Stelios Giannakopoulos
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| STELIOS | ||
| Personal information | ||
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| Full name | Stylianos Giannakopoulas | |
| Date of birth | 12/07/1974 | |
| Place of birth | Athens, Greece | |
| Position | Midfielder | |
| Club information | ||
| Current club | Bolton Wanderers | |
| Professional clubs* | ||
| Years | Club | Apps (goals) |
| 1992-1993 1993-1996 1996-2003 2003- |
Ethnikos Asteras Paniliakos Olympiakos Bolton Wanderers |
32 (6) 84 (26) 189 (63) 101 (18) |
| National team** | ||
| 1997- | Greece | 61 (12) |
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* Professional club appearances and goals |
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Stylianos Giannakopoulos (Greek: Στυλιανός Γιαννακόπουλος), popularly known as Stelios (born July 12, 1974 in Athens, Greece), is a Greek football player who currently plays for Bolton Wanderers F.C. as a midfielder.
He initially started in his homeland of Greece, spending his first playing season with Ethnikos Asteras. Having been thrust immediately into first-team action, he found himself scoring six goals in his opening season, before moving to Paniliakos, where, in the three years he spent there, he scored 26 goals in 84 games. Olympiacos CFP soon were after his signature.
However, after seven years playing in Greece he was snapped up by Bolton Wanderers. Having made his Bolton début in a 4–0 defeat to Manchester United F.C., and, growing in confidence, he was one of the players selected for the Greek national team which were victorious in the 2004 European Football Championship. One of his most important goals with the Greek national team was against Spain in Saragosa Stadium, in the qualifying session for the Euro 2004. He scored the winning goal against Arsenal in an FA Cup Fourth round match played at the Reebok Stadium on January 28, 2006.
Stelios also has the distinction of being part of the substitution that holds the record of the largest difference between the number of letters in the surnames of two players in a Premiership substitution. This occurred when he replaced Ibrahim Ba during a league game for Bolton Wanderers on February 7, 2004.
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Greece squad - UEFA EURO 2004 | |
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1 Nikopolidis | 2 Giourkas | 3 Venetidis | 4 Dabizas | 5 Dellas | 6 Basinas | 7 Zagorakis | 8 Giannakopoulos | 9 Charisteas | 10 Tsiartas | 11 Nikolaidis | 12 Chalkias | 13 Katergiannakis | 14 Fyssas | 15 Vryzas | 16 Kafes | 17 Georgiadis | 18 Goumas | 19 Kapsis | 20 Karagounis | 21 Katsouranis | 22 Papadopoulos | 23 Lakis | Coach: Rehhagel |
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| Bolton Wanderers F.C. - Current Squad |
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1 Al Habsi | 2 Hunt | 4 Nolan | 5 Méïté | 6 Speed | 7 Stelios | 8 Campo | 9 Pedersen | 11 Gardner | 12 Walker | 14 Davies | 16 Teymourian | 17 Fortune | 20 Vaz Té | 21 Diouf | 22 Jääskeläinen | 23 Tal | 24 O'Brien | 25 Faye | 26 Ben Haim | 31 Sinclair | 39 Anelka | 41 Fojut | 42 Smith | 46 Jamieson | Manager: Allardyce |
