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September 2008

Pancyprian Freedoms National Champions in Soccer

The NY Pancyprian Freedoms returned from Seattle as United States National Champions. After capturing the Region I Championship by defeating Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Maryland, they went to Seattle, Washington for the Final Four.

In the semi-finals, they knocked out the Midwest region champion from Chicago, RWB Adria, with a score of 5-3. In the finals, they faced the Western region champions from Arizona, Sahvarus, part of the National Premier League and the Pancyprians prevailed 2-1 in double overtime.

During this past year, the following American-born players participated in 25 games to become United States Champions: Stelios Andreou, Nick Christopher, Panariotis Halkides, Christian Jordanou, Nick Katsanos, Stefanos Kazantzis, Chris Megaloudes, Andreas Paphitis, Peter Pavlakos, Anastasios Polydefkis, John Simos, Harris Tsangaris and Christos Zissimatos.

President of the Athletic Division is Lefteris Eliades, General Managers George Halkides and Martinos Kyprianou, Head Coach Luka Lukovic, and Assistant Coach Klitos Ioannou.

The NY Pancyprian Freedoms won the National Championship in 1980, 1982, 1983 with the great team of Mimis Papaioannou. In 2008, 25 years later, they won the championship with kids that came up through the Eleftheria-Pancyprian youth system.the violence of war in on itself.

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