Kostas Polychroniou

Kostas Polychroniou
Personnel
birthday	November 12, 1936
place of birth	Platanistos ,  Greece
date of death	June 1, 2018
position	midfield
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1954-1968	Olympiacos Piraeus	305 (38)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1957-1967	Greece	27 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1979-1980	AE Larisa
1981-1982	AS Rhodes
1982-1983	Doxa Dramas
1984	Apollon Smyrni
1987	APO Levadiakos
1993-1994	Olympiacos Piraeus
1994-1998	Greece
1999	Ionikos Nikea
2001	Paniliakos FC
1 Only league games are given.

Kostas Polychroniou ( Greek Κώστας Πολυχρονίου ; born November 12, 1936 in Platanistos , Euboea ; † June 1, 2018 ) was a Greek football player and football coach or team manager .

Life

Polychronious parents moved him to Athens as a toddler . He spent all of his active football days from 1954 to 1968 at Olympiacos, from the age of 18 . With Olympiacos he was able to celebrate seven Greek championships and nine cup wins. In addition, there were five titles as champions of Piraeus and a win in the Balkan Cup .

A particular highlight of his time at Olympiacos was a 2-1 win in a friendly against FC Santos in 1961 with Pelé as an opponent. At the end of their European tour, the Brazilians may have been exhausted, but they had previously beaten AEK Athens 3-0 and Panathinaikos 3-2.

Polychroniou was appointed to the Greek national football team a total of 27 times between 1957 and 1967.

As a football coach he worked from 1979 to 2001, including as national coach from 1994 to 1998. With the exception of AS Rhodos and FC Paniliakos , the clubs he was in charge of were all on the Greek mainland. In the 1993/94 season, when he looked after his home club Olympiacos, the neighbor AEK Athens became champions. In his balance as national coach there are 17 wins, 5 defeats and ten draws.

Palmarès

• 7 Greek championship titles : 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1966 and 1967
• 9 Greek Cup wins : 1954, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1963, 1965 and 1968
• 5 Piraeus championships: 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958 and 1959
• 1 Balkan Cup : 1963

Web links

• Τι κάνει σήμερα ο Κώστας Πολυχρονίου? - "What is Kostas Polychroniou doing today?"
• Kostas Polychroniou on eu-football.info

Individual evidence

1. ^ Greek Football Mourns Death of Kostas Polychroniou. In: greekreporter.com. June 1, 2018, accessed June 6, 2018 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ http://www.rsssf.com/miscellaneous/grk-coach.html