Difference between revisions of "1980"

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February 3: Stelios Manolas debuts in the Alpha Ethniki in the match Kastoria - AEK 1-1. The AEK defender will end his career 18 years later.

May 6: Nikos Galis makes his debut with the Greek National Basketball Team in a game against Sweden (71-79)
May 26: Kastoria win the Greek Soccer Cup after beating Iraklis 5-2 in Nea Philadelphia Stadium (Tsironis 3, Simaioforidis and Dintsikos)

June 11: Greece participate for the first time in the final phase of a major football tournament. They lose 1-0 to Holland in their opening match of Euro 1980, after East German referee Prokop inexplicably awards the Dutch a penalty when forward Naninga charges and injures Greek keeper Vasilis Konstantinou.
June 14: Greece lose to Czechoslovakia 3-1 in the finals of Euro 1980.
June 17: Greece draw W. Germany 0-0 in the finals of Euro 1980.

July 31: Turkish diplomat Galip Osman is assassinated along with his daughter in Pangrati, Athens.

October 15: Greece defeat Denmark 1-0 in Copenhagen thanks to a goal by Dinos Kouis. The man of the match is Greek goalkeeper Nikos Sarganis who preserves the victory and earns the nickname "phantom" from the Danish press.
October 19: Greece returns to the military branch of NATO.

December 19: Unidentified bombers destroy mega-stores Katrantzos and Mignon in Athens.

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 ==Deaths==
 ===February===
-*[[February 2]]: [[Giorgos Andrianopoulos]] football player and [[Piraeus]] mayor.
 *[[February 8]]: [[Nikos Xylouris]], [[Crete|Cretan]] singer.
+*[[February 24]]: [[Giorgos Andrianopoulos]] football player and [[Piraeus]] mayor.
 ===October===
 *[[October 15]]: [[Apostolos Nikolaidis]], former athlete and president of [[SEGAS]] and [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]].