Soccer-Czechs name squad for Greece, Poland friendlies

PRAGUE, Jan 14 (Reuters) - Czech Republic coach Karel Brueckner named a 28-man squad on Monday for their friendlies in Cyprus next month.

Czechs will start their preparations for Euro 2008 against Greece in Nicosia on Feb. 5 and Poland in Larnaca on Feb. 6.

The Greece match is unofficial and defenders like Jan Rajnoch or Jan Simunek may get a chance win a place in the final squad for the tournament in Switzerland and Austria.

Czech Republic will play Switzerland, Portugal and Turkey in the Group A.

Squad:

Goalkeepers: Jaromir Blazek (Nuremberg), Petr Cech (Chelsea), Daniel Zitka (Anderlecht)

Defenders: Zdenek Grygera (Juventus), Marek Jankulovski (AC Milan), Michal Kadlec (Sparta Prague), Radoslav Kovac (Spartak Moscow), Zdenek Pospech (Sparta Prague), Jan Rajnoch (Mlada Boleslav), David Rozehnal (Newcastle United), Jan Simunek (VfL Wolfsburg), Tomas Ujfalusi (Fiorentina)

Midfielders: Tomas Galasek (Nuremberg), Mario Holek (Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk), David Jarolim (Hamburg SV), Lubos Kalouda (Brno), Jiri Kladrubsky (Sparta Prague), Marek Matejovsky (Reading), Jaroslav Plasil (Osasuna), Jan Polak (Anderlecht), Daniel Pudil (Slavia Prague), Tomas Rosicky (Arsenal), Libor Sionko (FC Copenhagen)

Strikers: Milan Baros (Olympique Lyon), Martin Fenin (Eintracht Frankfurt), Jan Koller (Nuremberg), Marek Kulic (Sparta Prague), Stanislav Vlcek (Anderlecht). (Reporting by Dusan Bucanek, editing by Trevor Huggins)