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Is that Trabzonspor V's Anorthosis?<br />What was the score?

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<img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/default/grin.gif" /> <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/default/smile.gif" /> You bloody beauty! That will teach them.<br />Now that is poetic justice.<br />Long live Anorthosis and a united Cyprus. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/default/grin.gif" /> <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/default/grin.gif" /> <img border="0" title="" alt="[Cool]" src="images/icons/default/cool.gif" /> <img border="0" title="" alt="[Cool]" src="images/icons/default/cool.gif" />

Just to rub it in. Anorthosis knocks out Trabzonspor from the European Champions League.<br /><br />What a great day for Hellenes all over the world.<br /> <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/default/grin.gif" /> <img border="0" title="" alt="[Cool]" src="images/icons/default/cool.gif" />

Anorthosis returns to a hero's welcome<br /><br />Larnaca, Aug 4 (CNA) -- Anorthosis Famagusta, the Cypriot football team<br />that secured a place last night in the third qualifying round of the<br />UEFA Champions League by knocking out a Turkish team, returned home in<br />the early hours of Thursday to an unprecedented hero's welcome.<br /><br />Thousands of fans, supporters of Anorthosis and other Cyprus football<br />clubs, were at Larnaca airport to welcome the players, their player<br />coach Timour Ketsbaia, board members and about 100 fans who had<br />travelled with the team to Turkey, for the match against Trabzonspor.<br /><br />The Turkish team won the match by 1-0 but Anorthosis was the team to<br />qualify because of its 3-1 win in the first leg in Nicosia last week.<br /><br />''We are delighted, we are very proud to have qualified for the next<br />round of the Champions League. We have made a lot of people very<br />happy,'' Andreas Panteli, chairman of Anorthosis said on arrival at<br />Larnaca airport, where fire engines formed an arch as they sprayed the<br />aircraft that carried the team back to Cyprus.<br /><br />Anorthosis was faced with a hostile climate in Turkey created by<br />Trabzonspor fans who viewed victory against the Cypriot team as a<br />''national cause''.<br /><br />The ''Huseyin Avni Aker'' stadium was full to capacity with Turkish<br />fans, waving flags of Turkey but also of the breakaway ''state''<br />proclaimed in the Turkish occupied northern part of Cyprus.<br /><br />This was the first time a Cypriot football team had played against a<br />Turkish team, since Turkey's invasion of Cyprus in 1974. Ankara does<br />not recognize the Republic of Cyprus and Anorthosis was forced to fly<br />to Trabzon via Damascus because Turkey does not allow direct flights<br />from the Republic.<br /><br />''Today we are celebrating, tomorrow we get back to work for our next<br />qualifying match against Glasgow Rangers,'' Panteli said.<br /><br />Ketsbaia said this was a very important victory and thanked everybody<br />for their support.<br /><br />''We are very happy. The players believed they could make it, here and<br />in Turkey, and they have,'' he said.<br /><br />Goalkeeper Antonis Georgallides thanked all the fans who welcomed<br />Anorthosis at Larnaca airport at 4.30 this morning.<br /><br />He said this was ''a historic day'' for Anorthosis, which will be<br />remembered by all football fans in Cyprus.<br /><br />The triumphant team was met at the airport by Famagusta Mayor Yiannakis<br />Skordis, thousands of fans, and airport employees.<br /><br />Celebrations throughout Cyprus began immediately after the end of the<br />game and continued until the early hours of the morning. The<br />achievement of Anorthosis is hailed with banner headlines on the front<br />pages of today's dailies.