Nikos Kyzeridis (, born 20 April 1971) is a Greek former professional

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who played as an

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and a striker. He amassed close to 500 league appearances at club level while making one appearance for the Greece national team in 1998.

Club career

Born in

Thessaloniki Thessaloniki (; ), also known as Thessalonica (), Saloniki, Salonika, or Salonica (), is the second-largest city in Greece (with slightly over one million inhabitants in its Thessaloniki metropolitan area, metropolitan area) and the capital cit ...

, Greece, Kyzeridis began his career at Naoussa at the age of 19, playing 145 games and scoring 39 goals for the club. On 1995, he was signed by newly promoted Paniliakos to help the team's cause at the 1995–96 season of

Alpha Ethniki The Super League Greece 1 (), or Stoiximan Super League for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Greece and the highest level of the Greek football league system. The league was formed on 16 July 2006 and repla ...

. He stayed there for three seasons, playing 82 times and scoring 17 goals. Nikos' talent did not go unnoticed by

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club

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, and in July 1998 they signed him. However, he only played four times for the club, and in December 1998 he was sold to

Aris Thessaloniki Athlitikos Syllogos Aris Thessalonikis, means Athletic Club Aris Thessaloniki (), is a major Greece, Greek multi-sport club founded on 25 March 1914 in Thessaloniki. Nicknamed ''God of War'', Aris was one of the strongest Greek clubs during t ...

. He spent five full seasons at Aris, scoring 26 goals, and helping the team to qualify for the

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twice and even reach the Greek Cup final of 2003, where they lost against

PAOK PAOK (, Πανθεσσαλονίκειος Αθλητικός Όμιλος Κωνσταντινοπολιτών, ''Panthessalonikeios Athlitikós Ómilos Constantinopoliton'', ''Pan-Thessalonian Athletic Club of Constantinopolitans''), commonly ...

. Nikos joined

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for the 2004–05 season. He played 28 times and scored 6 goals. In August 2005 he joined the

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side Agrotikos Asteras. Until December 2008 (when he left the club) he scored 30 goals in 87 games, being one of the star players of the club. In January 2009 he joined Makedonikos, without much success. He left the club at the end of the 2008–09 season and joined the

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side Aetos Skydras, for one year, until he retired at the age of 39.

International career

On 8 April 1998, Nikos Kyzeridis played for

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in a friendly match against

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Health issues

When Kyzeridis turned 41 he was diagnosed with cancer in his lymph nodes. After three years the cost became unbearable and having considered not paying anymore so that his family could survive, his operations were funded by the help of multiple charities.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kyzeridis, Nikos 1971 births Living people Greek men's footballers Footballers from Thessaloniki Men's association football midfielders Men's association football forwards Greece men's international footballers Super League Greece players Football League (Greece) players English Football League players Aris Thessaloniki F.C. players Agrotikos Asteras F.C. players Makedonikos F.C. players Paniliakos F.C. players Naoussa F.C. players Veria F.C. players Portsmouth F.C. players Expatriate men's footballers in England