Ioannis Amanatidis

Ioannis Amanatidis in Eintracht Frankfurt Museum ( 2010)

Ioannis Amanatidis (Greek Ιωάννης Αμανατίδης [ ʝanis Amanatidis ]; born December 3, 1981 in Kozani ) is a former Greek football player. Currently he is a fashion designer.

Childhood

Amanatidis came in Kozani to the world, but emigrated at the age of nine with his family to Germany and grew up in Stuttgart.

Club career

Amanatidis joined in 1991 the Stuttgart SC on. In 1995 he moved as a C -teenager to VfB Stuttgart.

VfB Stuttgart 2002 began his career as a professional footballer. Then he could win a regular place, he was loaned in 2000 to SpVgg Greuther Fürth. There he rapidly gained acceptance and formed a strike partnership with Francis Kioyo. After a successful season, narrowly failed in Fürth on rise, Amanatidis went back to Stuttgart. Again, he was not there to properly enforce and then moved in the winter of 2004 to Eintracht Frankfurt. But not more he succeeded in spite of his six goals scored to avoid relegation. After the striker hired at the 1st FC Kaiserslautern, but moved to July 25, 2005 again to re- ascended Eintracht Frankfurt. There Amanatidis met in the 2005/2006 season 12 times, and thus came under the top ten goalscorers ( 9th place). The following season he made with the harmony of the new league and reached the semi-finals of the DFB Cup. In the UEFA Cup, he reached the group stage.

From 2007 to 2009 was Amanatidis captain of Eintracht Frankfurt. He thus came over from Jermaine Jones, who moved to FC Schalke 04.

With the commitment Michael Skibbe as coach in 2009 began a problematic time for Amanatidis. This took him two years before the first of Funkel awarded captaincy off by several injuries, he ultimately lost his place in the team. When he repeatedly complained loudly not to be allowed to play after his recovery and also Skibbe personally attack ( " This is not based on merit !"), Threw him this early February 2011 from the team. Now Amanatidis Skibbe played for the time being no longer relevant. However Skibbe did not rule out that Amanatidis if the situation changes would become a member of the team again. On 17 February 2011 Amanatidis was pardoned and stood in the 18-man squad for the away match against 1.FC Nuremberg.

For the 2011/12 season Amanatidis was singled out by coach Armin Veh from the professional squad and trained from now to the second team. Then Amanatidis threatened to sue for the DFL and to demand because of its contractual right " professional training ". The U -23 was not part of plan by the club Eintracht Frankfurt Fußball AG, where he was an employee because of his first team contract. Amanatidis had at Eintracht Frankfurt still has a contract until 30 June 2012. On July 14, 2011 Amanatidis made ​​good on his threats and complained to the Labour Court Frankfurt am Main, where he earned a " adoption of a temporary injunction against his employer, the Eintracht Frankfurt Fußball AG, " requested. On 18 July 2011, the club announced that Amanatidis contract had been terminated and both sides will go their separate ways. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported that he had received " some two million euros " severance and moved his center of life to Limassol, Cyprus.

Amanatidis was with VfB Vice - Champion 2003 and Vice Frankfurt Cup Winner 2006.

National

For the Greek national team debuted Ioannis Amanatidis, which has its strengths especially in the head ball game and his quickness, on 20 November 2002 against Ireland.

On 17 October 2007 he scored his first goal for the national team in the European Championship qualifying match to 0:1 in Turkey, which simultaneously meant for Greece to participate in the finals of the 2008 European Championship in Austria and Switzerland.

On 9 August 2010, the striker said after 42 games in the national jersey his immediate resignation from the Greek national team. He said he would, so Amanatidis, continue to focus only on Eintracht Frankfurt and expend all his energy for that.

Amanatidis and the picture newspaper

The end of 2007 the Bild newspaper spread across Germany, the allegations of a car driver, Amanatidis have slapped them in the course of a quarrel on the road. Amanatidis denied the allegations, determined the prosecutor, the case was closed. Instead, it was now against the woman a " reader - reporters " fees charged by the Bild newspaper received after her testimony, under investigation for making false accusations.

Amanatidis was subsequently quoted in the Frankfurter Rundschau. "I 'm mad at this sleazy sheet ( ... ), which sets this shit in the world " to the question of whether it would be sensible to take on the tabloid, he replied: " The I do not care. I 'm not afraid of these people. What do you expect from a leaf that writes only dirty on the whole, and so gives a person so much attention. "

Fashion designer