European Championship 2008 - Greece
Should the Greeks be getting over excited at the possibility of defending their Euro win of four years ago? They have sailed through to this years finals heading Group C ahead of Turkey and Norway but this was not the strongest of Groups. They may just be getting ahead of themselves but they will come in to the 2008 Euro Championships full of confidence and this can go a long way and at odds of 33/1 with Paddy Power this is an interesting bet for lightening to strike twice.
Having already made it into the finals they put on an exhibition performance against Malta winning 5-0 but life will only get tougher for the team that caused such a shock in 2004.
Player To Watch - Theofanis Gekas
With a name like Gekas of Wall Street Film fame we have to put him up as the Greece Star player, if nothing else for his name and also for his hat trick he scored in their match against Malta in the qualifying stages. Greece will be looking for him to reproduce this feat in the summer if they are to make it to the final stages in 2008 and he maybe an interesting top goalscorer bet at very big prices.
| No. |
Player |
Date of Birth |
Caps |
Goals |
Position |
| Euro 2008 Squad |
| 1 |
Antonios Nikopolidis |
14/01/1971 (37) |
86 |
0 |
Goalkeeper |
| 12 |
Konstantinos Chalkias |
30/03/1974 (34) |
15 |
0 |
Goalkeeper |
| 13 |
Alexandros Tzorvas |
12/08/1982 (25) |
0 |
0 |
Goalkeeper |
| 2 |
Giourkas Seitaridis |
04/06/1981 (27) |
55 |
1 |
Defender |
| 3 |
Christos Patsatzogolou |
19/06/1979 (28) |
28 |
1 |
Defender |
| 4 |
Nikos Spiropoulos |
10/10/1983 (24) |
4 |
0 |
Defender |
| 5 |
Traianos Dellas |
31/01/1976 (32) |
41 |
1 |
Defender |
| 11 |
Loukas Vyntra |
05/02/1981 (27) |
18 |
0 |
Defender |
| 15 |
Vasilis Torosidis |
10/06/1985 (22) |
12 |
0 |
Defender |
| 16 |
Sotirios Kyrgiakos |
01/01/1970 (38) |
37 |
4 |
Defender |
| 18 |
Yannis Goumas |
24/03/1975 (33) |
45 |
0 |
Defender |
| 19 |
Paraskevas Antzas |
18/08/1976 (31) |
23 |
0 |
Defender |
| 6 |
Angelos Basinas |
03/01/1976 (32) |
87 |
7 |
Midfielder |
| 8 |
Stelios Giannakopoulos |
12/07/1974 (33) |
74 |
12 |
Midfielder |
| 10 |
Giorgos Karagounis |
06/07/1977 (30) |
72 |
6 |
Midfielder |
| 21 |
Kostas Katsouranis |
21/06/1979 (28) |
48 |
6 |
Midfielder |
| 22 |
Alexandros Tziolis |
13/02/1985 (23) |
8 |
0 |
Midfielder |
| 7 |
Georgios Samaras |
21/02/1985 (23) |
17 |
3 |
Forward |
| 9 |
Angelos Charisteas |
09/02/1980 (28) |
64 |
18 |
Forward |
| 14 |
Dimitrios Salpigidis |
10/08/1981 (26) |
19 |
1 |
Forward |
| 17 |
Theofanis Gekas |
23/03/1980 (28) |
26 |
6 |
Forward |
| 20 |
Ioannis Amanatidis |
03/12/1981 (26) |
25 |
3 |
Forward |
| 23 |
Nikolaos Lyberopoulos |
04/09/1975 (32) |
59 |
13 |
Forward |
DATE
HOME TEAM
SCORE
AWAY TEAM
EURO 2008 QUALIFICATION GROUP C RESULTS
21 November 2007
Hungary
Greece
17 November 2007
Greece
Malta
17 October 2007
Turkey
Greece
13 October 2007
Greece
Bosnia-Herzegovina
12 September 2007
Norway
Greece
06 June 2007
Greece
Moldova
02 June 2007
Greece
Hungary
28 March 2007
Malta
Greece
24 March 2007
Greece
Turkey
11 October 2006
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Greece
07 October 2006
Greece
Norway
02 September 2006
Moldova
Greece
| |
TEAM |
PLD |
W |
D |
L |
GF |
GA |
GD |
PTS |
| EURO 2008 QUALIFICATION GROUP C TABLE |
| 1 |
Greece |
12 |
10 |
1 |
1 |
25 |
10 |
15 |
31 |
| 2 |
Turkey |
12 |
7 |
3 |
2 |
25 |
11 |
14 |
24 |
| 3 |
Norway |
12 |
7 |
2 |
3 |
27 |
11 |
16 |
23 |
| 4 |
Bosnia-Herzegovina |
12 |
4 |
1 |
7 |
16 |
22 |
-6 |
13 |
| 5 |
Moldova |
12 |
3 |
3 |
6 |
12 |
19 |
-7 |
12 |
| 6 |
Hungary |
12 |
4 |
0 |
8 |
11 |
22 |
-11 |
12 |
| 7 |
Malta |
12 |
1 |
2 |
9 |
10 |
31 |
-21 |
5 |
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