Panny Nikas
Nikas during a youth game for the Mariners (2009)
Panagiotis " Panny " Nikas ( born July 27, 1988 in Kogarah ) is an Australian football player of Greek origin.
Career
Nikas played 2008 for Penrith Nepean United in the NSW Premier League and changed for the 2009 season for Premier League rivals Sutherland Sharks. He won with the Sharks in the same year the championship and was not least due to his 14 goal of the season at the end of the season in the " 2009 Football NSW All Star Team " is selected. In the summer of 2009 Nikas joined the junior team of the Central Coast Mariners and served as team captain in the National Youth League. With twelve goals this season he was critical to the achievement of the first place of Regular Season involved, failed with the team but then in the semi-finals of the Championship play-offs. Of the players in the league, he was voted the best player of the season 2009/10.
Early December 2009, signed the midfielder in the Mariners a professional contract for the remainder of the season after the Treaty of David D' Apuzzo had been dissolved. His professional debut in the A-League he was by Substitutes on 31 December 2009 against Wellington Phoenix. Despite his achievements in the junior league, Nikas received by new coach Graham Arnold at the end of the season not constitute an offer for the professional team; for a place in the youth team, he was at the end of the season too old. After his departure at the Mariners Nikas be kept for several months at the Sutherland Sharks fit, before he returned to the A-League and signed a contract with North Queensland Fury. The club had put together a largely new squad after financial problems for the 2010/11 season.
Nikas came in the first twelve league matches of North Queensland only once for use only after he had given on 10 November against Melbourne Heart in the 2:3 defeat for new face and be prepared for a hit, he was for most of the rest of the season to core team. His only goal of the season, he scored in January 2011 at a 1:8 defeat, the worst defeat until then an A -League team, against Adelaide United. The performance of the team were dropped from mid December after serious doubts in the continuation of the club came up over the end of the season also. On 1 March 2011 the Australian Association withdrew finally North Queensland Fury and the license Nikas ' contract was void.
Nikas then went again back to the Sutherland Sharks, the desired return to professional football failed Nikas since then; a change to the Chinese club Henan Jianye not materialized.