Football At The 1906 Summer Olympics

The Athens team withdrew from the final at half time to preserve their dignity, and were then invited to play in a match to decide second place, but declined. Smyrna and Thessaloniki , both then cities in the Ottoman Empire , played off instead. The Thessaloniki team was mostly Greek, but the Smyrna team consisted of English , French and Armenia n players.

RESULTS

''The Athens team were disqualified from the tournament as a result of their failure to appear after half-time in the final, and also a refusal to play in the second-place match.''

SQUADS

Denmark: Viggo Andersen, Peder Pedersen, Charles von Buchwald, Parmo Ferslev, Stefan Rasmussen, Aage Andersen, Oscar Nielsen, Carl Pedersen, Holger Frederiksen, August Lindgren, Henry Rambusch, Hjalmar Herup.

Smyrna: Edwin Charnaud, Zareck Couyoumdzian, Edouard Giraud, Jacques Giraud, Henri Joly, Percy de la Fontaine, Donald Whittal, Albert Whittal, Godfrey Whittal, Harold Whittal, Edward Whittal.

Thessaloniki: Georgios Vaporis, Nikolaos Pindos, Antonios Tegos, Nikolaos Pentzikis, Ioannis Kyrou, Georgios Sotiriadis, Vasilios Zarkadis, Dimitrios Mikhitsopoulos, Antonios Karagionidis, Ioannis Abbot, Ioannis Saridakis.

Athens: Panagiotis Vrionis, Nikolaos Dekavalas, Georgios Merkouris, Konstantinos Botasis, Grigorios Vrionis, Panagiotis Botasis, Georgios Gerontakis, Georgios Kalafatis, Theodoros Nikolaidis, Konstantinos Siriotis, A. Georgiadis.

REFERENCES

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