Olympic Intermediate Games 1906 / Football

Football at the Olympic Intermediate Games
information
Attendees:	45 athletes
Date:	April 23rd - April 25th
Competition location:	Athens
Decision:	1

A soccer tournament was also held at the 1906 Olympic interludes . Four teams, some of them mixed, took part in this draw.

Denmark, which was considered the strongest continental European country at the time, but did not yet have a national team , sent a Copenhagen city ​​selection, which had nothing to do with the Dansk Boldspil Union , but was a private initiative. For Greece, the team from Ethnikos GS Athênai took part, which was reinforced by a player from Panellinios GS Athênai . Two teams from the Ottoman Empire took part. A team from Thessaloniki , which consisted entirely of players from the local club Omilos Filomuson Thessaloníké (the predecessor club of Iraklis Thessaloniki ) and a team that went under the name Smyrna and consisted of six French, five English and one Armenian.

All games were played in the Podilatodromio , which is where the Karaiskakis Stadium stands today .

The tournament was clearly dominated by the Danish team, which outclassed their opponents. In the final, the Northern Europeans were already leading 9-0 at halftime, after which the Athens team refused to continue the game. Denmark was then declared the winner. The tournament management decided that the three "Greek" teams should play for second place. The Athenians also refused to do this, as they had already clearly defeated Thessaloniki in the semi-finals and were disqualified and placed in last place. The two losers in the semi-finals played for second place. This pairing between Smyrna and Thessaloniki won the international selection of Smyrna, whose offensive series consisted of the five English Whittal brothers, 3-0.

Game results

Semifinals

April 23, 1906	Athens	Copenhagen	-	Smyrna	5: 1 (1: 1)
April 23, 1906	Athens	Ethnikos GS Athina	-	Omilos Filomouson Thessaloniki	6-0

final

April 24, 1906

Athens

Copenhagen

-

Ethnikos GS Athina

9: 0 (after 45 min)

2nd place match

April 25, 1906

Athens

Smyrna

-

Omilos Filomouson Thessaloniki

3-0

Medal ranks

rank	player
Gold Denmark	Copenhagen Aage Andersen , Viggo Andersen (goalkeeper) , Charles Buchwald , Holger Frederiksen , Hjalmar Heerup , August Lindgren , Niels Oscar Nielsen , Parmo Perslev , Peter Petersen , Henry Rambuch , Stefan Rasmussen
Silver turkey	Smyrna Edwin Charnaud (goalkeeper) , Percy de la Fontaine , Edward Giraud , Jim Girard , Henry Joly , Zaret Couyoumdjian , Albert Whittal , Donald Whittal , Edward Whittal , Godfrey Whittal , Herbert Whittal
Bronze turkey	Omilos Filomouson Thessaloniki John Abbot , Andonios Karayanidis , John Kirou , Dimitrios Militsopoulos , Nikolaos Pendakis , Nikolaos Pindos , John Saridakis , George Soririadis , Andonios Tegos , George Vaporis (goalkeeper) , Vasilios Zarkadis
Greece	Ethnikos GS Athina Konstantinos Botasis , Panayotis Botasis , Nikolaos Dekavalas , George Gerondakis , Omiros Iosifoglou , Alexandros Kalafatis , George Merkuris , George Pandos , Konstantinos Siriotis , George Vrionis , Panayotis Vrionis (goalkeeper)

Web links

• Information and details on 1906 at iffhs.de
• Tournament dates 1906 on rsssf.com (English)

literature

• IFFHS : Book Series "Olympic Football Tournaments" Volume 1, pp. 15/16