BASKETBALL: AEK BMC beats Aspis Apoel

With my mind mostly on football I had forgotten to write about our basketball team's important win on Monday. So here's my summary.

AEK beat Apoel 86-79 in the first round of the playoffs (second game). Apoel had won the first game, so a third match is needed now to see who will go to the next round.

The Team's top contributor for the game was Isaac Burton who scored 26 points. Fantousis and Panteli scoring 18 and 16 points respectively also greatly contributed to this very important victory.

Men's Basketball First Division Standings

1. Keravnos Strovolou Pts 31

2. Aspis Apoel Pts 30

3. Proteas Eka AEL Pts 28

4. Intercollege ETHA Pts 23

5. Hassapis Omonia Pts 23

6. Pizza Express Primetel Apolloon Pts 22

7. BMC AEK Larnacas Pts 21

8. Idra Asfalistiki ENAD Pts 20

9. Frederick Achilleas Kaimakliou Pts 18

Apollon 2 - 0 AEK

Today was our second consecutive defeat. Last week by Apoel at home with a score of 0-3 and today away with Apollon 2-0. I beleive this brings an end to the hope of finishing in the top 4 in the championship. The absence of Jose Manuel Rey, Jao Paiva and Pavel Pergl is no excuse for todays loss. If anyone tried to use this as an excuse is they should be deemed crazy and sent to a mental ward! Apollon played with their "back-up" players due to 10 of their main players being absent for various reasons.

We had a chance to be in the top 4, but we screwed up! We should have taken advantage of Apollon's absences and the fact that the game was played with empty stands without their fanatical supporters (due to Apollon's punishment by the C.F.A).

Apollon was the better team today and won fair and square and could have even scored more goals.

Yellow Cards: Demetriou - Michael, Cassio, Tininho

Apollon: Svalofsky, Baroon, Oseni, Moustakas, Garpozis, Mahraje, Koroslofski, Toressi (Goal at 90'+3'), Demetriou (80' Avraam), Risso (Goal at 69'), Asoulin (90' +1' Nicolaou)

ΑΕΚ: Augousti, Pappoe (70' Adorno), Nicolaou (65' Ilic), Kyriakou (75' Rhanem), Tininho, Christou, Cassio, Micahel, Gonzalez, Neophytou, Kingsley

Brief introduction...

I finally decided to start my own blog after viewing various blogs floating around on the web. I'm a sports fanatic, so naturally I searched for ones related to sports in Cyprus and in particular for football related ones. I stumbled upon some interesting and extremely witty ones that focus on my local football team AEK Kition. Needless to say, I was greatly inspired to begin my own blog.

I decided to mainly write in English in the hope of perhaps "educating" people who have no clue about sports in Cyprus and in particualar my favourite team AEK Kition. Also, another reason being is that I feel more comfortable typing in English rather than in Greek :)

Here's a brief introduction to my team taken from wikipedia.org for those interested :

"AEK Larnaca FC (Greek:Αθλητική Έvωση Κιτίου;Athlitiki Enosi Kitiou) is a Cypriot Sports club, based in the port of Larnaca. The club was formed in 1994 after a merger of two clubs of Larnaca; EPA and Pezoporikos. The clubs has football and basketball section for men and volleyball section for women."

The current president of the team is Thomas Kyriakou and the current coach is Nir Klinger. The colours of the club are green and yellow and their emblem is the famous Athenian general, Kimon, who died at the seafront defending the city of Citium in a major battle with the Persians of Xerxes. He told his officers to keep the news of his death secret. The quote "Και Νεκρος Ενικα" ("Even in death he was victorious") referred to Kimon. A statue of "Kimon the Athenian" stands proudly on the sea front promenade of modern Larnaca...read rest of article in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AEK_Larnaca