Yiannis Papadopoulos
Giannis Papadopoulos (Greek Γιάννης Παπαδόπουλος, also transcribed as Yiannis and Ioannis, born March 9, 1989 in Thessaloniki ) is a Greek football player who stands since 2014 Cracovia Krakow under contract. It is footed and is preferably used as a central midfielder.
Career
Association
Papadopoulos learned to play football with his hometown club Iraklis Thessaloniki. For the 2006/07 season he was transferred to the first team of the club, but was initially only sporadically used. In the following season Papadopoulos became an integral part of the team and completed 20 league games in which he was able to score a goal. He was then committed to the 2008/09 season from reigning champions Olympiakos Piraeus. In Olympiakos be Papadopoulos but could not permanently prevail against the competition in central midfield. He played in three years, only 28 league games ( without scoring ), so he agreed in the summer of 2011 with the club's management on an early release from his original dated before June 30, 2012 contract. Papadopoulos Then moved abroad and signed on 8 August of the same year a two-year contract with the German second-division Dynamo Dresden Movers. Even with Dynamo, he could fight no permanent regular place and completed in two years, only 33 league games ( without scoring ). Therefore Papadopoulos returned after the expiry of the contract period back to his home and signed a one-year contract with Aris Thessaloniki. In the first half of the 2013/14 season he came in 16 league games for use. For the second half of the 2013/14 season Papadopoulos moved to Poland KS Cracovia Cracow, where he wrote for two and a half years.
National
Papadopoulos denied for various junior national teams in his home country a total of 35 matches in which he was able to achieve eight goals. He took part, among other things with the Greek U-19 selection at the 2007 European Championship in Austria and won there with his team to second place. At the 2008 European Championship in the Czech Republic Papadopoulos difference with the U-19 national team, however, as a group, fourth after the first round of. With the U- 21 team, he even failed to qualify for European Championship 2011 in Denmark.
On 11 August 2010 Papadopoulos received his first and only match for the national team when he came off the bench in the 0-1 defeat against Serbia for the second half Sotirios Kyrgiakos for.
Achievements
- Second in the U-19 European Championship 2007
- Greek Champion 2009, 2011
- Greek Cup Winner 2009