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EUROPEAN QUALIFIERS - 2014/16 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Estadi Nacional - Andorra la Vella Friday 12 June 2015 20.45CET (20.45 local time) Andorra Group B - Matchday -7 Cyprus Last updated 12/07/2021 15:41CET Official Partners of UEFA EURO 2020 Previous meetings 2 Match background 3 Squad list 4 Head coach 6 Match officials 7 Competition facts 8 Match-by-match lineups 9 Team facts 11 Legend 13 1 Andorra - Cyprus Friday 12 June 2015 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) Match press kit Estadi Nacional, Andorra la Vella Previous meetings Head to Head 2016 UEFA European Championship Stage Date Match Result Venue Goalscorers reached Merkis 9, Efrem 31, 16/11/2014 QR (GS) Cyprus - Andorra 5-0 Nicosia 42, 60, Christofi 87 (P) FIFA World Cup Stage Date Match Result Venue Goalscorers reached Okkas 10, 18, Agathocleous 43, 15/11/2000 QR (GS) Cyprus - Andorra 5-0 Limassol Christodoulou 73, Špoljarić 90 (P) González 45, Ildefons Lima 52; 02/09/2000 QR (GS) Andorra - Cyprus 2-3 Andorra la Vella Konstantinou 25 (P), 90, Agathocleous 77 Final Qualifying Total tournament Home Away Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA EURO Andorra - - - - 1 0 0 1 - - - - 1 0 0 1 0 5 Cyprus 1 1 0 0 - - - - - - - - 1 1 0 0 5 0 FIFA* Andorra 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 - - - - 2 0 0 2 2 8 Cyprus 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 - - - - 2 2 0 0 8 2 Friendlies Andorra - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 0 0 1 0 1 Cyprus - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 1 0 0 1 0 Total Andorra 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 2 - - - - 4 0 0 4 2 14 Cyprus 2 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 - - - - 4 4 0 0 14 2 * FIFA World Cup/FIFA Confederations Cup 2 Andorra - Cyprus Friday 12 June 2015 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) Match press kit Estadi Nacional, Andorra la Vella Match background Andorra will look to end a long barren run in competitive games as Group B rivals Cyprus come calling in what is their 100th UEFA European Championship game. Previous meetings • Cyprus beat Andorra 5-0 in Nicosia in November; it matched the margin of their previous biggest victory (also against Andorra, in 2000). During the game, Georgios Kolokoudias and Kostas Laifis made their Cyprus debuts, and George Efrem scored his nation's first ever international hat-trick. • Cyprus have won all four of their meetings with Andorra, and have not conceded in the last three. • Their only previous competitive encounters came in 2002 FIFA World Cup qualifying. Andorra threatened an upset in their first encounter on 2 September 2000; they led 2-1 after 52 minutes, only for Cyprus to reply and ultimately prevail via a Michalis Konstantinou goal at the death. Cyprus won the return fixture 5-0 on 15 November 2000. • Current Andorra coach Koldo Alvarez – and indeed long-serving captain Óscar Sonejee – featured in both of those games. Form guide • Andorra are yet to avoid defeat in 45 UEFA European Championship games, and have lost 49 competitive matches in a row since drawing 0-0 with Finland in September 2005. They picked up five points in that 2006 World Cup qualifying tilt – five more than they have earned in any other qualifying campaign. • Cyprus have had an extreme swing in their last two competitive games; after beating Andorra 5-0 they lost by the same scoreline in Belgium. • Cyprus's 2-1 Group B success in Bosnia and Herzegovina was their first competitive away win since a 1-0 victory in San Marino in 2007; it remains their only triumph on the road in their last 19 competitive away games (W1 D4 L14). Trivia and links • Óscar Sonejee made his 100th appearance for Andorra in a 1-0 defeat to Equatorial Guinea in the run-up to the Cyprus game. • This is Cyprus's 100th UEFA European Championship game; the other 99 ended W14 D14 L71. • The nations' two meetings in UEFA age-limit competitions have produced a 5-0 win for Cyprus and a 0-0 draw. 3 Andorra - Cyprus Friday 12 June 2015 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) Match press kit Estadi Nacional, Andorra la Vella Squad list Andorra Current season Qual. FT No. Player DoB Age Club D Pld Gls Pld Gls Goalkeepers FC - Ferran Pol 28/02/1983 32 - 5 0 0 0 Andorra UE Santa - Josep Gomes 03/12/1985 29 - 0 0 0 0 Coloma FC - Victor Silverio 15/04/1997 18 - 0 0 0 0 Andorra Defenders - Óscar Sonejee 26/03/1976 39 Lusitans - 2 0 0 0 FC Santa - Ildefons Lima 10/12/1979 35 - 5 2 0 0 Coloma Marino de - Adrià Rodrigues 14/08/1988 26 - 1 0 0 0 Luanco UE Santa - Jordi Rubio 01/11/1987 27 - 5 0 0 0 Coloma - Emili Garcia 11/01/1989 26 Pennoise - 4 0 0 0 UE Santa - David Maneiro 16/02/1989 26 - 3 0 0 0 Coloma - Moisés San Nicolás 17/09/1993 21 Ordino - 2 0 0 0 Midfielders UE Santa - Josep Ayala 08/04/1980 35 - 4 0 0 0 Coloma FC Santa - Gabriel Riera 05/06/1985 30 - 5 0 0 0 Coloma - Marc Vales 04/04/1990 25 Zaragoza - 5 0 0 0 FC - Edu Peppe 28/01/1983 32 - 2 0 0 0 Andorra FC Santa - Marc Rebés 03/07/1994 20 - 0 0 0 0 Coloma - Cristopher Pousa 29/06/1992 22 Ordino - 0 0 0 0 UE Santa - Victor Rodríguez 07/09/1987 27 - 2 0 0 0 Coloma - Aaron Sanchez 05/06/1996 19 Lleida - 0 0 0 0 Forwards - Ivan Lorenzo 15/04/1986 29 Mollerussa * 5 0 0 0 - Marc Garcia 21/03/1988 27 Rubí - 3 0 0 0 - Sergio Moreno 25/11/1987 27 Jumilla - 1 0 0 0 FC - Ludovic Clemente 09/05/1986 29 - 1 0 0 0 Andorra FC Santa - Cristian Martínez 16/10/1989 25 * 5 0 0 0 Coloma Coach - Koldo Alvarez 04/09/1970 44 - 5 0 0 0 4 Andorra - Cyprus Friday 12 June 2015 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) Match press kit Estadi Nacional, Andorra la Vella Cyprus Current season Qual. FT No. Player DoB Age Club D Pld Gls Pld Gls Goalkeepers - Antonis Giorgallides 30/01/1982 33 Omonia - 3 0 0 0 AEK - Alexandre Negri 27/03/1981 34 - 0 0 0 0 Larnaca - Kostas Panayi 08/10/1994 20 Omonia - 0 0 0 0 Defenders AEK - Elias Charalambous 25/09/1980 34 - 0 0 0 0 Larnaca - Marios Antoniades 14/05/1990 25 APOEL - 5 0 0 0 - Charis Kyriakou 15/10/1989 25 Omonia - 4 0 0 0 - Jason Demetriou 18/11/1987 27 Anorthosis - 1 0 0 0 - Valentinos Sielis 01/03/1990 25 AEL - 1 0 0 0 - Dossa Júnior 28/07/1986 28 Legia - 3 0 0 0 Midfielders - Nektarios Alexandrou 19/12/1983 31 APOEL - 3 0 0 0 - Marios Nikolaou 04/10/1983 31 AEL - 5 0 0 0 Metalurh - Constantinos Makridis 13/01/1982 33 - 4 1 0 0 Donetsk AEK - Vincent Laban 09/09/1984 30 * 5 1 0 0 Larnaca - George Efrem 05/07/1989 25 APOEL - 3 3 0 0 - Georgios Economides 10/04/1990 25 Omonia - 1 0 0 0 - Kostakis Artymatas 15/04/1993 22 APOEL - 0 0 0 0 - Charis Kyriakou 09/02/1995 20 Apollon - 0 0 0 0 - Grigoris Kastanos 30/01/1998 17 Juventus - 1 0 0 0 Forwards - Dimitris Christofi 28/09/1988 26 Sion - 4 3 0 0 - Georgios Kolokoudias 03/05/1989 26 Apollon - 1 0 0 0 - Onisiforos Roushias 15/07/1992 22 Omonia - 0 0 0 0 AEK - Nestor Mytidis 01/06/1991 24 - 2 0 0 0 Larnaca - Antreas Makris 27/11/1995 19 Anorthosis - 3 0 0 0 Coach - Charalampos Christodoulou 17/10/1967 47 - 5 0 0 0 5 Andorra - Cyprus Friday 12 June 2015 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) Match press kit Estadi Nacional, Andorra la Vella Head coach Koldo Alvarez Date of birth: 4 September 1970 Nationality: Andorran Playing career: Club Atlético de Madrid, CD Toledo, UD Salamanca, FC Andorra (twice), CF Balaguer Coaching career: Andorra • A reserve goalkeeper at Atlético, Koldo came through the club's youth ranks and lifted the Copa del Rey with the Spanish side in 1991/92. • Leaving the capital in search of first-team football, Koldo played for Toledo before winning promotion to the Spanish second division with Salamanca in 1993/94. • Signed for FC Andorra in the summer of 1994, dividing his time between playing for the club's first team and acting as a youth coach with the national Under-17, U19 and U21 sides. • Capped 79 times by Andorra before his retirement following a 6-0 loss to England at Wembley in June 2009. Named his country's best player of the last 50 years by the Andorran Football Federation (FAF). • Took over as coach of the national team in February 2010 after the departure of David Rodrigo, though his side finished bottom of their qualifying groups for UEFA EURO 2012 and the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Charalambos Christodoulou Date of birth: 17 October 1967 Nationality: Cypriot Playing career: Doxa Katokopia FC, Olympiakos Nicosia FC, AEK Larnaca FC Coaching career: Doxa Katokopia FC, Olympiakos Nicosia FC, AEL Limassol FC, Anorthosis Famagusta FC • Had a modest career as a defensive midfielder in Cyprus, playing for second-tier Doxa between 1985 and 1989, before a five-year stint with Olympiakos where he reached the 1991 Cypriot Cup final.