Spyros Sklavounos (; 1912 – ?) was a

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who played as a

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. He played in eight matches for the

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from 1932 to 1938. He was also part of Greece's team for their qualification matches for the

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Club career

Sklavounos started playing football at Thermaikos in 1929. His uncle, Alexandros was one of the founders as well as the president of Thermaikos and with his personal intervention in 1931, he moved to

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, despite the interest of

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. With the "greens" he won an Athens FCA League in 1934. In 1935 he joined

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, where he won the first ever domestic double by a Greek club in 1939 and the Athens FCA League and

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of the following season. He ended his football career in 1940.

International career

Sklavounos played for

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8 times, between 1932 and 1938. He was called for the first time to

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for the Balkan Cup matches.

After football

After the end of his football career, in 1948, he took up singing and had an international career, he sang in many shops in

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and in many more cities.

Personal life

He came from a family of railway workers, his grandfather Panagiotis, alongside his grandmother Roza had participated in the

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. His brother Grigoris was also a football player, competing for many years in Thermaikos.

Honours

Panathinaikos * Athens FCA League: 1934 AEK Athens *

: 1938–39, 1939–40 *

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: 1938–39 *Athens FCA League: 1940

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sklavounos, Spyros 1912 births Year of death missing Greek men's footballers Greece men's international footballers Men's association football goalkeepers Panathinaikos F.C. players AEK Athens F.C. players Footballers from Thessaloniki 20th-century Greek sportsmen