John Tambouras
John Tambouras ( born January 30, 1979 in Darwin) is a former Australian football player who won national titles on three continents in the course of his career.
Career
Tambouras began his career with the Greek embossed club South Melbourne FC in the National Soccer League ( NSL) and arrived there at championship win in 1998/99 to a league use. In 2000 he moved to Greece to Kalamata FC, for whom he played until 2003. He then returned to the NSL and played in the last year of existence for the New Zealand Club Football Kingz.
In the newly established before the season 2005 /06 Australian A-League professional league he came under the sole representative of New Zealand, the New Zealand Knights, former Football Kingz. After a disappointing season with just six points from 21 games, he moved to Malaysia Pahang FA, with whom he won the Malaysian FA Cup 2006. The end of 2006 he returned for a short time to the Knights and played against the end of season three more games in the A-League, where he scored one goal.
In January 2007, he completed a trial with Romanian club Universitatea Craiova, but received no contract and found only in the summer of the year with the Irish first division club Drogheda United a new club. With Drogheda Tambouras won the 2007 Irish Championship and came to the club until his departure after the 2008 season to a total of 23 league operations. He subsequently played for six months for the Azerbaijani club Neftchi Baku, before he returned to Australia, where Queensland Fury signed a one-year contract with the newly formed A- League team North.
In February 2010 Tambouras was invited by the Chinese club Guangzhou Evergrande for trial. During his guest performance of the club was doomed to relegation to the second league due back at 2007 reaching bribes, Tambouras eventually signed but still a financially lucrative one-year contract with the future second division. However, his guest thereat game ended after a few months and then Tambouras ended his professional career. He subsequently took a job as a coach at youth level with the regional Football Association of the Northern Territory.
Achievements
- Australian champion: 1998/99
- Irish Champion: 2007
- Malaysian FA Cup winner: 2006