Constantinos Charalambidis

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Costas Charalambides
Personal information
Full nameConstantinos Charalambides
Date of birth (1981-07-25) July 25, 1981
Place of birthNicosia, Cyprus
Height1.72 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in)[1]
Playing positionMidfielder
Club information
Current clubAPOEL
Number10
Youth career
APOEL
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps†(Gls)†
1997–2004APOEL101(25)
2004–2007Panathinaikos44(1)
2006→ PAOK (loan)16(1)
2007–2008Carl Zeiss Jena12(1)
2008–APOEL168(34)
National team‡
2003–Cyprus[2]73(11)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 5 February 2014.

† Appearances (Goals).

‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 11 October 2013

Costas Charalambides (Greek: Κώστας Χαραλαμπίδης) (born July 25, 1981 in Nicosia) is a Cypriot football midfielder currently playing for APOEL in the Cypriot First Division.

Club career

He began his career on 1998–99 season with Cypriot club APOEL where he became a regular, appearing 122 times, and helped lead them to two championship titles on 2002 and 2004. He also won one Cup on 1999 and two Super Cups on 2002 and 2004.

He then signed a two-and-a-half-year contract with Panathinaikos FC in the middle the 2004–05 season. Charalambides would make a total of 44 league appearances for Panathinaikos, but in the summer of 2007 the club chose not to renew his contract. In his final season with Panathinaikos, Charalambides spent the first six months of the season on loan to PAOK, where he made 16 league appearances and scored one goal.

In the summer of 2007, Charalambides spent time on trial at English Championship side Cardiff City but eventually signed with German club FC Carl Zeiss Jena, playing in the 2. Bundesliga for the 2007–08 season.

In the first half of the 2007–08 season, Charalambides featured regularly for Carl Zeiss Jena, making 10 starts and 12 total appearances and scoring one goal, but in January 2008 he and the relegation-bound club agreed it was better for both the player and the club to part ways, and the contract was mutually terminated.

Not long thereafter, APOEL managed to lure Charalambides back to Cyprus to again play for his former team, and on January 27 he signed a four-year contract with APOEL.[3] Since then he won 2007–08 Cypriot Cup, 2008–09 Cypriot First Division and also Cypriot Super Cup 2008 and 2009 with APOEL. He also appeared in five official 2009–10 UEFA Champions League group stage matches with APOEL. The next year he won the 2010–11 Cypriot First Division adding another championship title to his honours list. The following season he appeared in nine 2011–12 UEFA Champions League matches for APOEL and provided three assists to his teammates, in the club's surprising run to the quarter-finals of the competition. The next season he won again the 2012–13 Cypriot First Division, which was his 5th league title in his career with APOEL.

International career

Charalambides has been an important player for the Cypriot national team in recent years. He scored twice in their famous 5–2 win over the Republic of Ireland in the Euro 2008 qualifiers in October 2006, and also scored in their 3–1 win over Wales during the same campaign. The midfielder also scored twice in Cyprus' 4–1 win over Bulgaria in a World Cup qualifying match in October 2009.

Trivia

He is known for doing a flip when he scores a goal.

Honours

APOEL

References

  1. ↑ "10 Κωνσταντίνος Χαραλαμπίδης" (in Greek). APOEL F.C. Retrieved March 13, 2012. 
  2. ↑ Mamrud, Roberto (February 29, 2012). "Cyprus – Record International Players". rsssf.com. Retrieved April 8, 2012. 
  3. ↑ "Υπογραφή συμβολαίου Κωνσταντίνου Χαραλαμπίδη" [Kostas Charalambides Signed Contract] (in Greek). APOEL F.C. January 27, 2008. Retrieved April 8, 2012. 

External links

APOEL F.C. – current squad
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