{"id":13017,"date":"2026-06-26T13:36:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T10:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=13017"},"modified":"2026-06-26T13:36:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T10:36:00","slug":"nikos-dambizas-on-allwyn-game-time-the-two-favorites-and-the-likely-top-scorer-of-the-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=13017","title":{"rendered":"Nikos Dambizas on Allwyn Game Time: \u201cThe two favorites and the likely top scorer of the World Cup\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Nikos Dambizas<\/b> is a guest on the show <b><i>Allwyn Game Time<\/i>,<\/b> in yet another episode dedicated to the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The 2004 European Champion<b>, <\/b>offers his own soccer perspective on the crucial <b>Uruguay-Spain match,<\/b> highlighting the former\u2019s defensive instability and giving the European Champion a clear edge. He also discusses <b>all the matches in the final round<\/b> of the group stage. It highlights <b>Morocco,<\/b> the <b>United States<\/b>, and <b>Japan<\/b> as the surprise teams so far.<\/b> She believes that <b>France <\/b> and <b>England<\/b> are the top contenders to win the trophy, while he sees <b>Kylian Mbapp\u00e9<\/b> as the favorite to win the top scorer title.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.cachefly.net\/tomanifesto\/images\/placeholder.png\" alt=\"photo-1-21.jpg\" data-dpc-media-id=\"191511\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.cachefly.net\/image\/large\/96\/photo-1-21.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<p>Speaking about World Cups throughout history, he mentions that he would have liked to have worn the Brazilian jersey and played alongside a legend like <b>Zinedine Zidane,<\/b> and highlights as the greatest goals of all time those scored by <b>Diego Maradona<\/b> in 1986 and <b>Marco Tardelli<\/b> in 1982.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.cachefly.net\/tomanifesto\/images\/placeholder.png\" alt=\"photo-4-8.jpg\" data-dpc-media-id=\"191510\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.cachefly.net\/image\/large\/96\/photo-4-8.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<p>He selects <b>Lionel Messi<\/b> for \u201cthe last game of his life,\u201d describing him as \u201ca soccer player from another planet,\u201d puts together his ideal attacking trio, trusts <b>Anton\u00edn Panenka <\/b> to take a crucial penalty kick in the 90th minute, and chooses <b>Roy Keane<\/b> as the ideal co-host for a TV show.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.cachefly.net\/tomanifesto\/images\/placeholder.png\" alt=\"photo-3-16.jpg\" data-dpc-media-id=\"191509\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.cachefly.net\/image\/large\/96\/photo-3-16.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<p>Finally, he accepts the challenge from <b>Christina Vrachali<\/b>, offering brief but apt descriptions of top soccer players who have competed in the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the full episode:<\/p>\n<div class=\"oembed_media\" data-embed-provider=\"YouTube\">\n<div class=\"dp-youtube-video dp-embed-video\" data-embed=\"LrY1z_bm00c\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LrY1z_bm00c?feature=oembed\">\n<div class=\"play-button\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><i>Game Time supports the \u201cAllwyn Sports Academies <\/i><i>,\u201d by providing additional sports equipment to the 200 academies participating in the program.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nikos Dambizas is a guest on the Allwyn Game Time show, in yet another episode dedicated to the World Cup.<br \/>\nThe 2004 European Champion, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-greece"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}