The Legend’s Youth came within a hair’s breadth of reaching the summit of world football, in front of 40,000 spectators. In the Intercontinental U20 final at Maracanã against CR Flamengo, Prekates hit the post in the 88th minute with what could have been the go-ahead goal, but in the 90+2 minute, Felipe Teresa found the back of the net to clinch victory for the Brazilian side.
Despite being the better team for most of the historic match and taking the lead through Liatsikouras in the 54th minute, Sotiris Silaidopoulos’ outstanding squad couldn’t pull off the miracle. They conceded two goals before the final whistle (the equalizer in the 73rd minute by Caio Garcia) and suffered a defeat, but they walked off the pitch with their heads held high!
Flamengo (F. Luis): Dyogo Alves, Sales (86’ Da Mata), Iago, Victor, Ze Welinton (61΄ Jean Carlos), Joao Alves (61’ Caio Garcia), Ryan Lucas, Guilherme (65’ Felipe Teresa), Matheus Goncalves, Wallace Yan, Ogundana (86’ Adriel)
OLYMPIACOS (S. Silaidopoulos): Botis, Koutsidis, Dama, Prekates, Alafakis, Liatsikouras, Mouzakitis, Bakoulas, Papakanellos, Pnevmonidis, Kostoulas.
