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unusual facts about Greece national football team



1953–54 Israel State Cup

Both teams requested the postponement as they had major players injured after the Israel's 1954 FIFA World Cup qualification matches at Greece and Yugoslavia.

Arturo Angeles

Arturo Angeles (born September 12, 1953) is a retired football (soccer) referee from the United States, best known for supervising one match (Argentina-Greece) during the 1994 FIFA World Cup in his native country.

Carlo Ceresoli

With the Italian national team he played the only qualifying match of the 1934 FIFA World Cup against Greece and the famous Battle of Highbury in which he saved a penalty from Eric Brook.

Gert Dörfel

He represented Germany 11 times, including 1962 FIFA World Cup qualifiers against Northern Ireland (scoring two goals) and Greece (scoring one goal), 1966 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Sweden and eight friendlies.

Giorgos Kalafatis

In 1919, he was a member of the Greece national team that participated in the Inter-Allied Games in Paris.

Michalis Sifakis

In the summer 2012 after the Euro 2012 with Greek national team, Sifakis signed a 1-year contract with Belgian team R. Charleroi S.C., wearing number 1.

Paraskevas Antzas

He changed his mind and signed with Doxa Drama, on loan from Olympiakos, and consequently he lost his place in the Greece, and he regained it years after in 2007 when he returned to Olympiacos from Skoda Xanthi.

Rolando Gonçalves

He won the Cup of Portugal in the 1967/68 season game in which defeated FC Porto V. Setubal 2-1.After taking over as one of the best central defenders of his generation, Rolando would be required to represent the National A selection, and was finally the international 8 times,Rolando gained 8 caps for Portugal and made his debut 11 December 1968 in Piraeus against Greece, in a 2-4 defeat.

Stelios Giannakopoulos

One of his most important and memorable goals with the Greek national team was during those qualifiers; Stelios scoring the only goal in a 1–0 away victory against Spain in Zaragoza, in a game which ensured automatic qualification for Greece.


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