Diomidis Symeonidis (1908 – 24 April 1981) was a
Cypriot footballer, and one of the founders of
APOEL.
Symeonidis was born in 1908 and was, along with his brother Christos, a footballer of Aetos - a local
Nicosia
Nicosia, also known as Lefkosia and Lefkoşa, is the capital and largest city of Cyprus. It is the southeasternmost of all EU member states' capital cities.
Nicosia has been continuously inhabited for over 5,500 years and has been the capi ...
club - until 1926 when he met Georgios Poulias. The two men founded POEL which evolved into
APOEL. Symeonidis played for the team he co-founded until 1929 when he transferred to
Panathinaikos in the Greek League. His career at PAO ended in 1934 due to an injury and Symeonidis returned to Cyprus where he was player/coach for APOEL and for
Enosis Neon Trust.
He won one greek championship (1930) and one cypriot championship (1935).
During his career, Symeonidis was capped 5 times by the
Greece national football team
The Greece national football team (, ) represents Greece in men's international Association football, football matches, and is controlled by the Hellenic Football Federation, the governing body for football in Greece. Greece is one of only ten ...
. He died in 1981 in his late 70s.
["Πέθανε ο Διομήδης Συμεωνίδης του ΠΑΟ", Αθλητική Ηχώ, φύλλο 26-4-1981, σελ. 6.]
External links
apoel.net*
1908 births
1981 deaths
Cypriot men's footballers
Greek men's footballers
Greece men's international footballers
APOEL FC players
Panathinaikos F.C. players
Men's association football players not categorized by position
Footballers from Nicosia
20th-century Greek sportsmen
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