Yves Triantafilos

Yves Triantafilos
Personnel
birthday	October 27, 1948
place of birth	Montbrison ,  France
size	178 cm
position	striker
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1966-1967	AS Saint-Etienne	1 0(0)
1967-1969	Joinville Battalion	28 (16)
1969-1971	US Boulogne	55 (33)
1971-1974	Olympiacos Piraeus	90 (58)
1974-1975	AS Saint-Etienne	35 (13)
1975-1977	FC Nantes	31 0(9)
1978	FC Rouen	10 0(1)
1978-1980	GS Kallithea	55 (30)
1980-1982	AS Roanne	47 (16)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1975	France	1 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.

Yves Triantafilos (born October 27, 1948 in Montbrison ) is a former French football player .

As a player in the club

Entry into professional football (1966–1969)

Triantafilos, whose father came from Istanbul , Turkey , and fled there because of his Greek ethnicity, grew up in the village of Sail-sous-Couzon in the Loire department . As a youth, the striker was trained at AS Saint-Étienne and made the leap into the club's first division squad in the 1966/67 season. Coach Jean Snella particularly appreciated the ball handling and the header game of the then 18-year-old and let him come to his debut in the national league on February 19, 1967 in an encounter against FC Rouen . Although it remained at this single mission, thanks to this he officially belonged to the French championship team in 1967, as his teammates were able to assert themselves against all competitors. Thus, at the age of only 18, he had won his first national title.

In the summer of 1967 he moved to the vicinity of the capital Paris to do his military service in the army. He was loaned to the second division battalion Joinville , which was a military team of the battalion to which he belonged. Although he was not continuously seeded in the second division, he achieved a remarkable hit rate and hit the goal thirteen times in 1968/69. Nevertheless, his return to Saint-Étienne in 1969 did not materialize because the new coach Albert Batteux did not see him as a useful addition to his team.

Success as a goal scorer and move to Greece (1969–1974)

Since he had no prospects at Saint-Étienne, he went to the second division US Boulogne in 1969 , where he immediately received a place in the first team. After he had already indicated his qualities as a goalscorer at Joinville, he scored 14 and 19 times for Boulogne in his two years there. The latter was enough at the end of the 1970/71 season to top the scorers list in the northern group of the tripartite league. This piqued the interest of various French clubs in the summer of 1971, but Triantafilos decided in favor of a club from his father's home country by moving to the Greek first division club Olympiacos Piraeus . Due to the legal situation in Greece at that time, he was only entitled to play for the club because of his father's Greek origin. He spent three years at Olympiakos and had the best time of his career with 19, 16 and most recently 23 goals in terms of his goalscoring results. In addition, he won the championship twice in a row with the team in 1973 and 1974 and also won the national cup competition in 1973.

First division player in France (1974–1978)

In 1974 Triantafilos returned after seven years of absence to Saint-Étienne, where he initially sat under coach Robert Herbin in the role of a "noble joker" mostly on the bench and Georges Bereta and the brothers Hervé Revelli and Patrick Revelli had to give way. From this reservist role he was able to write history on November 6, 1974 when he was substituted on against Hajduk Split in the quarter-finals of the European Cup and scored two goals that were enough to advance; in the semifinals, however, his team was eliminated. The following winter Bereta went to Olympique Marseille , which he was able to occupy a permanent place again. However, he was unable to take on a role as a star player that he had earned at Piraeus through his many goals. During the 1974/75 season he scored eleven goals and contributed to winning the championship. In addition, the team won the cup, even if the final took place without his participation and he therefore had no direct share in winning the trophy. In October 1975 he left the club and signed with league rivals FC Nantes . His former colleagues from Saint-Étienne became champions in 1976 and because he had still belonged to the team at the beginning of the season, he was also part of the championship eleven. In 1977 he won the championship with his new employer Nantes, but had previously lost his regular place and had not made more than five games in the championship season, in which he also remained goalless. At the turn of the year 1977/78 he moved to first division rivals FC Rouen in view of his lack of prospects at Nantes .

Final years (1978–1982)

In Rouen at the beginning of 1978 he tried again to break through with a first division club, which he did not succeed in the long term. To do this, he had to accept relegation as bottom of the table before he left the club in the summer of 1978. He went to Greece one more time, where he was signed by second division club GS Kallithea . In this he was able to build on his successes as a goalscorer, which was expressed in 18 hits during the 1978/79 season. In 1980 he moved back to France, where he wore the jersey of a third division club from Roanne until 1982. Triantafilos played 77 first division games with 23 goals and 83 second division games with 49 goals in France and 90 first division games with 58 goals and 55 second division games with 30 goals in Greece. In France he won the championship four times, which he managed twice in Greece; in addition there is a win of the Greek Cup.

National team

In the early stages of his career, he was a French youth international and was voted the team's best player after a tournament in Istanbul. He was also a member of the Olympic team that took part in the 1968 Olympic football tournament for France . However, he was not used. Triantafilos was 26 years old when he played for the French national team for the first time on March 26, 1975 in a friendly 2-0 win against Hungary . After that, he did not come to any further use.

Life outside of football

Triantafilos was married first to a French woman and later to a Romanian woman whom he had met in Athens. The second marriage was divorced in November 1984. Most recently he married a pharmacist in France. After the end of his professional career, he did not take on any other function in football and instead worked in a real estate agency from 1984. At times he was also the owner of a pub.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Yves Triantafilos ( Memento from February 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), afterfoot.fr
2. ↑ ^{a b c} TRIANTAFILOS Yves , anciensverts.com
3. ^ Yves Triantafilos , national-football-teams.com
4. ↑ jeux Olympiques Mexique 1968 , selectiona.free.fr
5. ↑ Joueur - Yves TRIANTAFILOS , fff.fr
6. ↑ Yves Triantafilos complete profile ( Memento from March 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), soccerdatabase.eu