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A magnificent triumph of team effort at the the European Maccabi Games

August 6, 2015 12:20

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Danny Caro,

Danny Caro

1 min read

It's been a monumental 10 days, ground-breaking in fact. And how they pulled it off I just don't know. With 2,500 athletes in one hotel, the after party turned into one of the biggest Jew-dos of all time.

I almost had the shirt pulled off my back at the closing ceremony of the European Maccabi Games in Berlin. They just didn't want to go home.

There has been a tremendous camaraderie around the city and the locals seemed genuinely interested, unlike at the Maccabiah. Junior athletes were picking the brains of Masters, including Danny Schweiger and Pete Lazard, who between them have accumulated 27 international Maccabi Games.

It was a real team effort as well, regardless of the result. Athletes turned up in their droves to support their team-mates, and it certainly helped in the case of the Open Futsal teams who raised their game to new levels against Australia.