Petros Mantalos

Petros Mantalos
Petros Mantalos (2017)
Personnel
birthday	August 31, 1991
place of birth	Komotini ,  Greece
size	176 cm
position	Attacking midfielder
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2009-2014	Skoda Xanthi	81 (12)
2014–	AEK Athens	104 (22)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
	Greece U-19	8 0(2)
2011–2012	Greece U-21	6 0(0)
2014–	Greece	23 0(2)
1 Only league games are given. As of October 1, 2019 2 As of October 1, 2019

Petros Mantalos ( Greek Πέτρος Μάνταλος * August 31, 1991 in Komotini ) is a Greek football player on the position of attacking midfielder . He is currently under contract with AEK Athens in his home country .

Career

society

Mantalos began his career at Skoda Xanthi , where he rose from the youth team to the professional squad in 2009. There he was soon able to establish himself and aroused the interest of the larger Greek clubs through good performances. In 2014, the forced relegation and therefore playing in the second Greek league signed AEK Athens Mantalos for a transfer fee of € 500,000. In his league debut for Athens, he scored one goal in the 2-1 win against Apollon Smyrnis on October 19, 2014 and prepared the other goal. With eight goals scored and eleven prepared goals in 15 league games, he made a significant contribution to the fact that Athens was able to return to the first Greek league as second division champions at the end of the season, even if he failed with a cruciate ligament rupture towards the end of the season. As a result, after his recovery, Mantalos re-established himself in the Athens attacking midfield and was named captain of the team. In 2016 he won the Greek Football Cup with AEK and scored a goal himself in the 2-1 win in the final against Olympiacos . In 2017 he was voted Greece's Footballer of the Year. In the 2017/18 season, Mantalos suffered another cruciate ligament rupture on matchday 9 in the game against Panionios Athens and was out for most of the season. He only made his comeback on matchday 28, but was able to celebrate winning the championship with AEK. Mantalos was able to compete with AEK in the following 2018/19 Champions League season , but was eliminated from Group E without a point after two defeats each against FC Bayern Munich , Ajax Amsterdam and Benfica Lisbon .

National team

Mantalos initially played for the Greek U-19 and U-21 national teams . On September 7, 2014, he made his debut for the Greek national soccer team in the 1-0 defeat in the European Championship qualifier against Romania . He scored his first international goal in a 2-1 win in the friendly against Australia on June 7, 2016.

Web links

Commons : Petros Mantalos  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Petros Mantalos in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Petros Mantalos in the database of weltfussball.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Match report on transfermarkt.de, accessed on October 1, 2019.
2. ↑ AEK Athens cup winners for the 15th time on transfermarkt.de, accessed on October 1, 2019.
3. ↑ Statistics on weltfussball.at, accessed on October 1, 2019.
4. ↑ Match report on transfermarkt.de, accessed on October 1, 2019.
5. ↑ Match report on transfermarkt.de, accessed on October 1, 2019.