Konstantinos Papanikolau about 4 defeats of Greece in succession: "Did not affect our self-confidence. We knew that we want from these friendly matches"

The captain of combined Greece Konstantinos Papanikolau considers that the team could take out useful of friendly meetings in the run-up to the World Cup. Greece beat Slovenia twice, and then allowed four defeats in succession – from Serbia, Italy, United States of America and Germany. "I cannot tell that our self-confidence was affected by results of friendly games. We knew that we want from these friendly matches. We had specific goals, the small purposes which are necessary to become better, keeping a positive and rejecting the bad. We are ready not for 100% – it is impossible to make it for twenty trainings, but, I think that we on...