Fernando Santos Portuguese head coach of Greece National Football team named the main staff which will play against Georgia on September 3 and against Croatia on September 7. Among them are midfielder P.Kone of “Brescia” and forward A.Petropolous of “Panathinaikos”. As for defernder S. Kyrgiakos “Liverpol” and attacker Y.Amanathidis “Eintracht” finished team career. Both of them stated “one day we will say everything what is happening in team”.
On September 3 Santos as well as Temur Ketsbaia will hold first official match in this team. It is worth mentioning that both of them spent some period in “AEK”, Santos was head coach while Ketsbaia was one of the leaders in the club in 1994-997 and won Greece Cup twice.

Greece-Georgia had five matches and the Greek won five times, one match among five was friendly match. Georgians were winning at the beginning in 3 matches from 5… Score was the following: 1:2 in 1996 (friendly, in Greece), 0:3 in 1998 (in Greece), 1:2 in 1999 (Interior), 1:3 in 2005 (Interior), 0:1 in 2005 (In Greece). Greek main staff is the following:

Goalkeepers: A. Tsorvas (Panathinaikos), M. Sifakis (“Aris”);
Defenders: L. Vyntra, G. Seitaridis,  N. Spiropoulos (Panathinaikos), N. Papastathopoulos (“AC Milan”), A. Papadopoulos (Olympiakos),  S. Malezas (Paok), G. Tsavelas (Eintracht, Germany), Y. Maniatis (Panionisi);
Midfielders: K. Katsouranis,  S. Ninis, G. Karagounis (Panathinaikos), A. Tziolis(Rasing, Spain),  V. Torosidis (Olympiakos), P. Kapetanos (AEK), P. Kone (Brescia , Italy);

Forwards: D. Salpingidis (Paok), G. Samaras (Serltik, Scotland), K.Mitroghlu (Olympiakos), A. Petropoulus (Panathinaikos), T. Gekas (Eintracht, Germany)

On September 3 Greece-Georgia match is to start at 22:45 at Stadio “Georgios Karaiskáki” (Pireás (Piraeus)). Spanish Karlos Klos Gomes will be referee.

Ilia Nanobashvili