Alketas Panagoulias

Alketas Panagoulias
Personnel
birthday	May 30, 1934
place of birth	Thessaloniki ,  Greece
date of death	June 18, 2012
Place of death	Vienna , Virginia ,  United States
position	striker
Juniors
Years	station
1949-1951	Aris Thessaloniki
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1951-1962	Aris Thessaloniki
1962-1965	Greek American Atlas SC
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1967-1971	Greek American Atlas SC
1972-1973	Greece (assistant coach)
1973-1981	Greece
1981-1983	Olympiacos Piraeus
1983	Team America
1983-1985	United States
1985-1987	Olympiacos Piraeus
1987-1990	Aris Thessaloniki
1992-1994	Greece
1997	Iraklis Thessaloniki
1998-1999	Aris Thessaloniki
1 Only league games are given.

Alketas Panagoulias ( Greek Αλκέτας Παναγούλιας , born May 30, 1934 in Thessaloniki ; † June 18, 2012 in Vienna , Virginia , USA ) was a Greek football player , coach and politician .

Career

After graduating, he went to the United States in the early 1960s. There he initially coached the Greek American Atlas Soccer Club, a US football club for Greek immigrants. With Atlas he won three US Open Cup titles in 1967, 1968 and 1969.

In the early 1970s Panagoulias came back to his homeland. In 1972 he became assistant coach of the Northern Irishman Billy Bingham in the Greek national team. A year later he took over the scepter in Greece. During his time, he qualified for the 1980 European Football Championship in Italy , where Greece was eliminated from the bottom of the group. After the EM he took over the Greek club Olympiacos in 1981 . He stayed for two years and was able to win two Greek championship titles.

From 1983 to 1985 he was the coach of the national soccer team in his second home, the USA. In 1984 he took part in the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles as coach of the US Olympic team. There he retired with the USA as the bottom of the group in the preliminary round.

In 1985 he returned to Greece. He took over Olympiacos again for two seasons and was able to look forward to a championship title again in 1987. From 1987 to 1990 he coached the club where he had already played as a player, Aris Thessaloniki . Two years after the end of his contract with Aris, he took over the Greek national team again and led them to their first final participation in a world championship, at the soccer world championship in 1994 in the USA. The team lost all three games and couldn't even score a goal. The last two coaching stations were from 1996 to 1998 Iraklis Thessaloniki and 1998–1999 Aris Thessaloniki. He then retired from football and became a politician.

He became a member of the city council of Thessaloniki and ran for the Greek Parliament and for the European Parliament as representative of Greece. He was also a FIFA instructor and held several positions in American football. He was the father of two children, a son and a daughter.

death

After a brief illness, he died on June 18, 2012 in his residence in Vienna, Virginia . The Greek national team, which played against Germany on June 22, 2012 as part of the European Football Championship, played Panagoulias with a black ribbon in honor of Panagoulias.

successes

• Greek champion : 1982, 1983, 1987

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Greece's ex-national coach Panagoulias dead (German) , Welt Online. Retrieved June 19, 2012. 
2. ↑ Greeks mourn Panagoulias (German) , Sport1.de. Retrieved June 19, 2012. 
3. ↑ «Εφυγε» ο Αλκέτας Παναγούλιας (Greek) , Ethnos.gr. Archived from the original on June 20, 2012. Retrieved June 19, 2012. 
4. ↑ Greece mourns Alketas Panagoulias