European Football Championship 2012 / Greece

This article covers the Greek national team at the 2012 European Football Championship in Poland and Ukraine . Greece participated for the fourth time. Since winning the title in 2004 , Greece has always been there.

qualification

Greece completed the qualification for the European Championship in Group F .

Games

All results from a Greek perspective.

date	Venue	opponent	Result	Goal scorers
09/03/2010	Piraeus	Georgia	1: 1 (0: 1)	0: 1 Iaschwili (3rd), 1: 1 Spyropoulos (72nd)
07.09.2010	Zagreb ( HRV )	Croatia	0: 0 (0: 0)
10/08/2010	Piraeus	Latvia	1: 0 (0: 0)	1-0 Torosidis (58th)
10/12/2010	Piraeus	Israel	2: 1 (1: 0)	1: 0 Salpingidis (22nd), 1: 1 Spyropoulos (59./ET), 2: 1 Karagounis (63./E)
03/26/2011	Ta'Qali ( MLT )	Malta	1: 0 (1: 0)	1-0 Torosidis (90th + 2nd)
06/04/2011	Piraeus	Malta	3: 1 (2: 0)	1: 0, 3: 1 Fetfatzidis (3rd, 63rd), 2: 0 Papadopoulos (26th), 2: 1 Mifsud (54th)
02.09.2011	Tel Aviv ( ISR )	Israel	1: 0 (0: 0)	1-0 Ninis (60th)
09/06/2011	Riga ( LVA )	Latvia	1: 1 (0: 1)	0: 1 Cauņa (19th), 1: 1 Papadopoulos (84th)
07/10/2011	Piraeus	Croatia	2: 0 (0: 0)	1: 0 Samaras (71.), 2: 0 Gekas (79.)
10/11/2011	Tbilisi ( GEO )	Georgia	2: 1 (0: 1)	0: 1 Targamadze (19th), 1: 1 Charisteas (85th), 2: 1 Gekas (90th + 1st)

table

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
1	Greece	10	7th	3	0	14: 05	24
2	Croatia	10	7th	1	2	18: 07	22nd
3	Israel	10	5	1	4th	13:11	16
4th	Latvia	10	3	2	5	09:12	11
5	Georgia	10	2	4th	4th	07: 09	10
6th	Malta	10	0	1	9	04:21	01

Contingent

On May 29, 2012, the final squad for the 2012 European Football Championship was named. The most experienced players were Giorgos Karagounis and Kostas Katsouranis , who were also used to win the 2004 title and the 2008 qualifying round. The 36-year-old Nikos Liberopoulos was surprisingly nominated, who had already announced his resignation from the national team in 2009. Not in the squad was Angelos Charisteas , who scored the decisive goal to win the title in 2004 and was instrumental in the victory in the last qualifying game.

Jersey no.	player	society	debut	Calls	Gates	Date of birth	size	EM games	Sp.	Gates	red	G / R	yellow
goalkeeper
01	Konstantinos Chalkias	PAOK Thessaloniki	11/10/2001	32	0	05/30/1974	199 cm		2
13	Michalis Sifakis	Aris Thessaloniki	October 14, 2009	15th	0	09/09/1984	189 cm		3
12	Alexandros Tzorvas	US Palermo	11/19/2008	16	0	08/12/1982	190 cm
Defense
20th	José Holebas	Olympiacos Piraeus	11/11/2011	7th	0	06/27/1984	184 cm		3				2
04th	Stelios Malezas	PAOK Thessaloniki	11/15/2011	2	0	03/11/1985	193 cm
08th	Avraam Papadopoulos	Olympiacos Piraeus	09/10/2008	34	0	December 3rd, 1984	188 cm		1
05	Kyriakos Papadopoulos	FC Schalke 04	06/04/2011	12	3	02/23/1992	183 cm		4th				1
19th	Socratis	Werder Bremen	02/06/2008	31	0	06/09/1988	183 cm		3			1	1
15th	Vasilios Torosidis	Olympiacos Piraeus	03/24/2007	48	6th	06/10/1985	188 cm	2 (2008)	4th				1
03	Giorgos Tzavelas	AS Monaco	07.09.2010	8th	0	11/26/1987	183 cm		2
midfield
23	Ioannis Fetfatzidis	Olympiacos Piraeus	10/08/2010	13	3	December 21, 1990	165 cm
22nd	Konstantinos Fortounis	1. FC Kaiserslautern	02/29/2012	5	0	10/16/1992	183 cm		2
16	Giorgos Fotakis	PAOK Thessaloniki	October 14, 2009	12	2	October 29, 1981	175 cm		2
10	Giorgos Karagounis	Panathinaikos Athens	08/20/1999	120	9	03/06/1977	176 cm	4 (2004), 3 (2008)	3	1			2
21st	Kostas Katsouranis	Panathinaikos Athens	08/20/2003	95	9	06/21/1979	183 cm	6 (2004), 3 (2008)	4th
06th	Grigoris Makos	AEK Athens	05/19/2008	13	0	01/18/1987	185 cm		2
02	Ioannis Maniatis	Olympiacos Piraeus	08/11/2010	13	0	10/12/1986	196 cm		4th
18th	Sotiris Ninis	Panathinaikos Athens	05/19/2008	22nd	2	04/03/1990	173 cm		3
attack
17th	Theofanis Gekas	Samsunspor	03/30/2005	62	22nd	May 23, 1980	179 cm	2 (2008)	4th	1
09	Nikos Liberopoulos	AEK Athens	01/24/1996	76	13	08/04/1975	186 cm	1 (2008)	1
11	Konstantinos Mitroglou	Atromitos Athens	11/14/2009	14th	0	03/12/1988	188 cm		1
14th	Dimitrios Salpingidis	PAOK Thessaloniki	08/17/2005	60	9	08/18/1981	172 cm	1 (2008)	4th	2			1
07th	Giorgos Samaras	Celtic Glasgow	02/28/2006	57	8th	02/21/1985	193 cm	1 (2008)	4th	1			1
Trainer
	Fernando Santos	Portugal	07/01/2010			10/10/1954			4th

Status: June 22, 2012 (after the game against Germany)

preparation

Greece played two test matches just before the European Championship: In Kufstein , the team played against Slovenia on May 26th (1-1, goalscorer: Vassilios Torosidis ) and on May 31st against Armenia (1-0, goalscorer: Kyriakos Papadopoulos ).

Games of Greece

Preliminary round

Greece denied the preliminary round in Group A . Greece, as well as Russia and the Czech Republic, were drawn into the hosted Polish team. The record against the Czech Republic was positive before the EM with 1 win and 2 draws, the victory in the semifinals of the EM 2004 with the last silver goal brought the Greek team the first final. Against Poland the record was negative with 3 wins and 2 draws out of 10 defeats before the European Championship. Both have never met at a European Championship finals. Against Russia the record is negative with 1 win, 5 draws and 3 defeats before the EM. The last time they met in Piraeus was on November 11, 2011 and they parted 1: 1. At the last European Championship, Greece lost 1-0 to Russia in the preliminary round and four years earlier the 2-1 defeat was Greece's only defeat at the European Championship, but no longer relevant for reaching the quarter-finals.

All preliminary round matches of the Greek team took place in Poland .

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Czech Republic	3	2	0	1	004: 500	−1	06th
2.	Greece	3	1	1	1	003: 300	± 0	04th
3.	Russia	3	1	1	1	005: 300	+2	04th
4th	Poland	3	0	2	1	002: 300	−1	02
The direct comparison is decisive for placing 2 and 3 (see mode ).

Friday, June 8, 2012, 6:00 p.m. in Warsaw
Poland	-	Greece	1: 1 (1: 0)
Tuesday, June 12, 2012, 6 p.m. in Wroclaw
Greece	-	Czech Republic	1: 2 (0: 2)
Saturday, June 16, 2012, 8:45 p.m. in Warsaw
Greece	-	Russia	1: 0 (1: 0)

Quarter finals

Greece reached the quarter-finals for the second time, in which they met Germany, the group winners of Group B. Before the EM there were eight games against Germany, three of which ended in a draw and five were lost. They last met on March 28, 2001 in Athens as part of the 2002 World Cup qualification. In the 2: 4, Nikos Liberopoulos , Giorgos Karagounis and Miroslav Klose , who scored the goal for the meanwhile 2: 3, were involved from the current EM squads .

Klose, who scored 3-1 in the meantime, and Liberopoulos were also used when they met again, Karagounis was suspended due to the second yellow card received in the game against Russia.

The Greek team played with a mourning ribbon, since the former national coach Alketas Panagoulias , with whom the European Championship finals were reached in 1980, died on June 18, 2012.

Friday, June 22, 2012, 8:45 p.m. in Gdansk
Germany	-	Greece	4: 2 (1: 0)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ UEFA.com: Fortounis in Greece's EURO squad
2. ↑ 4: 2! Germany cracks the Greek bulwark
3. ↑ Greece mourns Alketas Panagoulias