Aris Tsachouridis

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Aris Tsachouridis
Personal information
Full name Aris Tsachouridis
Date of birth (1940-12-10) 10 December 1940 (age 83)
Place of birth Greece
Position(s) Forward
Youth career
–1959 PAO Diikitirio
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1959–1960 Makedonikos
1960–1964 AEK Athens 47 (12)
1964–1968 Proodeftiki
1968–1970 AO Koropi
1970–1971 Leonidas Sparta
International career
1962–1963 Greece military 7 (5)
1963 Greece 1 (0)
Medal record
Men's football
Representing  Greece
World Military Cup
Winner 1962
Winner 1963
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Aris Tsachouridis (Greek: Άρης Τσαχουρίδης; born 10 December 1940) is a former Greek professional footballer who played as a forward.

Club career[edit]

Tsachouridis started football at PAO Diikitirio and in 1959 he joined Makedonikos in Thessaloniki, where he played for a season before singing for AEK Athens in the summer of 1960.

With the yellow–blacks, he played for four seasons winning a championship in 1963 and a Greek Cup in 1964.[1] He scored his first goal with the club on 27 November 1960 in a 4–2 home win over Ethnikos Piraeus, while on 26 April 1961 he scored his team's only goal in the 5–1 away defeat in the hands of Fenerbahçe.[2] In the summer of 1964, Tsachouridis was transferred to Proodeftiki as an exchange for the acquisition of the defender, Fotis Balopoulos.[3]

At Proodeftiki, he competed for 4 another four seasons in the first division He then played for two years at AO Koropi,[4] winning the promotion in the second division in his first season and in the summer of 1970 he was released. He continued at Leonidas Sparta,[5] where he ended his football career in the summer of 1971.

International career[edit]

Tsachouridis was an executive of the Greek military team and he won the World Military Cup in 1962 and 1963.

Tsachouridis appeared once with Greece in 1963.[6] He did so on 22 May 1963 in a friendly 4–0 away defeat against Poland, under his former manager at AEK, Tryfon Tzanetis, he started the match being replaced by Leandros at half-time.[7]

After football[edit]

Tsachouridis was the main scout and the opponent's tactical analyst for AEK Athens in the staff of Dušan Bajević in the late 80's and in the 90's.[8] He is one of the founding members of the Veterans Association of AEK Athens and continuously participates in its events.[9][10]

Honours[edit]

AEK Athens

Greece military

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Ημιτελικός Παναθηναϊκός-Ολυμπιακός (διακοπή),ΑΕΚ Κυπελλούχος άνευ Τελικού αγώνα". sansimera.gr (in Greek). Retrieved 28 November 2018.
  2. ^ "Οι "τζέντλεμεν της ΑΕΚ" και το μπλακ άουτ ενός ημιχρόνου". aek365.org.
  3. ^ "Άρης Τσαχουρίδης". kitrinomavro.gr.
  4. ^ "WHO WAS TAKEN BY A.O. KOROPIOU", ef. Athletic Echo, 1 August 1970, p. 5
  5. ^ "TSACHOURIDIS, KREMMYDAS, CHRISTOPOULOS IN SPARTA", ef. Athletic Echo, 23 August 1970, p. 6
  6. ^ "Συμμετοχές και γκολ όλων των διεθνών (Τ-Φ)". 31 December 2009. Archived from the original on 2010-03-04.
  7. ^ "Greece matches 1961–1965" (PDF). epo.gr.
  8. ^ "Οι ευχές της ΑΕΚ στον Τσαχουρίδη". enwsi.gr (in Greek). Online. 10 December 2020.
  9. ^ "Ποντιακή γιορτή και με τους παλαίμαχους της ΑΕΚ στη Νέα Σινώπη Πρέβεζας" (in Greek). Online. 2 July 2015.
  10. ^ "Ερασιτεχνική ΑΕΚ: Νεστορίδης για πρόεδρος!". rodiaki.gr (in Greek). Online. 19 June 2011.