{"id":13151,"date":"2026-06-27T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T09:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=13151"},"modified":"2026-06-27T12:12:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T09:12:00","slug":"mitsotakis-in-nea-smyrni-passes-serves-dice-rolls-and-a-tricolor-bite-at-the-world-cup-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=13151","title":{"rendered":"Mitsotakis in Nea Smyrni: passes, serves, dice rolls, and a \u201ctricolor\u201d bite at the World Cup (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>     In <strong data-start=\"1518\" data-end=\"1532\">Nea Smyrni<\/strong> on Friday (6\/26) the Prime Minister <strong data-start=\"1581\" data-end=\"1604\">Kyriakos Mitsotakis<\/strong>, continuing his visits to neighborhoods across the country. <\/p>\n<p>     During his tour, he spoke with residents and business owners, and also visited the <strong data-start=\"1764\" data-end=\"1778\">Milon Camp<\/strong>, where sports and creative activities for children are held daily. <\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.cachefly.net\/tomanifesto\/images\/placeholder.png\" alt=\"3-iWt25.JPG\" data-dpc-media-id=\"191580\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.cachefly.net\/image\/large\/96\/3-iWt25.JPG\"><\/figure>\n<p>     He also posted moments from the visit on social media, accompanying the video with the message:\u00a0\u201c<strong data-start=\"1982\" data-end=\"2155\">In Nea Smyrni, to visit our young friends at Milon Camp, to talk with shop owners and other citizens, and also for a really intense game of backgammon!<\/strong>\u201d Kyriakos Mitsotakis: Messages on sports     The first stop on the visit was <strong data-start=\"2251\" data-end=\"2265\">Milon Camp<\/strong>, the summer program of the historic <strong data-start=\"2318\" data-end=\"2331\">\u201cMilon\u201d Athletic Club<\/strong>. The prime minister toured the facilities, watched the sports activities, and talked with the children about the sports they love, as well as the teams they support in the <strong data-start=\"2523\" data-end=\"2556\">FIFA World Cup<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2559\" data-end=\"2794\">     In the video, he is seen playing <strong data-start=\"2605\" data-end=\"2614\">tennis<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"2619\" data-end=\"2634\">soccer<\/strong>, while encouraging children to spend more time playing sports and engaging in activities with their friends, and to limit their use of cell phones. <\/p>\n<figure>     <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.cachefly.net\/tomanifesto\/images\/placeholder.png\" alt=\"1-4eHzy.jpg\" data-dpc-media-id=\"191581\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.cachefly.net\/image\/large\/96\/1-4eHzy.jpg\"> <\/figure>\n<h2 data-section-id=\"zfxyek\" data-start=\"2796\" data-end=\"2845\">     Discussions with citizens and&#8230; a game of backgammon <\/h2>\n<p data-start=\"2847\" data-end=\"3011\">     Next, <strong data-start=\"2862\" data-end=\"2885\">Kyriakos Mitsotakis<\/strong> walked through the market in <strong data-start=\"2911\" data-end=\"2927\">Nea Smyrni<\/strong> market, where he spoke with shop owners and residents about everyday issues. <\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3013\" data-end=\"3270\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\n<p>     The tour concluded at a caf\u00e9 where the <strong data-start=\"3084\" data-end=\"3119\">Tavli Friends Cultural Club<\/strong> holds its events. There, the prime minister spoke with the club\u2019s members and sat down at the table for a game of <strong data-start=\"3211\" data-end=\"3220\">backgammon<\/strong>, wrapping up his visit on a more relaxed note. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n    Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis visited Nea Smyrni on Friday (June 26), continuing his&nbsp;tours of neighborhoods across the country&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13151","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=13151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}