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unusual facts about Cyprus national football team



Ayios Dhometios

George Anastasiades, current captain of the National Basketball Team; Christos Stylianides, all time legend of Cyprus basketball and Yiannos Ioannou, former captain of the National Football Team all come from Ayios Dhometios.

CD Badajoz

On 8 September 1999 Spain beat Cyprus 8–0 in an UEFA Euro 2000 qualifier; nearly seven years later, on 2 September 2006, the national side defeated Liechtenstein 4–0 in the qualifying stages of Euro 2008.

Francisco Vital

As a Porto player, Vital appeared once for Portugal, playing 45 minutes in a 4–0 home win against Cyprus for the 1978 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, and scoring the third.

Jetmir Sefa

He is also part of the Albanian national team and has been since 2009 after being included in the squad by Croatian coach Josip Kuže for the record breaking 6-1 destruction of Cyprus on 12 August 2009 at the Qemal Stafa Stadium.

Julen Guerrero

Among Guerrero's personal international highlights were hat-tricks against Malta (3–0 in Attard, on 18 December 1996) and Cyprus (8–0, 8 September 1999).

Lambros Lambrou

Lambros Lambrou (born September 9, 1977 in Famagusta, Cyprus) is a former international Cypriot football defender who last played for Nea Salamis Famagusta FC and previously for Ermis Aradippou and the national team of Cyprus.

Panikos Krystallis

After his playing career was over, Krystallis coached various clubs including AEL Limassol, Apollon Limassol, Evagoras and the Cyprus national football team.

Rainer Rauffmann

Rauffmann won his second championship with Omonia in 2002–03, at the age of 36, scoring a total of 41 goals in 40 official matches, and also reaching the Cyprus national team, playing five matches in one year.

Siniša Gogić

Siniša Gogić (Serbian Cyrillic: Синиша Гогић; Greek alphabet: Σίνισα Γκόγκιτς, born October 20, 1963) is a former Serbian-born Cypriot football striker who played for Yugoslav clubs Radnički Niš and FK Rad, for the Greek football team Olympiacos (1997–2000), the Cypriot teams APOEL, Anorthosis Famagusta and Olympiakos Nicosia and Cyprus national football team.


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