Stelios Giannakopoulos

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Stelios Giannakopoulos
Personal information
Full name	Stylianos Giannakopoulas
Date of birth	July 12, 1974 (age 32)
Place of birth	Athens, Greece
Playing position	Midfielder
Club information
Current club	Bolton Wanderers
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1992-1993 1993-1996 1996-2003 2003-Present	Ethnikos Asteras Paniliakos Olympiakos Bolton Wanderers	032 0(6) 084 (26) 189 (63) 113 (18)
National team2
1997-	Greece	061 (12)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 16:17, 21 January 2007 (UTC). 2 National team caps and goals correct as of 31/08/2006. * Appearances (Goals)

Stylianos Giannakopoulos (Greek: Στυλιανός Γιαννακόπουλος), popularly known as Stelios (born July 12, 1974 in Athens, Greece), is a Greek football player who currently plays for Bolton Wanderers as a midfielder.

He initially started in his homeland of Greece, spending his first playing season with Ethnikos Asteras. Having been thrust immediately into first-team action, he found himself scoring six goals in his opening season, before moving to Paniliakos, where, in the three years he spent there, he scored 26 goals in 84 games. Olympiacos CFP soon were after his signature.

However, after seven years playing in Greece he was snapped up by Bolton Wanderers. Having made his Bolton début in a 4–0 defeat to Manchester United F.C., and, growing in confidence, he was one of the players selected for the Greek national team which were victorious in the 2004 European Football Championship. One of his most important goals with the Greek national team was against Spain in La Romareda (home of Real Zaragoza), in a EURO 2004 qualifier. He scored the winning goal against Arsenal in an FA Cup Fourth round match played at the Reebok Stadium on January 28, 2006.

Stelios also has the distinction of being part of the substitution that holds the record of the largest difference between the number of letters in the surnames of two players in a Premiership substitution. This occurred when he replaced Ibrahim Ba during a league game for Bolton Wanderers on February 7, 2004.

[edit] External links

• Stelios Giannakopoulos career stats at Soccerbase

	Greece squad - UEFA EURO 2004 Champions
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

Bolton Wanderers F.C. - Current Squad
1 Al Habsi | 2 Hunt | 4 Nolan | 5 Méïté | 6 Speed | 7 Stelios | 8 Campo | 9 Pedersen | 11 Gardner | 12 Walker | 14 Davies | 15 Thompson | 16 Andranik | 17 Fortune | 21 Diouf | 22 Jääskeläinen | 23 Tal | 24 O'Brien | 25 Faye | 26 Ben Haim | 27 César | 29 Harsányi | 31 Sinclair | 39 Anelka | 41 Fojut | 46 Jamieson | Manager: Allardyce