Kostas Galanopoulos
Konstantinos 'Kostas' Galanopoulos (; born 28 December 1997) is a Greek professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for the Greece national team. Club career AEK Athens Galanopoulos started his career from Kentavros Vrilission at a young age. In 2011, he moved at AEK Athens academy and on 21 August 2015 he signed a professional contract for three next years. Despite having André Simões and Jakob Johansson in front of him in the AEK's roster, Galanopoulos managed to earn playing time this season with the club and showed great potential for his career ahead. On 31 May 2016, he made his professional debut, with AEK, against Panionios, for the Super League Play-offs. On 28 July 2016, he made his European debut in a 0–0 away game against Saint-Étienne for the first leg of the third qualifying round of UEFA Europa League. On 10 December 2016, he netted his first goal with the club in a 4–0 home win against Levadiakos. He was named MVP of the match. In AEK's title wi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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AEK Athens F
A.E.K. (; Athlitikí Énosis Konstantinoupόleos, ''Athletic Union of Constantinople'') is a major Greece, Greek multi-sport club based in Nea Filadelfeia, Attica. The club is more commonly known in European competitions as A.E.K. Athens. Established in Athens, in 1924, by Greek refugees from Constantinople, after the Greco-Turkish War (1919–22), 1919–22 Greco-Turkish war and the subsequent population exchange between Greece and Turkey, it is the most successful club in Greece, as it maintains more than 30 sports departments (football, basketball, handball, volleyball, futsal, etc.), under the control of its amateur sports arm, Amateur AEK (; Erasitechnikί AEK), with noteworthy departments, such as its AEK H.C., handball team, which is the best Greek handball club, in terms of European achievements, having obtained 1 EHF European Cup in 2021 and having also reached the final in 2018 and in 2025 and the semi-finals in 2019. AEK sports club is best known for its professional ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2017–18 Super League Greece
The 2017–18 Super League Greece, or ''Souroti Super League'' for sponsorship reasons, was the 82nd season of the highest tier in league of Greek football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ... and the 12th under its current name. The season started in August 2017 and ended in May 2018. The league comprises fourteen teams from the 2016–17 season and two promoted from the 2016–17 Football League. On 12 March 2018, the Super League Greece was suspended by the Greek government until further notice after the president of PAOK FC, PAOK, Ivan Savvidis, had stormed onto the field with a revolver during the match between PAOK and AEK Athens F.C., AEK Athens played the previous day. The suspension was lifted on 27 March. PAOK was deducted 3 points and AEK was awarded 3 poi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Andrija Živković
Andrija Živković ( sr-Cyrl, Андрија Живковић, ; born 11 July 1996) is a Serbian professional Association football, footballer who plays as a Winger (association football), winger for Super League Greece, Greek Super League club PAOK FC, PAOK and the Serbia national football team, Serbia national team. He is the youngest player ever to make a senior appearance for Serbia, as well as the youngest FK Partizan, Partizan captain in the club's history. Živković was a vital member of the Serbia national under-20 football team, Serbia national under-20 team that won the 2015 FIFA U-20 World Cup, scoring two goals and providing two assists. Club career Partizan Živković joined FK Partizan, Partizan in September 2009. He was a member of the club's promising generation, alongside Danilo Pantić and Nemanja Radonjić, among others. 2012–13 season Živković made his competitive debut for their first team in a league fixture against FK Novi Pazar, Novi Pazar on 28 Apr ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Michael Krmenčík
Michael Krmenčík (born 15 March 1993) is a Czech professional footballer who plays as a forward for Czech First League club Slovácko and the Czech Republic national team. Club career Early club career In 2011, Krmenčík was promoted to the first team and in April of the same year he made his debut in a game against Příbram. In the 2011–12 season, he went on loan to Banik Sokolov, scoring his first professional goal. In the following four seasons, Krmenčík went on loan spells at Zenit Čáslav, Vlašim, Baník Ostrava and Dukla Prague in the Czech leagues. He returned to Viktoria Plzeň in the second half of the 2015-16 season and his career began to gain momentum. Krmenčík scored three times in nine games, winning a place in the team's starting XI. Viktoria Plzeň By January 2020, Krmenčík managed to impress many playing for Viktoria Plzeň. In 124 matches, he scored 62 goals, made 16 assists and won four trophies. He was also the league's top scorer in the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Muamer Tanković
Muamer Tanković (born 22 February 1995) is a Swedish professional footballer who plays as a forward for Pafos. Early life Muamer Tanković was born to Bosnian Muslim parents in Norrköping and grew up in Hageby, a Million Programme area in the southern part of the city. He started to play football at a young age at the local club Hageby IF, before joining local giants IFK Norrköping in 2005, aged 10. Club career Early career Tanković never made his competitive senior debut for Norrköping in Allsvenskan, but appeared as an unused substitute in six league games. While at Norrköping, Tanković went on trial with German side Hamburger SV. Tanković was also linked with Chelsea, Manchester United and Juventus. Fulham In September 2011, he joined Fulham, aged sixteen, on a three-year contract for an undisclosed fee. He made his Fulham debut as an 87th-minute substitute for compatriot Alexander Kačaniklić in the FA Cup third round replay against Norwich City at Craven Cottag ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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PAOK FC
PAOK FC (, ), short for "Pan-Thessalonian Sports club, Athletic Club of Constantinople, Constantinopolitans" (), and commonly known as PAOK Thessaloniki, PAOK Salonika or simply PAOK, is a Greek professional Association football, football club based in Thessaloniki, Macedonia (Greece), Macedonia, Greece. PAOK are one of the top domestic clubs, the most widely supported in Northern Greece. Established on 20 April 1926 by Greek refugees who fled to Thessaloniki from Istanbul, Constantinople in the wake of the Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922), they play their home games at Toumba Stadium, a 29,000 seating capacity football ground. Their name, along with the club's emblem, the Roman Empire, Byzantine-style double-headed eagle with retracted wings, honours the memory of the people and places (mostly from the city of Constantinople) that once belonged to the Eastern Roman Empire. PAOK currently plays in the top-flight Super League Greece, Super League, which they have won four times ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Double-headed Eagles Derby
The Double-headed eagles derby () is a football derby between AEK Athens and PAOK. Both teams have the same roots, being refugees from Constantinople (AEK in Nea Filadelfeia, a suburban town in the Athens agglomeration, and PAOK in Thessaloniki), after the Greco-Turkish War, the Asia Minor Catastrophe and the population exchange. Both teams use the same emblem (Double-headed eagle), to reminisce the Byzantine Empire, but in different colors (black and yellow for AEK, black and white for PAOK). The first match between the two teams took place in Leoforos Alexandras Stadium in Athens during the final phase of the 1930–31 Panhellenic Championship. History Since their establishment, the relations between the two clubs were good, as was depicted in the 1939 Cup final, when the players of both clubs entered the pitch hugged. In 2 September 1959, PAOK invited AEK for a friendly match to celebrate the inauguration of the Toumba Stadium. Twenty years later, the president of AEK, Louka ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Asteras Tripolis F
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Asteras is a Greek word meaning star. See also: * Ethnikos Asteras F.C. * Asteras Tripolis F.C. * Agrotikos Asteras F.C. * Kyanos Asteras Vari F.C. * Asteras Amaliada F.C. * Nafpaktiakos Asteras F.C. * Asteras Magoula F.C. * Neos Asteras Rethymno F.C. *Asteras Exarchia Asteras Exarchion, alternatively called Asteras Exarchia (Greek: Αστέρας Εξαρχείων), is a Greek sports club from Exarcheia, Athens, founded in 1928, but competing under its current name from 1967. The club has three active sports ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Xanthi F
Xanthi is a city in the region of Western Thrace, northeastern Greece. It is the capital of the Xanthi (regional unit), Xanthi regional unit of the modern regions of Greece, region of East Macedonia and Thrace. Amphitheatrically built on the foot of Rhodope mountains, Rhodope mountain chain, the city is divided by the Kosynthos River, into the west part, where the old and the modern town are located, and the east part that boasts a rich natural environment. The "Old Town of Xanthi" is known throughout Greece for its distinctive architecture, combining many Byzantine Greeks, Byzantine Greek churches with neoclassicism, neoclassical mansions of Greek merchants from the 18th and 19th centuries and Ottoman-Era mosques. Other landmarks in Xanthi include the Archaeological Museum of Abdera, Thrace, Abdera and the Greek Folk Art Museum. Xanthi is famous throughout Greece (especially Macedonia (Greece), Macedonia and Western Thrace, Thrace) for its annual spring Xanthi Carnival, carnival ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Panetolikos F
Panetolikos Football Club (), or with its full name officially romanized as Panaitolikós Gymnastikós Filekpaideftikós Sýllogos (''; Pan- Aetolian Gymnastic and Educational Club''), is a Greek professional football club. It is based in Agrinio, Greece. Panetolikos was founded in 1926 and is considered one of the historical clubs in Greece, currently participating in the Greek First Division. Some of the most well known players that started their career in the club are Stratos Apostolakis, former Greek recordman in international caps (96), and Petros Michos. Team colors are yellow and blue. The club's symbol is Titormus, the ancient Aetolian hero and their motto is "''Τίτορμος Αιτωλός Ούτος Άλλος Ηρακλής"'' (''Títormos'' ''Etolós Oútos Állos Iraklís),'' translated as '' Titormus the Aetolian is another Heracles''. History Formation and early years Panetolikos was founded on Tuesday March 9, 1926 with the purpose, as stated in its stat ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Dimitris Kyriakidis
Dimitrios Kyriakidis (Greek: Δημήτριος Κυριακίδης; born 24 June 1986) is a retired Greek professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He previously played for PAOK, Agrotikos Asteras, Panserraikos, Levadiakos, Skoda Xanthi and Panetolikos. Club career In the 2007–08 season he made his first appearance for PAOK in a Greek Cup game against Thrasivoulos Filis. At the end of the 2015–16 Superleague regular season, Kyriakidis was voted as the second best goalkeeper in the league. On 29 January 2017, he renewed his contract with Panetolikos till the summer of 2020. In the summer 2023, Kyriakidis announced his retirement. International career He was part of the Greece national under-21 football team for two years earning 3 caps. In November 2016 Kyriakidis received his first call-up to the senior Greece squad for matches against Belarus and Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was a surprise call-up by Michael Skibbe Michael Heinz Skibbe (born 4 August 1 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |