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Ioannis Matzourakis

Ioannis Matzourakis
Personal information
Date of birth (1948-06-06) 6 June 1948 (age 68)
Place of birth Bucharest, Romania
Playing position Midfielder / Striker
Club information
Current team
Free Agent
Youth career
1962–1967 Şcoala Sportivă 2 Bucureşti
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1967–1969 CFR Cluj 30 (15)
1969–1970 Rapid Bucharest 13 (1)
1970–1973 PAOK 40 (6)
1973–1978 Larissa 111 (28)
1975–1976 Terrassa (loan) 0 (0)
1978–1979 Iraklis 10 (0)
Total 204 (50)
National team
1969 Romania U–23 1 (0)
Teams managed
1981–1982 Chalkida
1982–1985 Egaleo
1985–1986 Kavala
1986–1987 Egaleo
1987–1988 APOP Paphos
1988–1989 Pezoporikos
1989–1990 APOEL
1990 Naoussa
1990–1993 Pierikos
1994–1995 APOEL
1995–1996 Larissa
1996–1999 Skoda Xanthi
2000–2001 Olympiacos
2002 Anorthosis
2002–2003 AEL Limassol
2004–2006 Skoda Xanthi
2007 Omonia
2007–2008 Veria
2008 Skoda Xanthi
2008–2009 OFI Crete
2009–2010 Skoda Xanthi
2011–2012 Kavala
2013–2015 Kalloni
2015 Ergotelis
2015–2017 Panetolikos
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Ioannis Matzourakis (Greek: Γιάννης Μαντζουράκης; born 6 June 1948 in Bucharest) is a Greek association football manager and former player.

Born in Romania to a Greek father and Romanian mother. His father an ethnic Greek and communist fighter was a refugee from the Greek civil war, who lived in Bucharest, right after the second World war.

Matzourakis speaks fluent Romanian and he also holds a Romanian citizenship.

Matzourakis began his youth football career with Şcoala Sportivă 2 Bucureşti where he met Mircea Lucescu who was three years older than him. He made his senior debut in Cluj-Napoca the birthplace of his mother playing for CFR Cluj in the Romanian Second Division in 1967. Matzourakis helped his side to get promoted to the Romanian First Division becoming the team's top goalscorer in the 1968–69 season. Right after their promotion, Matzourakis left Cluj to play for Rapid Bucharest. In the same year he played for the Olympic team of Romania under head coach Dumitru Teodorescu.

In 1970, he moved to Greece and played for PAOK FC winning the Greek Cup in 1972 and later he was transferred to A.E. Larissa where he spent the most of his career.

Matzourakis was signed by Spanish Segunda División side Terrassa in the 1975–76 season, but unfortunately didn't get to play any match.


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