Fulham flop Mitroglou keeps Greek roster spot

• by Soccer America , May 19, 2014

[WORLD CUP 2014] Greece followed Portugal in cutting its World Cup squad down from 30 to 23 players on Monday. Constantinos Mitroglou was included even though he flopped at Fulham, going without a goal in three games after his $18 million transfer from Olympiacos in January.

Coach Fernando Santos' squad included six in Italy, two each in England, Spain and Turkey and one each in Germany and Scotland

Greece Roster:
Goalkeepers: Orestis Karnezis (Granada/SPA), Panagiotis Glykos (PAOK), Stefanos Kapino (Panathinaikos).
Defenders: Kostas Manolas (Olympiacos), Giannis Maniatis (Olympiacos), Jose Holebas (Olympiacos), Sokratis Papastathopoulos (Borussia Dortmund/GER), Giorgios Tzavellas (PAOK), Loukas Vyntra (Levante/SPA), Vasilis Torosidis (Roma/ITA), Vangelis Moras (Verona/ITA).
Midfielders: Alexandros Tziolis (Kayserispor/TUR), Andreas Samaris (Olympiacos), Kostas Katsouranis (PAOK), Giorgos Karagounis (Fulham/ENG), Panagiotis Tachtsidis (Torino/ITA), Ioannis Fetfatzidis (Genoa/ITA), Lazaros Christodoulopoulos (Bologna/ITA) Panagiotis Kone (Bologna/ITA).
Forwards: Dimitris Salpingidis (PAOK), Giorgios Samaras (Celtic/SCO), Kostas Mitroglou (Fulham/ENG), Theofanis Gekas (Konyaspor/TUR).