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Wed 11 Nov 2002Givens on rebuilding mission in AthensSOCCER: In a city  where the most precious monuments are the ruins left by foreigners who came bent on destruction, Don Givens hopes this evening to initiate a process of reconstruction within the Republic of Ireland's battered national team set-up, writes Emmet Malone in AthensThe strength of the squad he has brought to Athens this week obviously says something about the status of this evening's game at the city's Panathinaikos stadium. But Givens has insisted all week that a win could spark a revival in Ireland's fading European Championships fortunes and that several of the players he is entrusting with the task of achieving it are being presented with the sort of opportunity that rarely comes along when all is well and a team is winning.