Georgios Valerianos (; born 13 February 1992) is a Greek professional

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who plays as a

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for

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club

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Club career

Valerianos began playing football with

Olympiacos Olympiacós Sýndesmos Filáthlon Peiraiós (, Olympic Association of Fans of Piraeus) is a major multi-sport club based in Piraeus, Greece. Olympiacos is parent to a number of different competitive departments which participate in football, ...

. He is a very talented player and one of the best young players who were playing in Olympiacos U-21. He made 44 appearances for the youth team with four goals. Valerianos was first included in Olympiacos' first team in a league match against

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on 11 April 2010, where he appeared as a second-half substitute. On 22 July 2014 he signed for Iraklis in the Greek Football League. Valerianos debuted for Iraklis in a

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match against

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. On 12 August 2015, he signed a contract with second-tier club

Apollon Smyrnis Apollon Smyrnis Football Club () is a professional football club based in Athens, Greece, which competes in the Athens FCA first division. It is part of GS Apollon Smyrnis (Γυμναστικός Σύλλογος Απόλλων Σμύρνης), ...

. On 29 January 2016, he solved his contract with the club. The 27-year-old left back can be considered as somewhat of a journeyman despite his age as in July 2017, signed with

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that officially announced his acquisition. His path to the top has been chequered and he has had to do it the hard way, meaning a lot of resilience was needed. Even this season at Aris, he has been a squad player that has been rotated in and out of the team. On 1 July 2019, after two years with Aris, Valerianos signed a three years' contract with Cypriot club

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for an undisclosed fee. On 4 July 2019, the international back will have an intermediary station in his career after being loaned to

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, a Latvian football club, which owns the same property status as

. According to sources the borrowing will take just a month for the international left back in order to help the club for the

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. On 25 June 2021, Valerianos returned to

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, signing a two-year contract with Ionikos.

International career

On 19 March 2019, Greece head coach

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announced the first call up of Valerianos for the match against

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and

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for

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. He made his debut on 30 May 2019, in a friendly against Turkey, as a starter.

Career statistics

Club

Honours

;Riga *

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;Olympiacos *

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: 2011–12

References

External links

Profile at Sport.gr
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