Here is the Seedings Vs Reality comparison: Group 1 Thor S 5th ↓ Gianni T 1st ✓ Fabio F 3rd ✓ Alkis P 9th ↓↓ Group 2 Spyros P 7th ✓ Christopher D 4th ↑ Steve C 13th ↓↓ Mario F 6th ✓ Group 3 Alessandro V 10th ✓ Ektoras K 20th ↓↓ Nikos A 12th ✓ Frank F 15th ↓ Group 4 Steve B 14th ✓ Panayotis P 11th ↑ ...

Did you know that R. A. Scott had not scored in a Kick Off 2 World Cup final since 2009, before Gianni used him to score twice in Athens? Did you know that Athens 2022 was one of the only five World Cups that averaged more than 8 goals per game? Did you know that Alkis has won more medals than every...

Here's a test - is Robert the only person to make the quarter finals as the lowest scorer in both Gold groups? Well spotted, Ian, and the answer is YES. In all the world cups where we had a Round 2 group stage (2, 4 or more groups), this is the first time that the lowest scorer of Round 2 makes it ...

A detailed report of the players' feedback has been posted on the Athens World Cup website . Please take a look before reading further. I'm grateful for your participation (all but three players completed the evaluation!) and for your overwhelmingly positive responses. As you can see, almost every s...

That was all Nikos' initiative.

I know what you mean about the way we look in this video. I also love that Nikos, Steve and I all pointed out the superiority of Kick Off 2 over modern football games without having discussed it among ourselves at all, we just said what felt natural to us.

A TV show about video games called Game R1 from Greek network Cosmote TV visited the 20th Kick Off 2 World Cup in Athens. I added some English subtitles for you guys, click on the image below to enjoy it:

So we played the first leg and Mario, in front of his loving son won his first match against me in I don't know how many years.

13! He beat you 8-7 in Milan XXVI, on December 20, 2009.

The Athens World Cup was not just an opportunity for me to wear my organizer cap again. It was also my return to the tournament, as my last one had been 6 years ago. For the first time since its conception, I had missed three consecutive world cups: Landskrona, Bournemouth and Bremen. The main reaso...

Great post, Lorenzo. It sounds like I must find that energy cocoa!

Excellent Parts 2 & 3! I'm looking forward to the conclusion.

Thank you for your kind words, and screw you for the nail comment!

Awesome stuff! Thank you!

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Fantastic write-up, thank you for your time and your kind words.