{"id":9930,"date":"2026-06-10T13:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T10:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=9930"},"modified":"2026-06-10T13:02:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T10:02:00","slug":"allwyn-game-time-at-the-rhythm-of-the-world-cup-with-antonis-karpetopoulos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=9930","title":{"rendered":"Allwyn Game Time at the rhythm of the World Cup with Antonis Karpetopoulos"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><b>The well-known journalist picks the favourites and builds the ideal all-time backline with Franz Beckenbauer on the bench<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <b>World Cup kicks off<\/b> on Thursday and <b>Allwyn <\/b><b>Game<\/b><b>Time<\/b> welcomes one of Greek football&#8217;s most experienced analysts, <b>Antonis Karpetopoulos.<\/b><\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.cachefly.net\/tomanifesto\/images\/placeholder.png\" alt=\"photo-1-2.png\" data-dpc-media-id=\"190162\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.cachefly.net\/image\/large\/96\/photo-1-2.png\"><\/figure>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.cachefly.net\/tomanifesto\/images\/placeholder.png\" alt=\"photo-2-2.png\" data-dpc-media-id=\"190163\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.cachefly.net\/image\/large\/96\/photo-2-2.png\"><\/figure>\n<p>With his trademark style, which combines knowledge and humour, the accomplished journalist gets the audience into the mood of the event early on, starting with the opening game between <b>Mexico<\/b> and <b>South Africa<\/b>. He also explains why he sees <b>France<\/b> as the early favourites to win the trophy, and makes predictions for the <b>top scorer<\/b> and <b>MVP<\/b> of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>He analyses the <b>6 first games<\/b> of the competition and presents his own &#8220;ideal squad&#8221; of all World Cups with <b>Francis Beckenbauer<\/b> on the bench.<\/p>\n<p>He recalls the match that is indelibly etched in his memory, singles out <b>Marcello Lippi<\/b> as the most charismatic coach he has ever known and stresses that <b>Giorgos Karagounis<\/b> was the player he changed his mind about when he met him off the pitch.<\/p>\n<p>He reveals the team he would like to manage, showing with humour his willingness for&#8230; twists and turns in the Greek football scene. Finally, he accepts the challenge of <b>Christina Vrachali<\/b> and tests his knowledge in a game with real and&#8230;AI football quotes.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the full episode:<\/p>\n<div class=\"oembed_media\" data-emebed-provider=\"YouTube\">\n<div class=\"dp-youtube-video dp-embed-video\" data-embed=\"76UjkPQKCsk\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/76UjkPQKCsk?feature=oembed\">\n<div class=\"play-button\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><i>Game Time supports the &#8220;Sports Academies <\/i><i>Allwyn&#8221; program, providing additional sports equipment to the 200 academies participating in the program.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The well-known journalist selects the favourites and builds the ideal backline of all time with Franz Beckenbauer on the bench<br \/>\nThe World &#8230;<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9930","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\/9930","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=9930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}