Lakis Nikolaou

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Lakis Nikolaou
Personal information
Full name	Pantelis Nikolaou
Date of birth	July 17, 1949 (1949-07-17) (age 58)
Place of birth
Playing position	Centre Back
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
	AEK Athens
National team
1973–	Greece	15
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Pantelis "Lakis" Nikolaou is a retired Greek football defender.

[edit] Club career

He played mainly for AEK Athens forming a powerful defending duo with Petros Ravousis.

[edit] International career

He made his debut for Greece on September 8, 1973 and played a total of 15 games. He was a participant at the 1980 UEFA European Football Championship.

[edit] Other activities

Lakis studied medicine while still being a professional footballer and managed to become a successful medicine professor and surgeon (with speciality in orthopedics). He later became doctor of AEK Athens and now of Olympiakos On October 13, 1997 he became AEK Athens' thirty fifth president, serving from 1997 until 1998.

Preceded by Alexis Kougias

Chairman of AEK Athens 1997–1998

Succeeded by Konstantinos Generakis