Stelios Giannakopoulos

Stelios Giannakopoulos (Greek Στυλιανός " Στέλιος " Γιαννακόπουλος, born July 12, 1974 in Athens ) is a Greek football player.

Club career

Career start

Giannakopoulos career began in Greece in 1992 at the club Ethnikos Astera, where he already in his first season was one of the key players and scored six goals. At the end of the season he moved to Panileiakos Pyrgou, where he remained three years. During this period he met 26 times in 84 games, and aroused the desire of the big clubs.

The years at Olympiakos

In the summer of 1996, Olympiacos secured his services. Over the next seven seasons Giannakopoulos played there as a regular player. In 189 appearances in dress from Olympiakos, he scored 63 goals. He won in each season, the Greek Championship and reached the quarter- finals of the Champions League in the 1998-99 season.

The years at Bolton

After ten years of a successful career in Greece in 2003, he moved to Bolton Wanderers. His first game in the Premier League he played against Manchester United. He summarized here fast walk and helped the Wanderers the final of the League Cup in 2004 reached. He remained until the end of the season 2007/ 08 at the Wanderers.

After expiry of his contract at Bolton Wanderers, Giannakopoulos was without a club. End of September 2008 changed the hitherto without clubs players for Premier League newly promoted Hull City. In 2010, he finished his career at Larisa.

Career in the national team

Stelios Giannakopoulos began his career in the Greek National Team on March 12, 1997 game against Cyprus. One of his most important and notable games in the dress of the national team was the game against Spain in the European Championship Qualifiers Euro 2004, which was won 1-0. In addition, he was one of the key players of the team which won the 2004 European Football Championship in Portugal. Giannakopoulos has been for several years an important performers in the national team and was elected in 2005 to the best footballers in Greece. In 2005 he also took part in the Confederations Cup, where he played in all games. In 2008 he was part of the squad for the European Championship in Austria and Switzerland and completed 2 of the 3 games of the Greeks.

• Man
• Born in 1974
• Greek Champions ( Football)
• National football team (Greece )
• Greek
• European Soccer Championships