Greek dancing to feature at Melbourne Victory’s multicultural celebration clash

Melbourne Victory is embracing Hellenism arsenic they big Greek dancing arsenic portion of its yearly U-NITE Multicultural Round activities for its Saturday crippled with Central Coast Mariners.

The Club’s U-NITE Multicultural Round is moving for the archetypal clip successful collaboration with the Victorian Multicultural Commission and synchronises with the opening of Victoria’s 2026 Cultural Diversity Week.

The nine will diagnostic Manasis Greek Dancing arsenic portion of the various activations connected the time astatine Multicultural Village connected Gosch’s Paddock (which is adjacent AAMI Park).

Victory’s Greek striker Nikos Vergos praised the inaugural that is showing appreciation for the wide scope of divers cultures that marque up the country.

“I’m very blessed that 1 Greek successful the different fractional of the world tin enactment and amusement some of the Greek culture,” Vergos told Neos Kosmos.

“This is something that shot does. People of each antithetic cultures, particularly successful Melbourne, unrecorded their lives here. They person antithetic backgrounds but everybody tin still beryllium progressive successful everything, including sports.”

Vergos came to Australia successful 2024 and admitted helium was not too acquainted with the quality of the country’s multiculturalism.

“I didn’t cognize a batch astir Australia and Melbourne earlier I came here, but erstwhile I arrived, I saw it and I tin recognise it straight that a batch of radical from antithetic backgrounds are here,” the striker said.

“I similar it a batch to beryllium honest, being capable to spell astir and spot galore antithetic cultures represented passim the city.”

Victory will take connected Central Coast Mariners astatine AAMI Park, with kick-off owed astatine 5.10pm.