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{{short description|Greek footballer and manager}}
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'''Tryfon Tzanetis''' ([[Greek language|Greek]]: Τρύφων Τζανετής) was a [[Greece|Greek]] [[Football (soccer)|football]] player and coach. Born in 1918, he was a best known as a [[striker|forward]] for [[AEK Athens FC]] during the 1930s and 1940s, partnering [[Kleanthis Maropoulos]] in AEK's front line. Late in his career he was converted into a [[defender (football)|centre back]] by his coach.
{{Infobox football biography
| name = Tryfon Tzanetis
| image = Tryfon Tzanetis.jpg
| caption = Tryfon Tzanetis
| birth_date = 1918
| birth_place = [[İzmir|Smyrna]], [[Ottoman Empire]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1998|9|8|1918}}
| death_place = [[Athens]], Greece
| position = [[Forward (association football)#Striker|Striker]], [[center back]]
| youthyears1 = 1932–1933
| youthclubs1 = [[Eleftheroupoli F.C.|Eleftheroupoli]]
| youthyears2 = 1933–1935
| youthclubs2 = [[AEK Athens F.C.|AEK Athens]]
| years1 = 1935–1951
| clubs1 = [[AEK Athens F.C.|AEK Athens]]
| caps1 = 19
| goals1 = 1
| totalcaps = 19
| totalgoals = 1
| nationalyears1 = 1949
| nationalteam1 = [[Greece national football team|Greece]]
| nationalcaps1 = 1
| nationalgoals1 = 0
| manageryears1 = 1950–1951
| managerclubs1 = [[Egaleo F.C.|Egaleo]]
| manageryears2 = 1951–1952
| managerclubs2 = [[AEK Athens F.C.|AEK Athens]]
| manageryears3 = 1954–1955
| managerclubs3 = [[AEK Athens F.C.|AEK Athens]]
| manageryears4 = 1956–1957
| managerclubs4 = [[AEK Athens F.C.|AEK Athens]]
| manageryears5 = 1958–1959
| managerclubs5 = [[Egaleo F.C.|Egaleo]]
| manageryears6 = 1960–1961
| managerclubs6 = [[Greece national football team|Greece]]
| manageryears7 = 1961–1962
| managerclubs7 = [[AEK Athens F.C.|AEK Athens]]
| manageryears8 = 1962–1964
| managerclubs8 = [[Greece national football team|Greece]]
| manageryears9 = 1965–1967
| managerclubs9 = [[AEK Athens F.C.|AEK Athens]]
| manageryears10 = 1967–1968
| managerclubs10 = [[Apollon Smyrnis F.C.|Apollon Athens]]
}}


'''Tryfon Tzanetis''' ({{Lang-el|Τρύφων Τζανετής 1918 – 8 September1998}}) was a [[Greeks|Greek]] [[Association football|footballer]] and a later manager. He was best known as a great figure for [[AEK Athens F.C.|AEK Athens]] during the 30's and 40's, partnering [[Kleanthis Maropoulos]] in AEK's front line.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Zosimaia.gr|script-title=el:Το ερασιτεχνικό ποδόσφαιρο στα Γιάννινα 1918–1966|url=http://www.zosimaia.gr/?page=article&id=75|language=Greek|accessdate=11 January 2012|website=zosimaia.gr}}</ref> Tzanetis also contributed to AEK by coaching the club during the 50's and 60's.
During his playing career Tzanetis was capped once by [[Greek National Football Team|Greece]].


==Early life==
After his playing days were over, Tzanetis took up coaching and was AEK's coach in: 1952, 1955, 1961, 1962 and 1966. In between his stints with AEK he was also coach of the [[Greek National Football Team]] (1960, 1961, 1963, 1964) with a record of 5 wins, 1 draw and 5 losses.
Tzanetis was born in 1918 in [[İzmir|Smyrna]], from [[Naxos|Naxian]] parents. After the [[Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922)|Asia Minor disaster]], his family moved to [[Athens]] and installed at the district of [[Nea Ionia]].


==Club career==
[[Category:1918 births|Tzanetis, Tryfon]]
[[File:AEK before 1940.jpg|thumb|left|[[Alekos Chatzistavridis|Chatzistavridis]], Tzanetis, [[Kleanthis Maropoulos|Maropoulos]] and [[Kostas Christodoulou|Christodoulou]] in 1939]]
[[Category:2001 deaths|Tzanetis, Tryfon]]
[[File:AEK PAOK 9-6-1940.jpg|thumb|left|[[Kostas Vasiliou|Vasiliou]] (left) with [[Alekos Chatzistavridis|Chatzistavridis]], Tzanetis, [[Kleanthis Maropoulos|Maropoulos]] and Kitidis in 1940]]
[[Category:AEK Athens F.C. players|Tzanetis, Tryfon]]
Tzanetis started playing football in 1932 at [[Eleftheroupoli F.C.|Eleftheroupoli]]. In 1933, people of [[AEK Athens F.C.|AEK Athens]] scouted him and he signed a sport's card with the club. He started from the youth departments of AEK and he was promoted to the men's team in 1935, alongside [[Kleanthis Maropoulos|Maropoulos]] and participated in an official match.
[[Category:Greek footballers|Tzanetis, Tryfon]]
[[Category:AEK Athens F.C. managers]]
[[Category:Greece international footballers|Tzanetis, Tryfon]]
[[Category:People from İzmir|Tzanetis, Tryfon]]


He was a member to the great team of the yellow-blacks in the late 30s, having teammates, such as Kleanthis Maropoulos, [[Spyros Sklavounos]] and [[Spyros Kontoulis]]. He started his career as a [[Forward (association football)#Striker|striker]], but later in his career he became a [[Defender (association football)#Centre-back|central defender]], when the then coach, [[Jack Beby]] relocated him, in the [[Formation (association football)#WM|WM system]] that he applied since he came to [[Greece]] in 1948. His presence was imposing. He was insightful, extremely fast, creative and team and in addition to being an aggressive midfielder, he was also distinguished by his inhibitions. With AEK he won 4 times the [[Athens Football Clubs Association|FCA Championship]], 2 consecutive [[Super League Greece|Panhellenic Championships]] and 3 [[Greek Football Cup|Greek Cups]], including the first domestic double by a Greek club in 1939.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://orinosaxotis.blogspot.com/2015/10/blog-post_8.html|title=Τρύφωνας Τζανετής}}</ref>
[[el:Τρύφωνας Τζανετής]]

[[pl:Tryfon Tzanetis]]
==International career==
He wore once the jersey of [[Greece national football team|Greece]] on 25 May 1949, against [[Italy national football B team|Italy B]] in a 2–3 defeat, with Tzanetis coming from the bench on the 46th minute.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.epo.gr/Default.aspx?a_id=40743|title=Tryfon Tzanetis at epo.gr}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.epo.gr/media/files/ETHNIKES_OMADES/MATCH_ANDRES_1929-2000/ethniki_andrwn_1948-50.pdf|title=Greece matches 1948–1950|website=epo.gr}}</ref>

==Managerial career==
In 1950 after his playing days were over, Tzanetis took up coaching [[Egaleo F.C.|Egaleo]] in the first division of Athens for a season before returning to AEK Athens.

He found himself as the coach of AEK in many periods in the 50s and 60s (1951, 1954, 1956, 1961 and 1965), leading the club to the Greek Cup in [[1965–66 Greek Football Cup|1966]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oldfootball.gr/k2/user-page/item/186-o-telikos-aek-olympiakoy-pou-den-egine-pote.html|title=Ο τελικός ΑΕΚ - Ολυμπιακού που δεν έγινε ποτέ|date=8 May 2016|lang=el|website=oldfootball.gr|archive-date=10 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190810090629/http://www.oldfootball.gr/k2/user-page/item/186-o-telikos-aek-olympiakoy-pou-den-egine-pote.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Tzanetis also coached [[Apollon Smyrnis F.C.|Apollon Athens]] which was the last club of his career. He was also a selector of the Greece military national football team, where he won the [[World Military Cup]] in 1962.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesm/military.html#62|title=World Military Championship|website=[[RSSSF]]}}</ref> From 1960 to 1964 (in two different periods) he was the coach of Greece with a record of 5 wins, 1 draw and 5 losses.

==After football==
He identified on the pitch and in life with Kleanthis Maropoulos, with whom he remained friends and partners in a sporting goods store in the center of Athens, until the end of the latter's life, in 1991. Seven years later, Tzanetis died.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tanea.gr/1998/09/09/sports/anwthen-entoli/|title=Άνωθεν εντολή|date=9 September 1998|website=tanea.gr}}</ref>

==Honours==

===As a player===

'''AEK Athens'''
*[[Super League Greece|Panhellenic Championship]]: [[1938–39 Panhellenic Championship|1938–39]], [[1939–40 Panhellenic Championship|1939–40]]
*[[Greek Football Cup|Greek Cup]]: [[1938–39 Greek Football Cup|1938–39]], [[1948–49 Greek Football Cup|1948–49]], [[1949–50 Greek Football Cup|1949–50]]
*[[Athens Football Clubs Association|Athens FCA Championship]]: 1940, 1946, 1947, 1950

===As a coach===

'''AEK Athens'''
*Greek Cup: [[1965–66 Greek Football Cup|1965–66]]

'''Greece military'''
*[[World Military Cup]]: 1962

==See also==
*[[List of one-club men in association football]]

==References==
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[[Category:Emigrants from the Ottoman Empire to Greece]]
[[Category:AEK Athens F.C. managers]]
[[Category:Greece men's international footballers]]
[[Category:Smyrniote Greeks]]
[[Category:Men's association football forwards]]
[[Category:Greek football managers]]
[[Category:Men's association football central defenders]]
[[Category:Eleftheroupoli F.C. players]]
[[Category:Footballers from İzmir]]
[[Category:Footballers from Athens]]
[[Category:Greek men's footballers]]

Revision as of 11:01, 13 May 2024

Tryfon Tzanetis
Tryfon Tzanetis
Personal information
Date of birth 1918
Place of birth Smyrna, Ottoman Empire
Date of death 8 September 1998(1998-09-08) (aged 79–80)
Place of death Athens, Greece
Position(s) Striker, center back
Youth career
1932–1933 Eleftheroupoli
1933–1935 AEK Athens
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1935–1951 AEK Athens 19 (1)
Total 19 (1)
International career
1949 Greece 1 (0)
Managerial career
1950–1951 Egaleo
1951–1952 AEK Athens
1954–1955 AEK Athens
1956–1957 AEK Athens
1958–1959 Egaleo
1960–1961 Greece
1961–1962 AEK Athens
1962–1964 Greece
1965–1967 AEK Athens
1967–1968 Apollon Athens
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Tryfon Tzanetis (Greek: Τρύφων Τζανετής 1918 – 8 September1998) was a Greek footballer and a later manager. He was best known as a great figure for AEK Athens during the 30's and 40's, partnering Kleanthis Maropoulos in AEK's front line.[1] Tzanetis also contributed to AEK by coaching the club during the 50's and 60's.

Early life

Tzanetis was born in 1918 in Smyrna, from Naxian parents. After the Asia Minor disaster, his family moved to Athens and installed at the district of Nea Ionia.

Club career

Chatzistavridis, Tzanetis, Maropoulos and Christodoulou in 1939
Vasiliou (left) with Chatzistavridis, Tzanetis, Maropoulos and Kitidis in 1940

Tzanetis started playing football in 1932 at Eleftheroupoli. In 1933, people of AEK Athens scouted him and he signed a sport's card with the club. He started from the youth departments of AEK and he was promoted to the men's team in 1935, alongside Maropoulos and participated in an official match.

He was a member to the great team of the yellow-blacks in the late 30s, having teammates, such as Kleanthis Maropoulos, Spyros Sklavounos and Spyros Kontoulis. He started his career as a striker, but later in his career he became a central defender, when the then coach, Jack Beby relocated him, in the WM system that he applied since he came to Greece in 1948. His presence was imposing. He was insightful, extremely fast, creative and team and in addition to being an aggressive midfielder, he was also distinguished by his inhibitions. With AEK he won 4 times the FCA Championship, 2 consecutive Panhellenic Championships and 3 Greek Cups, including the first domestic double by a Greek club in 1939.[2]

International career

He wore once the jersey of Greece on 25 May 1949, against Italy B in a 2–3 defeat, with Tzanetis coming from the bench on the 46th minute.[3][4]

Managerial career

In 1950 after his playing days were over, Tzanetis took up coaching Egaleo in the first division of Athens for a season before returning to AEK Athens.

He found himself as the coach of AEK in many periods in the 50s and 60s (1951, 1954, 1956, 1961 and 1965), leading the club to the Greek Cup in 1966.[5]

Tzanetis also coached Apollon Athens which was the last club of his career. He was also a selector of the Greece military national football team, where he won the World Military Cup in 1962.[6] From 1960 to 1964 (in two different periods) he was the coach of Greece with a record of 5 wins, 1 draw and 5 losses.

After football

He identified on the pitch and in life with Kleanthis Maropoulos, with whom he remained friends and partners in a sporting goods store in the center of Athens, until the end of the latter's life, in 1991. Seven years later, Tzanetis died.[7]

Honours

As a player

AEK Athens

As a coach

AEK Athens

Greece military

See also

References

  1. ^ Το ερασιτεχνικό ποδόσφαιρο στα Γιάννινα 1918–1966. zosimaia.gr (in Greek). Zosimaia.gr. Retrieved 11 January 2012.
  2. ^ "Τρύφωνας Τζανετής".
  3. ^ "Tryfon Tzanetis at epo.gr".
  4. ^ "Greece matches 1948–1950" (PDF). epo.gr.
  5. ^ "Ο τελικός ΑΕΚ - Ολυμπιακού που δεν έγινε ποτέ". oldfootball.gr (in Greek). 8 May 2016. Archived from the original on 10 August 2019.
  6. ^ "World Military Championship". RSSSF.
  7. ^ "Άνωθεν εντολή". tanea.gr. 9 September 1998.
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