KETSBAIA MAKES SELECTIONS FOR JUNE FRIENDLIES

The Cypriot national team will play a pair of away friendlies next month. On June 8^th, Cyprus will visit Moldova in Chisinau, and then on the 11^th San Marino in Serravalle. Cyprus won their only previous encounter with Moldova and have won on all six occasions against San Marino. Cyprus’s Georgian manager Timur Ketsbaia has made the following selections:

GOALKEEPERS: Joel Mall(Servette), Konstantinos Panagi(Ethnikos Achnas), Dimitris Demetriou(Apollonas)

DEFENDERS: Giorgos Malekkidis(Apollonas), Andreas Karo(OFI Crete), Stelios Andreou(Charleroi), Kostas Pileas(Panserraikos), Nikolas Panayiotou(Omonoia), Andreas Panayiotou Filiotis(Apollonas), Pavlos Correa(Anorthosis), Hector Kyprianou(Peterborough United)

MIDFIELDERS: Kostakis Artymatas(Anorthosis), Grigoris Kastanos(Salernitana), Chambos Kyriakou(Apollonas), Giannis Satsias(APOEL), Alex Gogic(St. Mirren), Charalambos Charalambous(Omonoia), Danilo Spoljaric(Apollonas), Andreas Chrysostomou(Anorthosis)

FORWARDS: Ioannis Pittas(AIK Solna), Loizos Loizou(Heerenveen), Andronikos Kakoullis(Omonoia), Marios Ilia(Ethnikos Achnas), Stavros Gavril(Zulte Waregem), Andreas Katsantonis(Karmiotissa)

Of the above, only Malekkidis is uncapped. Notable omissions include Omonoia Captain Ioannis Kousoulos, and Pieros Sotiriou continues to be left out despite being Cyprus’s active leader in goals.

By Andrew Mantzas