The games kicked off in Athens Wednesday, June 24th and our proud representatives from Cork were in action in the first game against Greece side Heraklio. It was the best possible start as they won that game 1 - 0.
On the next day, June 25th, they had two games to play. The first in the morning against a side they had come across last year, Los Gatos from California. This ended in a 0 - 0 draw. Then that evening they played Kitchener from Canada but this time it ended in defeat for the girls, going down 2 - 0. Two games in this heat might just have been too much for our fair skinned girls.
On Friday June 26th, they played their final game against local side Athens and drew 0 - 0 which meant they qualified for the semi-final and a chance to gain revenge against Kitchener. Unfortunately despite putting up a great performance, they went down 0 - 1 to the Canadians.
This left them in the tie for 3rd and 4th place against Athens, who they had drawn with previously. Again there was nothing between the sides and the game went all the way to penalties, where the local side came out on top.
So ended a tiring but exciting week for the girls who gave a great account of themselves and return home with pride in their performances.
