”). Nikolaos Zisis is quite famous in italy, he plays like playmaker in Montepaschi Siena’s team. Kosta Koufos plays in Minnesota Timberwolves a team which is part of the NBA. The Greek national basketball team is 4th in the FIBA ranking, the coach is Jonas Kazlauskas. In the european championship they won two gold medals in 1987 and in 2005, furthermore it won one silver medal in 1989 and two bronze medals in 1996 and 2004.

Volleyball (βόλεϊ) Volleyball is a sport played by two teams with a ball on a rectangular playing court divided by a net. In addition to the standard game, there are different versions made to allow you to play in specific circumstances. It is present in the program of the Summer Olympic Games since It is one of the most popular sports at school level.

Dimitrios Petrokokkinis is a tennis player who participated in the first game of tennis at the Modern Olympics that were in Athens. He won the silver medal paired with dionvsios kasdaglis, in the double in final jonh pius boland and friedrich traun. in the tournament singular was defeated in the first round by Evangelos rallis.