Euro 2008
On Thursday, December 12, 2002, Austria and Switzerland were chosen by the UEFA Executive Committee to jointly host the final round of the UEFA European Football Championship in 2008.
Eight cities
The decision followed a process which began formally in the autumn of 2001, and which culminated in the seven candidates (including a joint Greco-Turkish bid) giving brief final presentations of their bids to the joint Executive Committee and UEFA's National Teams Committee. Four stadiums in each country formed the basis of the bid - Basel, Berne, Geneva and Zurich in Switzerland, and Innsbruck, Klagenfurt, Salzburg and Vienna in Austria.
Participants
So far, the following teams have qualified for the finals of Euro 2008:
- Austria (hosts)
- Switzerland (hosts)
- Germany
- Greece
- Romania
- Czech Republic
Greek Squad
On May 27, 2008, Otto Rehhagel announced his 23-player squad for Euro 2008.
The Greek squad with shirt numbers:
Goalkeepers: 1 Antonis Nikopolidis (Olympiakos Piraeus), 12 Konstantinos Chalkias (Aris Saloniki), 13 Alexandros Tzorvas (OFI Crete)
Defenders: 2 Giourkas Seitaridis (Atletico Madrid), 3 Christos Patsatzoglou (Olympiakos Piraeus), 4 Nikos Spyropoulos (Panathinaikos Athens), 5 Traianos Dellas (AEK Athens), 11 Loukas Vyntra (Panathinaikos Athens), 15 Vassilios Torosidis (Olympiakos Piraeus), 16 Sotirios Kyrgiakos (Eintracht Frankfurt), 18 Ioannis Goumas (Panathinaikos Athens), 19 Paraskevas Antzas (Olympiakos Piraeus)
Midfielders: 6 Angelos Basinas (RCD Mallorca), 8 Stylianos Giannakopoulos (Bolton Wanderers), 10 Georgios Karagounis (Panathinaikos Athens), 20 Ioannis Amanatidis(Eintracht Frankfurt), 21 Konstantinos Katsouranis (Benfica Lisbon), 22 Alexandros Tziolis (Panathinaikos Athens),
Forwards: 7 Georgios Samaras (Celtic Glasgow), 9 Angelos Charisteas (Nuremberg), 14 Dimitris Salpingidis (Panathinaikos Athens), 17 Theofanis Gekas (Bayer Leverkusen), 23 Nikolaos Liberopoulos (AEK Athens)