Ioannis Amanatidis

Ioannis Amanatidis
Ioannis Amanatidis in the Eintracht-Frankfurt-Museum (2010)
Personnel
birthday	3rd December 1981
place of birth	Kozani ,  Greece
size	183 cm
position	Storm
Juniors
Years	station
1991-1995	Stuttgarter SC
1995-1999	VfB Stuttgart
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1999-2004	VfB Stuttgart II	46 (15)
1999-2004	VfB Stuttgart	35 0(6)
2000-2002	→  SpVgg Greuther Fürth  (loan)	42 (12)
2004	→  Eintracht Frankfurt  (loan)	15 0(6)
2004-2005	1. FC Kaiserslautern	23 0(6)
2005-2011	Eintracht Frankfurt	140 (42)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2002-2010	Greece	42 (12)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
2016	Iraklis Thessaloniki U-20
2016	Iraklis Thessaloniki (interim)
1 Only league games are given.

Ioannis Amanatidis ( Greek Ιωάννης Αμανατίδης [ ˈʝanis amanaˈtiðis ]; born  December 3, 1981 in Kozani ) is a former Greek football player .

childhood

Amanatidis was born in Kozani . When he was nine years old, he moved to Stuttgart with his family .

Club career

Amanatidis joined the Stuttgarter SC in 1991 . In 1995 he moved to VfB Stuttgart as a C-youth .

For the 1999/00 season he played for VfB Stuttgart in the Regionalliga Süd; at the same time he was appointed several times in the Bundesliga squad of the first team of coach Ralf Rangnick , but had no operating times. In the following season Amanatidis played as a regular player in the regional league, but did not make it into the first team. In order to get match practice on a professional level, he switched to second division SpVgg Greuther Fürth on loan during the winter break of 2000/01. There he prevailed by forming a successful storm duo with Francis Kioyo . After another season with Fürth in the second division, promotion to the first division was narrowly missed at the end of the season; Amanatidis then returned to VfB Stuttgart in the summer of 2002. The striker has now earned himself a permanent place in the first team, he was used 27 times and scored 5 goals.

In the following season, his performances stagnated, he had fewer seasons than before. He moved to the Bundesliga club Eintracht Frankfurt in winter 2004 . At the end of the season he was relegated to the 2nd Bundesliga with the team; in the second half of the season he had scored six goals for Eintracht. He then signed with Bundesliga club 1. FC Kaiserslautern in order to switch to the meanwhile again promoted Eintracht from Frankfurt after one season on July 25, 2005. Amanatidis scored 12 times there in the 2005/2006 season and was among the top ten goalscorers (9th place). In the following season he managed to keep relegation again with Eintracht and reached the semi-finals of the DFB Cup . He was previously in the group stage with his team in the UEFA Cup .

From 2007 to 2009 Amanatidis was team captain of Eintracht Frankfurt under coach Friedhelm Funkel . He succeeded Jermaine Jones , who moved to FC Schalke 04 in the summer of 2007 .

In 2009, when Michael Skibbe was signed as the new Eintracht Frankfurt coach, a difficult time began for Amanatidis. First he lost his captain's armband and later, due to several injuries, also his regular place in the team. After he recovered, he was initially no longer placed in the first team. He complained about this in the media and also verbally attacked trainer Skibbe (“It's not based on the performance principle!”). He then excluded Amanatidis from training with the 1st team for an indefinite period in early February 2011. On February 17, 2011 Amanatidis was called back to the 18-man squad of the 1st team for the away game against 1. FC Nürnberg .

For the 2011/12 season Amanatidis was removed from the professional squad by the new coach Armin Veh and from then on trained with the second team. Amanatidis then threatened to take legal action by claiming his contractual right to "professional training" with the 1st team at Eintracht Frankfurt from the DFL. The training offered to him with the club's 2nd team, which was made up of U-23 players, was not part of the football club, which was spun off from the Eintracht Frankfurt club and where he was an employee due to his licensed player contract. His contract with Eintracht Frankfurt ran until June 30, 2012. On July 14, 2011, he therefore applied to the Labor Court of Frankfurt am Main for an “injunction against his employer, Eintracht Frankfurt Fußball AG,”. On July 18, 2011, the association announced that the contract with Amanatidis had been terminated and that both sides would no longer be in an employment relationship. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung then reported that Amanatidis had received "around two million euros" in severance payments from the association and had relocated the center of his life to Limassol , Cyprus.

His greatest successes in his time in the Bundesliga were the 2003 runner-up championship with VfB Stuttgart and reaching the 2006 DFB Cup final with Eintracht Frankfurt.

National team

Ioannis Amanatidis made his debut for the Greek national team, who had his strengths mainly in the header game and in his speed, against Ireland on November 20, 2002 .

On October 17, 2007, he scored his first goal for the national team in the European Championship qualifier to make it 0-1 in Turkey, which meant that Greece would also take part in the final round of the 2008 European Championship in Austria and Switzerland.

On August 9, 2010, the striker announced his immediate resignation from the national team after 42 games in the Greek national jersey. According to Amanatidis, he only wanted to concentrate on his sporting activities at his former club, Eintracht Frankfurt.

Trainer

In the summer of 2016, Amanatidis was hired as a U-20 coach by the club Iraklis Thessaloniki . In the same year he trained as an interim coach for the first team for two weeks. After Greek football was hit by allegations of manipulation, it decided to leave the club with immediate effect. Then he devoted himself to training as a football teacher .

Since the beginning of 2019 he has been working as an assistant coach for the Swiss club FC St. Gallen , which plays in the Super League , the highest Swiss division, under head coach Peter Zeidler .

Amanatidis and the Bild newspaper

At the end of 2007, the Bild newspaper spread across Germany the allegations of a car driver that Amanatidis had slapped her in the face of a traffic dispute in Frankfurt. Amanatidis denied this and the prosecution's investigations into him were later dropped. Instead, the woman who, according to her statement, received a “reader-reporter” fee from the Bild newspaper, was investigated on the basis of false accusations.

Amanatidis was later quoted in the Frankfurter Rundschau about the reporting against him: "I'm angry with this dirty paper (...) that puts this shit into the world." When asked whether it makes sense to mess with the newspaper, he replied: “I don't care. I am not afraid of these people. What do you expect from a paper that by and large only writes dirt and pays so much attention to such a person. "

Fashion designer

In 2011 Amanatidis founded his own fashion label called iam exposure .

Web links

• Official website
• iam.exposure
• Ioannis Amanatidis in the database of weltfussball.de
• Ioannis Amanatidis in the database of fussballdaten.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Amanatidis does not play a role for the time being ( Memento from July 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ); on eintracht.de
2. ^ With Amanatidis to Franconia ( Memento from May 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive ); on eintracht.de
3. ↑ Amanatidis ends the chapter Eintracht ; kicker.de. Retrieved July 18, 2011.
4. ↑ Amanatidis migrates to Cyprus from FAZ from August 25, 2011, accessed on June 9, 2012
5. ↑ All championships suspended in Greece , accessed on December 18, 2016
6. ↑ Note in a detailed interview “It's a vicious circle”: in kicker-sportmagazin of November 21, 2016, p. 88 f
7. ^ [1] Homepage of FC St. Gallen
8. ^ Frank Hellmann, Georg Leppert: Amanatidis denies blow ; in: Frankfurter Rundschau of December 6, 2007
9. ↑ Eintracht striker Amanatidis: "My conscience is pure" ; in: Frankfurter Rundschau of December 7, 2007