- Greece national under-21 football team
European national under-21 football team
Name = Greece Under-21
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Nickname = Εθνική Ελπίδων
("National team of Hopes")
Association =Hellenic Football Federation
Coach = flagicon|GreeceNikos Nioplias
Captain =Grigorios Makos
Most caps = —
Top scorer =Demis Nikolaidis (14)
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Largest win = Flagicon|Greece Greece 6 - 0 Luxembourg Flagicon|Luxembourg
(Greece ;1993 )Flagicon|Greece Greece 6 - 0 Latvia Flagicon|Latvia
(Greece ;1999 )
Largest loss = flagicon|Hungary|1957 Hungary 7 - 0 Greece flagicon|Greece|old
(Hungary ;1976 )
UEFAu21Champ apps = 4
UEFAu21Champ first = 1988
UEFAu21Champ best = Runners-up, 1988, 1998|Greece national Under-21 football team, also known as
Greece Under-21s or Greece U-21s, is the Under-21 years of age team of theGreece national football team .This team is for Greek players aged 21 or under at the start of a two-year
European Under-21 Football Championship campaign, so players can be, and often are, up to 23 years old. Also in existence are teams for Under-20s (for non-UEFA tournaments), Under-19s and Under 17s. As long as they are eligible, players can play at any level, making it possible to play for the U-21s, senior side and again for the U-21s, asSotiris Ninis has done recently. It is also possible to play for one country at youth level and another at senior level (providing the player is eligible).History
*European Championship 1988: Runners-up,
*European Championship 1994: Quarter finalist,
*European Championship 1998: Runners-up,
*European Championship 2002: Quarter finalistCurrent squad and recent players
1986-born
(eligible to 2009 UEFA U21 Champ)
*Alexandros Kasmeridis
*Georgios Galitsios
*Efthimis Kotitsas
*Ioannis Maniatis
*Theodoros Tripotseris
*Lazaros Christodoulopoulos
*Stylianos Iliadis
*Dimitris Koiliaras
*Antonis Rikka
*Antonis Petropoulos
*Savvas Tsiambouris1987-born
(eligible to 2009 UEFA U21 Champ)
*Leonidas Panagopoulos
*Theodoros Koubaroulis
*Giorgos Tzavelas
*Andreas Chatziliontas
*Sotiris Balafas
*Panagiotis Kone
*Grigorios Makos
*Manolis Papastergianos
*Stefanos Siontis
*Christos Aravidis1988-born
(eligible to 2011 UEFA U21 Champ)
*Emmanouil Moniakis
*Sokratis Papastathopoulos
*Elini Dimoutsos
*Vassilios Pliatsikas
*Kostantinos Mitroglou
*Athanasios Papazoglou
*Dimitrios Giantsis
*Georgios Ioannidis1989-born
(eligible to 2011 UEFA U21 Champ)1990-born
(eligible to 2011 UEFA U21 Champ)
*"Sotiris Ninis "ee also
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European Under-21 Football Championship
*Greece (Senior) team
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