Greek national team will select 25 names prepared for the upcoming
Euro 2012. Later there will be two players are eliminated from the squad provosional still inhabited old faces.
It is delivered Greece coach, Fernando Santos, as announced to-25 name, Thursday (17/05/2012) yesterday. Alignment of that name, Santos still include the names of ordinary older strengthen the "Hellas".
Among them was the Panathinaikos midfielder, Giorgos Karagounis and AEK Athens striker Nikos Libeopoulos and PAOK Salonika goalkeeper, Costas Chalkias. All three are aged over 35 years.
Then there are also other names such as Giorgos Samaras and Theofanis Gekas on the front line's 2004 European champions. But still there are some young players hope brought by the Greeks as Yiannis Fetfatzidis Santos, Kyriakos Papadopoulos and Costas Fortounis.
Greece will undergo a training camp in Austria before the later counter-inaugural melakoni Poland June 8 next football party and open European countries. Their opponents in the other Group A Czech Republic and Russia.
Reuters quoted the Greek squad
Goalkeepers: Costas Chalkias (PAOK Salonica), Michalis Sifakis (Aris Salonica), Alexis Tzorvas (Palermo).
Defenders: Avraam Papadopoulos (Olympiakos Pireaus), Sokratis Papastathopoulos (Werder Bremen), Vassilis Torosidis (Olympiakos Pireaus), Jose Holebas (Olympiakos Pireaus), Stelios Malezas (PAOK Salonica), Yiannis Maniatis (Olympiakos Pireaus), Giorgos Tzavellas (Monaco), Kyriakos Papadopoulos (Schalke).
Midfielders: Yiannis Fetfatzidis (Olympiakos Pireaus), Grigoris Makos (AEK Athens), Costas Katsouranis (Panathinaikos), Giorgos Fotakis (PAOK Salonica), Costas Fortounis (Kaiserslautern), Giorgos Karagounis (Panathinaikos), Alexandros Tziolis (Monaco), Sotiris Ninis ( Panathinaikos), Panayiotis Kone (Bologna).
Attackers: Giorgos Samaras (Celtic), Dimitris Salpigidis (PAOK Salonica), Costas Mitroglou (Olympiakos Pireaus), Nikos Liberopoulos (AEK Athens), Fanis Gekas (Samsunspor)
