Giourkas Seitaridis

Georgios " Giourkas " Seitaridis (Greek Γεώργιος " Γιούρκας " Σεϊταρίδης, born June 4, 1981 in Piraeus) is a Greek football player.

Career

His professional career began Seitaridis at the Greek club PAS Ioannina, in the youth departments he already played before. In summer 2001, he moved to Greek club Panathinaikos top. There he matured, not least because of his performances in the Champions League to become a world class defender, and showed this also at the European Championships in Portugal in 2004, when he won the title with Greece. He played through in all parts of the Greeks and got in the finals won the yellow card.

After the EM Seitaridis moved for a transfer fee of 3 million Euros to the former Portuguese champions and Champions League winners FC Porto and won the World Cup there. At the start of the 2005/06 season he then changed again to the Russian club Dynamo Moscow, which paid 10 million euros for the Greeks, which is the highest amount to date, the money ever spent on a Greek player. After a year with Dynamo Moscow, he joined the 2006/07 season for a transfer fee of 6 million euros for Spanish side Atlético Madrid. On April 29, 2009, he was suspended together with Maniche, who moved to the 1 FC Cologne, due to undisciplined behavior on the part of the club's management Atlético Madrid from the game. The contract was dissolved at the end of the season.

National

The career in the Greek national Seitaridis began first in the U21 national team of Greece, with which he also took part in the U21 European Championship in Switzerland in 2002. Seitaridis difference with the Greeks in the group phase.

In the senior team, he played for the first time at the European Championship qualifiers for the European Championship finals in Portugal. Here, he had a supporting role as a right-back and was instrumental in the qualification for the tournament. During the European Championships in Portugal, he was at all the games and also in the final on time and thus established itself permanently in the national team. As reigning European champions Greece joined with Seitaridis also the Confederations Cup in Germany in 2005, retired from there but in the preliminary round. He has only been used in a game. Even in the World Cup qualifiers for the World Cup finals in Germany Seitaridis played for the Greek national team. However, the Greeks missed the qualification, as they could not prevail against the Ukraine and Turkey.

Seitaridis belonged to the squad of the Greeks for the 2008 European football championships in Austria and Switzerland. In the first game played against Sweden he played through yet, but in the second he was after 40 minutes, replaced due to a groin injury, Giorgos Karagounis of. He was then forced to watch as Greece as a group Last eliminated from the tournament.

Achievements

  • Greek champion: 2004, 2010
  • Greek Cup winner: 2004, 2010
  • European Championship: 2004
  • World Cup winner: 2004
  • National football team (Greece )
  • Greek
  • Greek Champions ( Football)
  • European Soccer Championships
  • Born in 1981
  • Man
Defender (association football) PAS Giannina F.C.
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