Symi International Football Tournament
There’s an International Football Tournament taking place on Symi at the moment, 21st to 24th of October with two teams from the U.K., one team from Rhodes and two teams from Symi – the Under 11’s and Under 12’s teams are taking part. Gary Shaw arrived this morning to present the medals at the end of the Tournament. Gary Shaw is a former Aston Villa player and winner of the European Cup in 1982 when Aston Villa beat Bayern Munich 1-0. Aston Villa then went on to win the Super Cup beating Barcelona 3-0 at Villa Park in January 1983 with Gary Shaw scoring one of the goals. There are games at 5.00 p.m. & 6.00 p.m. both today and tomorrow, and our teams need local support. Have a look at A.O.Symi Facebook page for full details of the matches to be played.
As you might have gathered, that football detail didn’t come from me. That was a message kindly sent by Jean yesterday. By coincidence, we bumped into some of the players at the Rainbow Bar on Sunday night. Rather, they didn’t bump into me. I was heading back from Yianni’s salubrious outhouse when I found myself standing like a rock in a river as around 20 boys and girls poured into the bar. They were after the Someone Vs Someone Else match that was streaming in from the UK. That first, soft drinks second.
One of the teams met our team when they were at Camber Sands, in East Sussex earlier in the year. It’s great to see things like this, giving the youngsters a travel adventure, a different culture to see, and new friends to meet with a common interest. There was a positive, party atmosphere at the bar, some of the boys and girls discovered the square (and probably a football) and Renos (star of film and football) acted as the translator when talking to Greek children. Well done to everyone involved.
