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Georgios Georgiadis (footballer, born 1972)

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Georgios Georgiadis
Personal information
Full name Georgios Charalambous Georgiadis[1][2]
Date of birth (1972-03-08) 8 March 1972 (age 52)
Place of birth Kavala, Greece
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position(s) Right winger
Team information
Current team
PAOK Academy (Sporting Director)
Youth career
1987–1990 Keravnos Krinidon
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1990–1992 Doxa Drama 77 (17)
1992–1998 Panathinaikos 176 (60)
1998–1999 Newcastle United 10 (0)
1999–2003 PAOK 105 (42)
2003–2005 Olympiacos 44 (9)
2005–2007 Iraklis 36 (6)
2007–2008 PAOK 38 (3)
Total 486 (137)
International career
1993–2004 Greece 61 (11)
Managerial career
2009–2010 Greece U19
2010–2012 Greece U21
2012–2013 PAOK (Sporting Director)
2013 PAOK (caretaker)
2013–2014 PAOK (Assistant Manager)
2014 PAOK (caretaker)
2015 PAOK (caretaker)
2015–2016 Veria
2016–2017 Trikala
2017– PAOK Academy (Sporting Director)
Medal record
Men's football
Representing  Greece
UEFA European Championship
Winner 2004
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Georgios Charalambous Georgiadis (Greek: Γεώργιος Γεωργιάδης,[2] born 8 March 1972) is a Greek former professional footballer, now a football coach. A former right winger, he made 61 appearances for the Greece national football team, and played for several Greek clubs including Panathinaikos and two spells at PAOK. He was also signed by the English club Newcastle for a season. After retiring in 2008 he coached the Greece U21 side.

Playing career

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Born in Kavala, Greece, Georgiadis' family, soon after his birth, left for Stuttgart, Germany, where young Giorgos first learned to play football. He returned to Greece, as a teenager and signed up for amateur side Keravnos Krinides. Soon he was discovered by Alpha Ethniki club Doxa Drama who signed him at age 17.

He transferred to major club Panathinaikos and played for the Athens greens from the 1993–94 until the 1997–98 season. He was member of the squad who reached the Champions League semi finals in 1995–96. His exposure to European football brought an offer from English Premiership side, Newcastle United, for £420,000 and Georgiadis joined fellow Greek Nikos Dabizas at St James' Park in the 1999 season. During that year, Newcastle United made it to the FA Cup Final but lost out to Manchester United. It was in the FA Cup that Georgiadis scored his only Newcastle goal, in the 4–1 win over Everton.[3]

Georgiadis returned to Greece to play for PAOK from 2000 until 2003 before transferring to Olympiacos. Georgiadis was also a member of the Greece squad that won the UEFA Euro 2004.

He was released by Olympiacos after the 2004–05 season and was signed up by Iraklis Thessaloniki. After one and a half seasons with Iraklis, Georgiadis left the club as a free transfer to PAOK in January 2007. On 1 July 2008, he retired from professional football as a player.

He was capped 61 times and has scored 11 goals for the Greece national team. He won three Greek First Division with Panathinaikos and Olympiacos and six Greek Cups with Panathinaikos, Olympiacos and PAOK.

Managerial career

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On 5 May, it was announced that Georgiadis was appointed as a scout at his former club. Georgiadis after was called up to coach the Greece U21, after the previous coach Nikos Nioplias was named to coach Panathinaikos. In May 2013, Georgiadis was appointed caretaker manager for PAOK in place of Giorgos Donis[4] successfully steering them to a first-place finish in the Super League playoffs. In March 2014, was appointed as caretaker manager of PAOK in place of Huub Stevens.[5] In March 2015, he was appointed once again as caretaker manager for PAOK in place of Angelos Anastasiadis.

On 18 June 2015, he was appointed as Veria manager.

On 5 September 2016, he was appointed Trikala manager.

On 13 January 2018, he returned to PAOK after being appointed as a scout, working for Ľuboš Micheľ in finding young Greek talents.[6]

Career statistics

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Appearances and goals by club, season and competition[7]
Club Season League Cup Europe Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Doxa Drama 1990–91 Alpha Ethniki 31 7 31 7
1991–92 33 5 33 5
1992–93 13 5 13 5
Total 77 17
Panathinaikos 1992–93 Alpha Ethniki 21 4 21 4
1993–94 31 6 4 2 35 8
1994–95 30 10 4 0 35 10
1995–96 31 10 8 1 39 11
1996–97 31 9 2 1 34 10
1997–98 32 21 32 21
Total 176 60
Newcastle United 1998–99 Premier League 10 0 2 1 12 1
PAOK 1999–2000 Alpha Ethniki 26 5 4 2 2 2 32 9
2000–01 26 8 11 6 2 0 39 14
2001–02 25 15 5 2 6 0 36 17
2002–03 28 14 9 3 6 1 43 18
Total 105 42 29 13 16 3 150 58
Olympiacos 2003–04 Alpha Ethniki 28 6 7 3 6 0 41 9
2004–05 16 3 0 0 5 0 21 3
Total 44 9 7 3 11 0 62 12
Iraklis 2005–06 Alpha Ethniki 22 5 0 0 22 5
2006–07 14 1 2 0 2 0 18 1
Total 36 6 2 0 2 0 40 6
PAOK 2006–07 Alpha Ethniki 13 1 1 0 14 1
2007–08 25 2 1 0 26 2
Total 38 3 2 0 0 0 40 3
Career total 486 137 42 17 49 7 577 161

Managerial statistics

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As of 16 January 2017
Team From To Record
G W D L Win %
Greece U-19 1 July 2009 30 June 2010 4 2 2 0 050.00
Greece U-21 21 January 2010 1 June 2012 19 10 2 7 052.63
PAOK 29 April 2013 14 June 2013 6 3 0 3 050.00
PAOK 3 March 2014 30 June 2014 16 8 4 4 050.00
PAOK 16 March 2015 30 June 2015 13 4 4 5 030.77
Veria 1 July 2015 19 January 2016 23 6 8 9 026.09
Trikala 5 September 2016 16 January 2017 13 5 4 4 038.46
Career totals 94 38 24 32 040.43

Honours

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Panathinaikos

Newcastle United

PAOK

Olympiacos

Greece

Individual

References

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  1. ^ "Georgiadis, Georgios Charalambous". Kicker.de. Olympia-Verlag. Retrieved 10 August 2014.
  2. ^ a b Also known as Georgios Georgiadis of Charalambous (Γιώργος Γεωργιάδης του Χαραλάμπους).
    In English his name has been written as either Georgios H. Geordiadis or Georgios C. Geordiadis, to differentiate him from a different player, Georgios S. (Savas) Geordiadis, who played from 1993 to 2005. The two players were teammates at Panathinaikos from 1993 to 1998.
  3. ^ Turnbull, Simon (7 March 1999). "Geordie hero has Georgia in mind". The Independent. London. Retrieved 6 November 2009.
  4. ^ "Γεωργιάδης αντί Δώνη στον ΠΑΟΚ, www.epiloges.gr". Archived from the original on 26 April 2014. Retrieved 25 April 2014.
  5. ^ Στον πάγκο του ΠΑΟΚ ο Γιώργος Γεωργιάδης, www.agelioforos.gr Archived 26 April 2014 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ Η επιστροφή του Γεωργιάδη "ακουμπά" στον Μαυροπάνο, www.sport24.gr
  7. ^ "Giorgos X Georgiadis". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann.
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