Antonis Antoniadis

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Born in 1945, Antonis Antoniadis is one of the great goal scorers of the Greek football era after the "war" years, scoring about 1.480 goals in 22 years of career. He started his career playing for Xanthi and then moved on to Panathinaikos. Antoniadis scored his first official goal with Panathinaikos on the 27th of October 1968 in the game against Apollon Athens which ended in a victory for Panathinaikos with 1-0.

He scored 187 goals in 242 matches of the Greek Championship, and held the crown of first scorer five times: 1970 with 25 goals, 1972 with 39 goals (second in Europe), 1973 with 22 goals, 1974 with 26 goals, and 1975 with 20 goals. In 1971 when Panathinaikos reached the final in Wembley for the Champions Cup he was the top scorer of the tournament with 10 goals.

Summer of 1978 he was traded to Olympiakos with whom he stayed for one season, playing in 13 games and scoring 7 goals. He later went on to play for Atromitos Athens. In 1980 before he retired and became president of PSAP he went full circle and returned to Panathinaikos. Very good using his head as well as he had a strong shot. He has 21 appearances and 6 goals with the Greek national team in the period of 1970-1977.