Travitsa: “Our souls and hearts are with the grieving Greek people”

Olympiacos defeated Maccabi Tel Aviv 3-0 away and made the decisive move to win the Challenge Cup with their players. The second leg is scheduled for March 15 at Peace and Friendship Stadium (two sets are enough to win the trophy). be happy about the great success, but at the same time think of the difficult times that all Greeks are going through after the tragic train accident in Tempi.

His words are characteristic Ntragan Travitsa on the Cosmote TV camera, with the Italy international siding with the grieving Greeks and expressing a desire to bring some joy to the friends of the Piraeus team at such a ‘black’ time for the country.

“We’ve taken the first half step towards winning the title. It’s a special case because it’s a doubles game, it’s not like the other finals, but it’s certainly a great achievement that we got this win.”

I would like to point out that since this tragic incident with the trains in Greece, our souls and hearts are with the Greeks who are currently mourning these little children and we hope that with today’s victory we have brought relief to the souls of the Greeks who mourn these hours”, he emphasized while referring to the keys to victory, saying:

“The defense is a very important element because it shows the temperature of the team in the game, it puts you in the game, you get the win by pulling out the defense. The truth is that we did pretty well, we would have can even make it.” better because we lost some positions that we knew where the opposing strikers will attack, but I hope we can improve in that area in the second game as well.”

When finally asked to message the Olympiakos friends ahead of the rematch, he said: “We are incredibly happy and we love it very much that we are going to play in a very beautiful and very big stadium, a stadium that I have never played in, I only know it from TV, I’ve seen it. It’s an incredible feeling to play in this stadium with 12,000 people, but that’s for later, the game comes first, we need 10 days to prepare properly, to play properly.”