Dimitrios Salpingidis

Dimitrios Salpingidis
Dimitrios Salpingidis (2008)
Personnel
birthday	18th August 1981
place of birth	Thessaloniki ,  Greece
size	172 cm
position	striker
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1999-2006	PAOK Thessaloniki	103 (50)
1999-2000	→  AE Larisa  (loan)	7 0(0)
2000-2002	→  AO Kavala  (loan)	43 (25)
2006-2010	Panathinaikos Athens	112 (44)
2010-2015	PAOK Thessaloniki	159 (40)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2005–	Greece	82 (13)
1 Only league games are given. Status: end of season 2014/15 2 As of October 24, 2014

Dimitrios "Dimitris" Salpingidis ( Greek Δημήτριος Σαλπιγγίδης ; born August 18, 1981 in Thessaloniki , Greece ) is a former Greek football player . He played for PAOK Thessaloniki until 2015 .

Career

Dimitrios Salpingidis, who plays in the position of the striker at a height of 1.72 m , began his professional career in 1999 at the PAOK Thessaloniki club, which is based in his hometown . Since Salpingidis did not appear until the winter break, apart from a substitution in the first round of the UEFA Cup - he scored his first goal for the club - he joined the club, which was second-rate at the time, for six months in January 2000 AE Larisa on loan, where he had seven missions by the summer. After half a year at PAOK, in which the player only made two competitive appearances in the cup, Salpingidis was loaned out again. From January 2001 to the summer of 2002 he played for the northern Greek club AO Kavala.

At Kavala Salpingidis played in the starting line-up from the start and scored 25 goals in 43 competitive games. After this breakthrough in his career, he returned to PAOK in 2002 and from then on also played a key role here. He even became the captain of the team. The highlight of his engagement at PAOK was the 2002-2003 season, when Salpingidis and his team won the Greek Cup .

In the summer of 2006 Salpingidis finally moved to Panathinaikos Athens and caused a sensation in Greece. The main reason for this was the fact that, with Panathinaikos, AEK and Olympiakos, the "Big Three" of Greek football tried to meet their obligations. The total transfer fee of around five million euros was the highest sum that was paid for a Greek player who moved within the league. Salpingidis was under contract with Panathinaikos for four years, played in the UEFA Champions League for the first time and in 2010 won the Greek championship in addition to the cup.

In 2010 Salpingidis moved back to PAOK Thessaloniki. There he played for another 5 years until his contract was terminated in the summer of 2015.

National team

Salpingidis (center) in August 2007

Salpingidis belongs to the young generation of players after winning Euro 2004 by Otto Rehhagel in the squad of the Greek national football team have been appointed. In 2004 Salpingidis took part in the Olympic Games in Athens .

In 2010 he took part in the soccer world championship . It was the second participation of the Greek national team in a finals of a world championship. Salpingidis scored the goal to make it 1-1 in the second preliminary round match against Nigeria . This was the first goal of a Greek national soccer team in a final round of a soccer world championship. At the opening game of the European Football Championship , Salpingidis scored the equalizer for the Greek team in the preliminary round in a 1-1 draw against co-hosts Poland.

At the 2014 World Cup in Brazil , Salpingidis made it to the round of 16 with Greece and was used in all four matches.

successes

Dimitris Salpigidis

• Greek champion : 2010
• Greek Cup Winner : 2003, 2010

Awards

• Greek League Top Scorer : 2006
• Top scorer in the Greek second division: 2002
• Footballer of the Year in Greece: 2008, 2009

Web links

• Dimitrios Salpingidis in the database of weltfussball.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ paokfc.gr: Salpingidis released of his contract (August 25, 2015)
2. ↑ Footballer of the Year → Greece weltfussball.de, accessed on June 8, 2012