Blackburn Rovers star gets international call

By European Football
November 4 2005

Blackburn’s Slovakian midfielder Vratislav Gresko has been recalled to the Slovakian squad for the world cup play off against Spain. The midfielder has just recovered from a knee injury, that forced him to miss the last two qualifying matches.

Should they beat Spain, it would represent Slovakia’s first appearance in a world cup, since gaining its independence in 1993, but they will have to do it without injured midfielders Marek Mintal and Karol Kisel.

Full Squad:

Goalkeepers: Kamil Contofalsky (Zenit St. Petersburg), Juraj Cobej (Artmedia Bratislava).

Defenders: Roman Kratochvil (Denzilispor), Martin Petras (Sparta Prague), Jozef Valachovic (Rapid Vienna), Stanislav Varga (Celtic Glasgow), Radoslav Zabavnik (CSKA Sofia), Martin Skrtel (Zenit St. Petersburg), Marian Had (FC Brno), Jan Durica (Artmedia Bratislava).

Midfielders: Peter Hlinka (Rapid Vienna), Vratislav Gresko (Blackburn Rovers), Vladimir Janocko (Austria Vienna), Matej Krajcik (Slavia Prague), Miroslav Karhan (Wolfsburg), Marek Cech (FC Porto), Branislav Fodrek (Artmedia Bratislava), Ivan Hodur (Slovan Liberec).

Forwards: Lubomir Reiter (Chicago Fire), Robert Vittek (FC Nuremberg), Filip Holosko (Slovan Liberec), Szilard Nemeth (Middlesbrough).