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Nikos Karoulias

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Nikos Karoulias
Personal information
Full name Nikolaos Karoulias
Date of birth (1954-02-07) 7 February 1954 (age 70)
Place of birth Samos, Greece
Position(s) Left back, left midfielder, attacking midfielder
Youth career
1973 AEK Athens
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1973–1974 AEK Athens 3 (1)
1974–1980 Apollon Athens 45 (3)
1980–1988 Panathinaikos 152 (0)
Total 200 (4)
International career
1981–1985 Greece 31 (1)
Managerial career
1996 Proodeftiki
1997 Panathinaikos (interim)
1997–1998 Proodeftiki
1998–1999 Athinaikos
1999–2000 Proodeftiki
2001 Kallithea
2010–2011 Apollon Smyrnis
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Nikos Karoulias (Greek: Νίκος Καρούλιας; born 7 February 1954) is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a left back and a former manager.[1][2]

Club career

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Karoulias started his football career at the academies of AEK Athens, where in 1973 he was promoted to the men's team under Stan Anderson. In the summer of 1974 he transferred to Apollon Athens, as an exchange for the transfer of Christos Ardizoglou, where he remained for six years.[3]

The big leap in his career took place in the summer of 1980, when he transferred to Panathinaikos. He was distinguished for his spirited game, while the highlight of his career was his participation as a starter in the team that reached the semi-finals of the European Cup in 1985. At Panathinaikos he won 2 Championships and 4 Greek Cups and a Greek Super Cup including 2 domestic doubles in 1984 and 1986. He played in the "greens" until the 1988, when he retired at the age of 34.

International career

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Karoulias played for the first time with Greece on 14 October 1981, in the home match against Denmark (2-3), for the qualifiers of the 1982 FIFA World Cup. He participated in a total of 31 matches, scoring 1 goal.[4]

Managerial career

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After he retired as a footballer, Karoulias followed a career as a coach, with his most important moment being his brief presence at the bench of Panathinaikos in 1997,[5] while he has also worked in other clubs, including Athinaikos, Panargiakos, Olympiakos Nicosia,[3] Anorthosis Famagusta,[6] Proodeftiki, Kallithea and Apollon Smyrnis from 1996 until 2011.[7]

Honours

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Panathinaikos

References

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  1. ^ "Nikos Karoulias". weltfussball.de.
  2. ^ Nikos Karoulias at National-Football-Teams.com
  3. ^ a b "Ο Αρδίζογλου με "έστειλε" σε ΠΑΟ, Εθνική". tanea.gr. 9 May 2014.
  4. ^ "Nikos Karoulias at epo.gr". epo.gr.
  5. ^ "Panathinaikos coaches, www.pao.gr". Archived from the original on 10 November 2016. Retrieved 1 November 2016.
  6. ^ "Αφιέρωμα: Οι Ελλαδίτες προπονητές της Ανόρθωσης | anorthosis24.net". 16 February 2014.
  7. ^ "Νίκος Καρούλιας". aekpedia.com.
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