Pambos Christodoulou
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| Personal information | |||
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| Date of birth | 17 October 1967 | ||
| Place of birth | Galata, Cyprus | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Omonia (coach) | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| –1989 | Doxa Katokopias | ||
| 1990–1995 | Olympiakos Nicosia | ||
| 1996–2002 | AEK Larnaca | ||
| Teams managed | |||
| 2006–2010 | Doxa Katokopias | ||
| 2010–2011 | Olympiakos Nicosia | ||
| 2011–2012 | AEL Limassol | ||
| 2013 | Anorthosis | ||
| 2014–2015 | Cyprus | ||
| 2016–2017 | AEL Limassol | ||
| 2017– | Omonia | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Pambos Christodoulou (born 17 October 1967, Galata) is a Cypriot football manager. He is well known for his very good team building skills.
Christodoulou played as a defensive midfielder for Olympiakos Nicosia in the Cyprus First Division, between 1990–1995, having moved from Doxa Katokopias, which then played in the second division of Cyprus. He subsequently went to AEK Larnaca in the first division, before deciding to become a manager at the age of 39 in the 2006 season for Doxa Katokopias.
In 2006, he took on his first managerial appointment with Doxa Katokopia FC then in the Cyprus Second Division. Doxa got promoted finishing 3rd in the last day of the season. In the next season, newly promoted Doxa would be favourite for relegation, however Pambos showed his cunning team building skills. He spent a lot of time in Portugal hunting for players with good technical skills, a good team spirit, with speed and on a low budget. He managed to find such players in the 2nd and 3rd levels in Portugal on a budget that Doxa could afford. The first player he signed was Angolan born Portuguese left back Rui Paulo Silva Júnior, who subsequently became a good friend and after retiring as a footballer would join him as Director of football at AEL Limassol. He used the player agent Costas Christodoulou (Karavidas) to help him bring the players to Cyprus and subsequently learned the tricks of the trade himself, in 2011 the Olympiakos Nicosia supporters club cast doubt on Christodoulou's scouting prowress by claiming that player agent Karavidas in fact finds and signs the players. Chrisodoulou vehemently denies this and is moving legally against the Olympiakos supporters for libel as he claims that Rui Junior and himself scout and find the players. By overhauling Doxa's squad every season and building it nearly from scratch, some have argued this was done to gain more commission for everyone involved from bringing new players every year, but this is disputed as with this strategy he saved minnows Doxa from relegation for three consecutive years. These players mainly hailed from Portugal, Angola and Brazil. Pambos brought some notably good strikers to Cyprus that were crowned as top scorers for Doxa and in the Cypriot First Division such as Brazilians: David, Serjão and Portuguese Henrique as well as Angolan Freddy. He managed with this formula and with his trusted coaching team of: Assistant coach Marios Markou, Goalkeeping Coach Andreas Mavris, fitness coach Sotiris Charalambous and Kokos Evripidou and by playing attractive attacking football, against all odds kept Doxa in the Cypriot First Division for a record three consecutive years. When he left in 2010, something that underlies his good team building skills, for a bigger challenge in his career with Olympiakos Nicosia, Doxa was relegated back to the Cypriot Second Division.
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