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First international
<\/STRONG>Greece 1–4 Italy (Athens, Greece; 7 April 1929)

Biggest win
<\/STRONG>Greece 8–0 Syria (Athens, Greece; 25 November 1949)

Biggest defeat
<\/STRONG>Hungary 11–1 Greece (Budapest, Hungary; 25 March 1938)

Most caps
<\/STRONG>Giorgos Karagounis (132)

Top scorer
<\/STRONG>Nikos Anastopoulos (29)<\/P>","5B70C105C09228B419825F9D2D3BB765":"","B9284411187FEFF20D941F8E3FDF6E1E":"Spain,Uruguay","10F46377A2D9EE76FE37CF1F7D8CD961E656BCF9304C68C6":"1926","989AD94B51E25F0B":"111","5F7B7520852B84068F743240139E0997":"

European Championship
<\/STRONG>Winners (1): 2004

World Soccer
<\/STRONG>World Team of the Year 2004

FIFA Fair Play Award
<\/STRONG>FIFA Fair Play Trophy 2005

Laureus World Sports Awards
<\/STRONG>Team of the Year 2005<\/P>","F3825434658EC407":"","5BAF7C8A60756B5496BBA4CBC6C0BED8DD63717CA1BB6492":"1","781CC09C30E6A152":"1","D649C50F893C14D0":"epo@epo.gr","64CC7FC06580777C":"Gustavo Augusto Poyet Dominguez","64A2290C09C50CF35B7DBD9C8F3A2F5E":"","94A63A88C13097EB":"Athens","02EB7DF46653B329":"Greece","39EE935EB0ECE6E5":"28.96","ED1B32E089DA5A802C3D6EB75016A1DA":"

The Greek national football team represents Greece in association football and is controlled by the Hellenic Football Federation, the governing body for football in Greece. Greece's home ground is Karaiskakis Stadium in Piraeus and their head coach is Fernando Santos. Greece is one of the most successful national teams in European football, being one of only nine national teams to have won the European Championship.

How they qualified
<\/STRONG>Greece enjoyed an excellent qualification campaign. Their points total of 25 from their ten games would have been enough to see them through as winners in five of the other eight groups; instead, they had to endure a play-off after losing out on goal difference to Bosnia-Herzegovina. Five of their eight victories were secured with 1-0 scorelines, and it was only against Group G’s eventual winners that the Greeks dropped points after a 0-0 draw at home and a 3-1 defeat in Zenica.

In the play-offs, Fernando Santos’ men were pitted against a Romanian outfit that boasted its fair share of FIFA World Cup™ experience, but the UEFA EURO 2004 winners carried their good form into the two-legged tie and advanced comfortably. After a storming 3-1 win at home, a 1-1 draw in Bucharest was enough for Greece to seal their place in Brazil next summer. Three of their four goals came from in-form striker Konstantinos Mitroglou, whose five strikes during qualifying make him Greece’s most potent attacking option.<\/P>","798114606EDBEE4E25243C6C8C1B5714":"Universidad Catolica,Bordeaux,Shanghai Shenhua,Real Betis,AEK Athens,Sunderland,Brighton & Hove Albion","6EB6F6F47FE792764A0F2C28812F2AC0":"Universidad Catolica","AB7F89FECD1635E88F612521E9058068":"","A20449E387E65FAD0B1A86B77F820411":"2022-2-11","5D5D4DE02E331F86809BABE1DE910881":"Greece","C12329A43735BD683D9F19F4C632272A":"Greece","76505AA7FEAE524629F3119E5AE1B881":"137 Singrou Avenue,Nea Smirni,ATHENS - 17121","e_index":8};