Yourkas Seitaridis

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Georgios "Giourkas" Seitaridis (Greek: Γιούρκας Σειταρίδης) born June 4, 1981 in Athens), also known as Giourkas Seitaridis (Giourkas means "George" in Greek Pontic dialect) is his grandfather's name, which he uses in both national team and Atlético Madrid shirts), is a member of the national football team of his country, Greece. Seitaridis is one of the few youngsters in the Greek squad. More importantly, he was one of the few youngsters who shone at the 2004 European Championship. He used to play at PAS Giannina (until 2001) and Panathinaikos FC in Greece, but signed with Portuguese side and then Champions League winner FC Porto, after constant rumours about a possible change of course to Real Madrid, following his success at Euro 2004. Seitaridis had a great tournament at Portugal, leading some to even comment that he was the player of the tournament. UEFA did indeed recognize his contribution to Greece's success and named him as part of the 23-man UEFA All-Star squad, together with four other Greek players. On May 23, 2005 he was sold to Russian side Dynamo Moscow for a fee approaching £7m.

On May 31, 2006 he was transferred to Atlético Madrid for a transfer fee of 12 million euros.

Seitaridis usually plays as a right-back but can move into the position of a right midfielder or even as a center-back, if so required by the team formation implemented. He played his first game for Greece on February 13, 2002 against Sweden, and later that year participated in the 2002 UEFA European Under-21 Championship final round in Switzerland.

	Greece squad - UEFA EURO 2004
1 Nikopolidis | 2 Giourkas | 3 Venetidis | 4 Dabizas | 5 Dellas | 6 Basinas | 7 Zagorakis | 8 Giannakopoulos | 9 Charisteas | 10 Tsiartas | 11 Nikolaidis | 12 Chalkias | 13 Katergiannakis | 14 Fyssas | 15 Vryzas | 16 Kafes | 17 Georgiadis | 18 Goumas | 19 Kapsis | 20 Karagounis | 21 Katsouranis | 22 Papadopoulos | 23 Lakis | Coach: Rehhagel