Alexandros Tzorvas
Tzorvas with Greece in 2010
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Alexandros Tzorvas | ||
| Date of birth | 12 August 1982 | ||
| Place of birth | Athens, Greece | ||
| Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Panathinaikos | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2001–2007 | Panathinaikos | 1 | (0) |
| 2001–2003 | → Agios Nikolaos (loan) | 25 | (0) |
| 2003–2004 | → Markopoulo (loan) | 11 | (0) |
| 2004–2005 | → Thrasyvoulos (loan) | 6 | (0) |
| 2007–2008 | OFI Crete | 24 | (0) |
| 2008–2011 | Panathinaikos | 59 | (0) |
| 2011–2012 | Palermo | 11 | (0) |
| 2012–2013 | Genoa | 1 | (0) |
| 2013–2014 | Apollon Smyrni | 27 | (0) |
| 2014–2015 | NorthEast United | 2 | (0) |
| Total | 167 | (0) | |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2003 | Greece U-21 | 2 | (0) |
| 2008–2012 | Greece | 16 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 16 October 2014. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 12 October 2011 |
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Alexandros Tzorvas (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Τζόρβας; born 12 August 1982) is a retired Greek footballer who last played as a goalkeeper for NorthEast United.
Ηe began his career as a member of the renowned (domazos academy) Panathinaikos football academy but, despite his potential, he found it hard to make the first team as the more experienced Antonis Nikopolidis, Konstantinos Chalkias and Stefanos Kotsolis provided more than full cover for the goalkeeping position. Due to the strong competition, and as the team laid hopes on him for the future in the next 4 years, he was loaned to the affiliated teams of Agios Nikolaos, Markopoulo and Thrasyvoulos in order to gain experience.
In 2005 Panathinaikos recalled him from loan as a cover for Mario Galinović and Pierre Ebede.
A lack of first team opportunities led to his trade to OFI with Orestis Karnezis – a hot goalkeeping prospect too – following the opposite path. A string of very good performances made him quickly a starter for the team from Crete even though his transfer was looked critically by OFI fans mainly because of what they see as one sided "colonial"-style agreements that their team is signing with Panathinaikos. In 2008, Tzorvas became the Second Greek Best Goalkeeper behind the legendary Antonis Nikopolidis.
During the 2008–09 season, Panathinaikos recalled him from OFI with Arkadiusz Malarz taking the opposite way. Although Mario Galinović was considered the first option for the goalkeeper position for the 2008–2009 season, Tzorvas had his chances already in October being in the starting eleven for a few games for the Greek Superleague and the UEFA Champions League.
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