Dimitrios Mavrogenidis (; born 23 December 1976) is a retired

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. Mavrogenidis is best known as

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' first-choice right-back for a long stretch of the club's dominance of Greek football in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Club career

Aris

After coming through

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' youth system, Mavrogenidis made his professional debut at age 17, on 9 August 1994, in the preliminary round of the 1994–95

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(now called UEFA Europa League), in a 3–1 win over to Hapoel Be'er Sheva. After three seasons with Aris, making 103 appearances and scoring 15 goals in all competitions, Mavrogenidis transferred to

Olympiacos

Upon arriving from Aris, Mavrogenidis established himself as Olympiacos' first-choice right-back for the next nine seasons, during which time Olympiakos dominated Greek football.

Domestic competition

In nine seasons with Olympiacos, from 1997–98 through 2005–06, Mavrogenidis won eight league championships and three Greek Cups, making 201 league appearances (172 starts) and 56 Cup appearances (50 starts).

European competition

During his career with Olympiacos, Mavrogenidis made 40 total appearances (35 starts) in the

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and 8 total appearances (8 starts) in the UEFA Cup. Mavrogenidis played in Champions League matches against some of Europe's most important clubs, including

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(six times) and

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(four times). During Olympiacos' best-ever run in the Champions Leagueto the quarter-finals in 1998–99, where they were eliminated by Juventus, 3–2 on aggregateMavrogenidis played every minute of Olympiacos' eight total matches in the group stage and quarter-final stage. Mavrogenidis scored three goals in Champions League competitionagainst Rosenborg in 1997–98, against

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in 1999–00, and against

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in 2003–04.

Iraklis

After leaving Olympiacos in 2006, Mavrogenidis returned to

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to sign for another important Greek club Iraklis. Mavrogenidis spent two seasons with Iraklis, making 46 total league appearances (40 starts). Mavrogenidis also made two European appearances with Iraklisthe Thessaloniki club qualified for the 2006–07

, but was eliminated in the first round of the competition by

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, 2–1 on aggregate after extra time.

Thrasyvoulos

After leaving Iraklis in 2008, Mavrogenidis signed with newly promoted Greek Super League side Thrasyvoulos. Mavrogenidis made 21 appearances (17 starts) for Thrasyvoulos in 2008–09, but at the end of the season the team was relegated back to

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International career

Mavrogenidis has 24 caps for the Greece national team.

Honours

Olympiacos *

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2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

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2003 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographic ...

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mavrogenidis, Dimitrios 1976 births Living people Pontic Greeks Greek men's footballers Uzbekistani people of Greek descent Super League Greece players Aris Thessaloniki F.C. players Olympiacos F.C. players Iraklis F.C. (Thessaloniki) players Thrasyvoulos F.C. players Greece men's international footballers Greece men's under-21 international footballers Footballers from Tashkent Men's association football defenders Footballers from Thessaloniki