Skibbe announces squad for March friendlies

New Greece manager Michael Skibbe announced on Wednesday his choice of players for the friendly matches at home against Montenegro and Iceland on March 24 and 29:

Goalkeepers: Orestis Karnezis (Udinese), Stefanos Kapino (Olympiakos)
Defenders: Giorgos Tzavellas (PAOK), Costas Manolas, Vassilis Torosidis (both Roma), Costas Stafylidis (Augsburg), Kyriakos Papadopoulos (Bayer Leverkusen), Sokratis Papastathopoulos (Borussia Dortmund), Marios Economou (Bologna)
Midfielders: Costas Fortounis (Olympiakos), Thanasis Petsos (Rapid Vienna), Panayiotis Tachtsidis (Genoa), Alexandros Tziolis (PAOK), Petros Mantalos (AEK), Andreas Samaris (Benfica)
Forwards: Costas Mitroglou (Benfica), Nikos Karelis (Genk), Apostolos Vellios (Iraklis), Thanasis Papazoglou (Kortrijk)

For match against Iceland the following players will be added:
Defenders: Dimitris Siovas (Olympiakos), Vangelis Moras (Hellas Verona), Jose Holebas (Watford)
Midfielder: Dimitris Pelkas (PAOK)
Forward: Dimitris Diamantakos (Karlsruhe)

[AFP]