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  "name": "UEFA EURO 2004 (champions - Greece)",
  "summary": "EURO 2004 ended in Lisbon on 4 July 2004 with Greece beating hosts Portugal 1-0, Angelos Charisteas heading in Angelos Basinas's corner early in the second half. Greece had started as 80-1 outsiders and Portugal became the first host nation to lose a European Championship final.",
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  "questions": [
    "Who won Euro 2004?",
    "How did Greece win the European Championship?",
    "Who scored in the Euro 2004 final?"
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      "text": "Greece beat hosts Portugal 1-0 in the UEFA EURO 2004 final in Lisbon on 4 July 2004, Angelos Charisteas scoring the only goal, and Portugal became the first host nation to lose a European Championship final.",
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      "text": "Greece had begun the tournament as 80-1 outsiders, and UEFA's own match report calls the result arguably the biggest shock at a major football tournament.",
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      "text": "The goal came early in the second half: a surging right-wing run by Giourkas Seitaridis won a corner, Angelos Basinas swung it over and Charisteas climbed above Costinha to head in from close range. Costinha was withdrawn immediately afterwards for Rui Costa, on 60 minutes.",
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      "confidence": 0.94
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    {
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      "text": "Otto Rehhagel's Greece made one change from the semi-final, Stelios Giannakopoulos replacing the suspended Georgios Karagounis, while Luiz Felipe Scolari kept the side that had beaten the Netherlands, with Pauleta preferred to the in-form Nuno Gomes. Theodoros Zagorakis captained Greece and Antonios Nikopolidis kept goal.",
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      "confidence": 0.94
    }
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  "winning_edge": "Retellings keep the Charisteas header and lose everything that produced it. This carries the full sequence from UEFA's report filed the day of the final - who won the corner, who took it, who Charisteas beat in the air, and the substitution that followed - plus the record the night set: first host nation to lose a EURO final.",
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