Yves Triantafyllos
Yves Triantafilos ( born October 27, 1948 in Montbrison ) is a former French footballer.
As a player in the club
Entry into professional football (1966-1969)
His childhood was spent Triantafilos, whose father came from Istanbul, Turkey, and had fled from there because of his Greek ethnicity, grew up in the village of Sail- sous- Couzon on the Loire. As a teenager, the striker of AS Saint- Étienne was trained and managed in the season 1966/67, the jump in the Erstligakader of the association. Coach Jean Snella especially admired the ball handling and the heading ability of the then 18 -year-olds and let him come to his debut in the top domestic league championship in a match against FC Rouen on 19 February 1967. Although it remained in this single application, he was thanks to this officially the French championship team in 1967, as his teammates were able to hold their own against all competitors. Thus he had won with only 18 years of his first title at the national level.
In the summer of 1967 he moved to the vicinity of the capital Paris to perform his military service in the army. He was loaned to second-division Joinville battalion, said it was a military team of the battalion to which he belonged. Although he was not set consistently in the second division, he achieved a remarkable success rate and met in 1968/69 thirteen times the gate. Nevertheless, his return to Saint- Étienne in 1969 did not materialize, as the new coach Albert Batteux did not see him as a useful supplement his team.
Success as a striker and move to Greece (1969-1974)
Since he had no future at Saint- Étienne, he went in 1969 to the second division side U.S. Boulogne, where he was awarded a place in the starting eleven immediately. After he had his qualities already indicated in Joinville as top scorer, he met for Boulogne in his two years there 14 or 19 times. The latter was sufficient at the end of the 1970/71 season to place one of the top scorers in the northern group of the three-part division. This aroused in the summer of 1971, the interest of different French clubs, but Triantafilos decided in favor of an association from the home country of his father by joining the Greek first division club Olympiacos Piraeus. Due to the former legal situation in Greece he was ever justified only by the Greek origin of his father to play for the club. In Olympiakos he spent three years and experienced with 19, 16 and last 23 matches in terms of its Torerfolge the best time of his career. Added to this was that he won twice in series with the team in 1973 and 1974, the Championship and 1973 also the national cup competition.
First division in France (1974-1978)
1974 Triantafilos returned back after seven years away to Saint- Étienne, where he initially in the role of " Precious Jokers " usually sat under coach Robert Herbin on the bench and Georges Bereta as well as the brothers Hervé Revelli and Patrick Revelli had to let go first. From this reserve player out he could write history on November 6, 1974, when he came on against Hajduk Split in the quarter- final of the European Champions' Cup and two goals scored, ranging to progress; in the semi-finals his team was eliminated, however. In the following winter Bereta went to Olympique Marseille, which he could occupy a fixed regular place again. A role as a star player, he had gained through his many goals in Piraeus, however, he could not take it. During the season 1974/75 he scored eleven goals and thus contributed to winning the championship. In addition, the Team Cup winner was, even if the final took place without his involvement and thus it had no direct share in the profits of the trophy. In October 1975, he left the club and signed for League rivals FC Nantes. His former colleague from Saint- Étienne in 1976 and master because he had been a member of the team nor the beginning of the season, he was part of the eleven champions. In 1977, he was with his new employer Nantes sovereign master, however, had previously lost his place and had come out in the championship season not over five contested games in which he also remained goalless. At the turn of 1977/78 he changed the face of his lack of perspective in Nantes FC Rouen to Erstligakonkurrenten.
Last years (1978-1982)
In Rouen, he tried at the beginning of 1978 once the breakthrough in a first division team, which he did not succeed permanently. To this end, he had to descend as Table suffer before he left the club again in the summer of 1978. He went once more to Greece, where he was taken from the second division GS Kallithea under contract. In this he was able to return to his success as a scorer, which was expressed in 18 matches during the 1978/79 season. In 1980 he returned to France, where he was a third division from Roanne to 1982 the jersey. Triantafilos denied 77 Erstligapartien with 23 goals and 83 second division games with 49 goals in France and 90 Erstligapartien with 58 goals and 55 second division games with 30 goals in Greece. In France he won four league titles, which he succeeded in Greece twice; added a gain of the Greek Cup.
National
In the early phase of his career he was a French youth international and was selected after a tournament in Istanbul for the best player of the team. He also was a member of the Olympic team that participated for France in the Olympic football tournament in 1968. For a commitment, he did not come here. Triantafilos was 26 years old when he for the first time for the French A- National aground in a 2-0 win in a friendly against Hungary on 26 March 1975. To another use, he did not come after that.
Life outside of football
Triantafilos was first with a French mother and later with a Romanian woman who he had met in Athens, married. The second marriage ended in divorce in November 1984. Most recently, he married a pharmacist in France. After the end of his professional career, he took no further function in football and instead worked from 1984 in a real estate agency. At times, he was also proprietor of a pub.