Stelios Giannakopoulos
Stelios playing for Greece in 2008
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Stylianos Giannakopoulos | ||
| Date of birth | 12 July 1974 | ||
| Place of birth | Athens, Greece | ||
| Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||
| Playing position | Attacking midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1991 | Fostiras Kesarianis | ||
| 1991–1992 | Ethnikos Asteras | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1992–1993 | Ethnikos Asteras | 32 | (6) |
| 1993–1996 | Paniliakos | 84 | (26) |
| 1996–2003 | Olympiacos | 190 | (64) |
| 2003–2008 | Bolton Wanderers | 137 | (20) |
| 2008–2009 | Hull City | 2 | (0) |
| 2009–2010 | AEL | 19 | (3) |
| Total | 464 | (119) | |
| National team | |||
| 1997–2008 | Greece | 77 | (12) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2012–2013 | Paniliakos | ||
| 2016– | Kifisia | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Stylianos "Stelios" Giannakopoulos (Greek: Στυλιανός "Στέλιος" Γιαννακόπουλος; born 12 July 1974), popularly known as Stelios, is a Greek former footballer and currently a professional Firefighter working for the Hellenic Fire Service.
During his playing career, Giannakopoulos played as an attacking midfielder and was one of the best known Greek footballers internationally, due to his successful spells with Olympiacos and Bolton Wanderers as well as his appearances with the 2004 European championship-winning Greek national team.
Born in Athens, Stelios is the second son of Alekos Giannakopoulos, a retired football player who had enjoyed Division A football in the 1960s. He joined Ethnikos Asteras (the semi-professional club of his neighbourhood Kaisariani) when he was seven years old, later moved for one year to Doxa Vyronas, and finally made his first-team debut for Ethnikos Asteras in the autumn of 1991, in a season which ended with the club gaining promotion to the professional Third Division. Next year, in his opening season as a professional, the young striker found himself scoring six goals and impressing the scouters of clubs that participated in higher divisions. In the summer of 1993 he moved to Paniliakos; he stayed there for three years, scoring 26 goals in 84 games and establishing himself as a member of the national U21 team.
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